Accessing Navision Database

pehawege

Dear All,
I am very much new about Navision. Therefore, I must sincerely apologized if in case I ask silly question. Please help and guide me to the right Topic Discussion in order to get help for my issue.

I am going to use Navision 2009 R2, but not yet fully implemented. I try to explore the possibility to access the database from other tools, such as Power Builder.
Some of the document I read, mentioning that I need to install NODBC driver. But I don't know from where I could get this driver. I don't know yet whether I am going to get it from the vendor/partner. Is it something that I will get it eventually or I need to buy it separately from the vendor?

If I need to find it by myself, download it, from which website I could download it, and which version?

One last question, if I am going to explore NAV database using SQL Server 2008 (or greater), all I need is the user login and password from the vendor/partner, right ?

Thanks in advance...

Peter

einsTeIn.NET

The NODBC driver is available on your product dvd.

pehawege

If I don't have the NODBC driver yet, am I able to access the database with some other way?

If I want to access the database with SQL Server, then I need to ask the partner about the user login and pass to the database, don't I?

How to connect to the database (name.fdb) ? Is it possible to connect to it?

bbrown

Is the database running under SQL or the native engine? That will determine how you access it. N/ODBC is for the native DB engine only. For SQL, you'd use standard SQL methods.