Odbc Text Driver Download
Info, examples and downloads for Microsoft Text ODBC Driver. Connection string options and links to more detailed resources.
Jun 22, 2014 The primary documentation for both the Microsoft Excel and Text ODBC drivers is the Microsoft Desktop Database Drivers Help file, invoked from the Help.
The ODBC Text driver supports both delimited and fixed-width text files. A text file consists of an optional header line and zero or more text lines.
Although the header line uses the same format as the other lines in the text file, the ODBC Text driver interprets the header line entries as column names, not data.
A delimited text line contains one or more data values separated by delimiters: commas, tabs, or a custom delimiter. The same delimiter must be used throughout the file. Null data values are denoted by two delimiters in a row with no data between them. Character strings in a delimited text line can be enclosed in double quotation marks . No blanks can occur before or after delimited values.
The width of each data entry in a fixed-width text line is specified in a schema. Null data values are denoted by blanks.
Tables are limited to a maximum of 255 fields. Field names are limited to 64 characters, and field widths are limited to 32,766 characters. Records are limited to 65,000 bytes.
A text file can be opened only for a single user. Multiple users are not supported.
The following grammar, written for programmers, defines the format of a text file that can be read by the ODBC text driver:
Format
Representation
Non-italics
Characters that must be entered as shown
italics
Arguments that are defined elsewhere in the grammar
brackets
Optional items
braces
A list of mutually exclusive choices
vertical bars
Separate mutually exclusive choices
ellipses
Items that can be repeated one or more times
The format of a text file is:
text-file ::
delimited-header-line delimited-text-line end-of-file
fixed-width-header-line fixed-width-text-line end-of-file
delimited-header-line :: delimited-text-line
delimited-text-line ::
blank-line
delimited-data delimiter delimited-data end-of-line
fixed-width-header-line :: fixed-width-text-line
fixed-width-text-line ::
fixed-width-data fixed-width-data end-of-line
end-of-file ::
blank-line :: end-of-line
delimited-data :: delimited-string number date delimited-null
fixed-width-data :: fixed-width-string number date fixed-width-null
Note
The width of each column in a fixed-width text file is specified in the Schema.ini file.
end-of-line ::
delimited-string :: unquoted-string quoted-stringunquoted-string :: character digit character digit quote-character
quoted-string ::
quote-character
character digit delimiter end-of-line embedded-quoted-string
quote-characterembedded-quoted-string :: quote-characterquote-character
character digit delimiter end-of-line
quote-characterquote-characterfixed-width-string :: character digit delimiter quote-character
character :: any character except:
delimiterdigitend-of-fileend-of-linequote-characterdigit :: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
delimiter :: ,
custom-delimitercustom-delimiter :: any character except:
end-of-fileend-of-linequote-character
The delimiter in a custom-delimited text file is specified in the Schema.ini file.
quote-character ::
number :: exact-number approximate-number
exact-number :: - unsigned-integer. unsigned-integer
unsigned-integer.
. unsigned-integer
approximate-number :: exact-number e E - unsigned-integer
unsigned-integer :: digit
date ::
mm date-separator dd date-separator yy
mmm date-separator dd date-separator yy
dd date-separator mmm date-separator yy
yyyy date-separator mm date-separator dd
yyyy date-separator mmm date-separator dd
mm :: digit digit
dd :: digit digit
yy :: digit digit
yyyy :: digit digit digit digit
mmm :: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
date-separator :: - / .
delimited-null ::
For delimited files, a NULL is represented by no data between two delimiters.
fixed-width-null ::
For fixed-width files, a NULL is represented by spaces.
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Microsoft Text Driver ... how to obtain
The ODBC Text driver supports both delimited and fixed-width text files. A text file consists of an optional header line and zero or more text lines.
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Hi Gordon,
I believe the Microsoft Text driver was a windows driver that was included with Jet.Since these Jet components are all 32 bit components if your application is running as a 64 bit application on a 64 bit OS, it most likely won t have visibility into these drivers by default.To ensure it has visibility into the 32 bit drivers on any 64 or 32 bit machine, I would recommend compiling it specifically as a 32 bit application x86.
With that being said, the 64 bit Ace driver does include a 64 bit text driver.The problem is this ACE driver is not a replacement for these Jet drivers and is only intended to be used in specific scenarios.The article below lists these scenarios:
Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable -
en id 13255
In addition to this, if you install the 64 bit ACE components onto your machine, you can no longer use any 32 bit Office products on the machine.That would include 32 bit Office 2010 and any other legacy Office versions since they are all 32 bit. The reason for this is because these ACE components are Office components and we don t support mixed bit platforms of Office on the same machine.
2269468You receive the error You cannot install the 64-bit version of Office 2010 because you have 32-bit Office products installed.
kb;EN-US;2269468
Best Regards,
Nathan O.
Microsoft Online Community Support
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