The Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver is installed on the computer where your applications are running. ODBC applications access ODBC drivers through the ODBC Driver Manager and a data source. The data source tells the Driver Manager which ODBC driver to load and pass connection details to. This chapter describes how to create data sources, use DSN-less connections and configure the Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver.
Before setting up a data source, you must have successfully installed the Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver.
For Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver installation instructions, see Installation.
This section describes how to configure the Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver to retrieve Google Analytics data by using a data source or a DSN-less connection string.
There are two ways to set up a data source to your Google Analytics data:
By default, the Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver installation creates a SYSTEM data source named [GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_SAMPLE]. If you are using the unixODBC included in the Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver distribution, the SYSTEM odbc.ini file is in /etc.
If you built unixODBC yourself, or installed it from some other source, SYSTEM data sources are stored in the path specified with the configure option --sysconfdir=directory. If sysconfdir was not specified when unixODBC was configured and built, it defaults to /usr/local/etc.
If you accepted the default choices when installing the Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver, USER data sources must be created and edited in $HOME/.odbc.ini.
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To display the directory where unixODBC stores SYSTEM and USER data sources, type odbcinst -j. By default, you must be logged in as root to edit a SYSTEM data source defined in /etc/odbc.ini. |
You can either edit the sample data source or create new data sources.
Each section of the odbc.ini file starts with a data source name in square brackets [ ] followed by a number of attribute=value pairs.
The Driver attribute identifies the ODBC driver in the odbcinst.ini file to use for a data source.
When the Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver is installed into unixODBC, it places an Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics entry in odbcinst.ini. For Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver data sources therefore, you need to include a Driver = Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics entry.
To configure a Google Analytics data source, in your odbc.ini file, you need to specify:
Driver = Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics
refresh_token = /home/myuser/Quickstart-cb43e1f66976.json
The Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver must be able to find the following shared objects, which are installed during the Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver installation:
By default, this is located in /usr/local/easysoft/unixODBC/lib.
By default, this is located in /usr/local/easysoft/lib.
By default, this is located in /usr/local/easysoft/lib.
You may need to set and export LD_LIBRARY_PATH, SHLIB_PATH or LIBPATH (depending on your operating system and run-time linker) to include the directories where libodbcinst.so, libeslicshr.so and libessupp.so are located.
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The shared object file extension (.so) may vary depending on the operating system (.so, .a or .sl). |
The isql query tool lets you test your Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver data sources.
To test the Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver connection
1. Change directory into /usr/local/easysoft/unixODBC/bin.
2. Type ./isql.sh -v data_source, where data_source is the name of the target data source.
3. At the prompt, type an SQL query. For example:
Type help to return a list of tables:
To connect an ODBC application on a Windows machine to Google Analytics database:
1. Open ODBC Data Source Administrator:
The ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box is displayed:
2. Select the User DSN tab to set up a data source that only you can access.
Select the System DSN tab to create a data source which is available to anyone who logs on to this Windows machine.
3. Click Add... to add a new data source.
The Create New Data Source dialog box displays a list of drivers:
4. Select Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver and click Finish.
The Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver DSN Setup dialog box is displayed:
For details of the attributes that can be set on this dialog box, see Attribute Fields.
You need to have created a Google Service Account and enabled the Google Analytics API. For more information, see:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/data/v1/quickstart-client-libraries
Download the Service Account key to the machine where you want to install the Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver. The key needs to be in JSON format.
This section lists the attributes which can be set for the Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver in a table showing:
Attributes which are text fields are displayed as value.
Attributes which are logical fields can contain either 0 (to set to off) or 1 (to set to on) and are displayed as "0|1". If an attribute can contain one of several specific values then each possible entry is displayed and separated by a pipe symbol. For example, in the statement: DIALECT=1|2|3 the value entered may be "1", "2" or "3".
The name of the User or System data source to be created, as used by the application when calling the SQLConnect or SQLDriverConnect functions
Descriptive text that may be retrieved by certain applications to describe the data source
The Google Service Account Key file (.json). For example, C:\Temp\Quickstart-cb43e1f66976.json. For more information about enabling the Google Analytics API and accessing this API with a Service Account, see: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/data/v1/quickstart-client-libraries
If you use a proxy server connect to the internet, use the Proxy attribute to specify this server's details. The Proxy attribute has the following format: http://address:port
where addess is the host name or IP address of the proxy server and port is the proxy server port. For example, http://squid.example.com:8080
If your proxy server has authentication enabled, use this attribute to supply a user name that can connect to the proxy server.
The Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver supports the Basic and Digest proxy authentication schemes.
The password for the user you specified with Proxy User.
Whether you can use the Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver to update your Google Analytics data via the Management API. By default, Allow Updates is OFF (set to NO), which means you can use the Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver to retrieve Google Analytics data via the Core Reporting API.
In addition to using a data source, you can also connect to a database by using a DSN-less connection string of the form:
SQLDriverConnect(..."DRIVER={Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics};SAKeyFile=/home/myuser/Quickstart-cb43e1f66976.json"...)
You need to use the Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics DRIVER keyword to identify the Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver.
Other Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver attribute settings, as described in Setting Up Data Sources on Unix, can be added to the connection string using the same PARAMETER=value; format.
The Easysoft ODBC-Google-Analytics Driver distribution includes a number of definition files (.def) that expose Google Analytics data as tables. For example, MobileTraffic.def, which enables you to work with this Google Analytics data subset by using SQL:
The default location for the definition files on 64-bit Windows is:
drive:\Program Files (x86)\Easysoft Limited\Easysoft Google Analytics ODBC Driver\Definitions
The default location for the definition files on 32-bit Windows is:
drive:\Program Files\Easysoft Limited\Easysoft Google Analytics ODBC Driver\Definitions
The default location for the definition files on Linux and UNIX is:
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