ODBC Driver for Zoho Billing

Connection String Parameters - ODBC Driver for Zoho Billing


Zoho Billing ODBC Connection String Parameters

The following table lists the connection string parameters for Zoho Billing.

Parameter Description

Data Center

The location of your Zoho Billing data center to connect to.

Organization Id

A numeric id of the organization to connect to.

Refresh Token

The renewed access token. Sign in with Zoho Billing to have the renewed token assigned automatically.

Proxy Settings

Proxy Server

The proxy hostname or IP address.

Proxy User ID

The proxy server account ID.

Proxy Password

The proxy password.

Port

The proxy port.

Advanced Settings

Allow NULL Strings

To retrieve metadata, not all parameters according to MSDN can accept a null value. If NULL, the driver should return an error. But some 3rd-party tools pass NULL to the parameters. These options should be enabled for compatibility with such tools.

Empty Strings as NULL

Connection Timeout

The time (in seconds) to wait for a connection to open before terminating an attempt. The default value is 60.

ODBC Behavior

 Used to set the behavior corresponding to the ODBC specification version that a third-party tool expects. The behavior of ODBC driver can be changed by setting a value for the SQL_ATTR_ODBC_VERSION attribute by calling the SQLSetEnvAttr function. But some third-party tools expect the driver to exhibit ODBC 2.x behavior, but forget to call SQLSetEnvAttr with the specified version or pass an incorrect value there. In this case, the required behavior can be explicitly specified in the Connection String by setting the ODBC Behavior parameter. The possible values are:
  • Default - default ODBC behavior determined by a third-party tool.
  • Ver 2.x - ODBC 2.x behavior is explicitly set.
  • Ver 3.x - ODBC 3.x behavior is explicitly set.

RegionalNumberSettings

Enables the use of local regional settings when converting numbers to strings.

RegionalDateTimeSettings

Enables the use of local regional settings when converting dates and times to strings.

ReturnForeignKeys

Use the option to specify whether the driver must return foreign keys. Retrieving metadata about foreign key constraints is a time-consuming operation; many third-party tools request foreign key metadata even whey they do not actually need this information. Note, that enabling the option may degrade performance of data access operations. The default value is False.

String Types

 Sets the string value types returned by the driver as Default, Ansi or Unicode.
  • Default - the driver defines the string types.
  • Ansi - all string types will be returned as SQL_CHAR, SQL_VARCHAR and SQL_LONGVARCHAR.
  • Unicode - all string types will be returned as SQL_WCHAR, SQL_WVARCHAR and SQL_WLONGVARCHAR.

The parameter value should be changed if any third-party tool supports only Ansi string types or Unicode ones.

Query Timeout

The time to wait for a query execution result before terminating and generating an error.

Suppress Extended Requests

Select this option to reduce the number of API calls. Otherwise, additional extended API requests will be performed to query values of lacking fields.

Custom Fields

Select this option to access custom table fields, allowing users to perform customization of the required parameter fields.

UTC Dates

Specifies whether all the datetime values retrieved from the data source are returned as UTC values or converted to local time and whether the date values specified on the application side (e.g., in SQL statements) are considered UTC or local. The default value is False.

Zoho Billing Connection String sample

DRIVER=Devart ODBC Driver for Zoho Billing;Data Center=Europe;Organization Id=20079548836;Refresh Token=2000.5b7d40a77a03d2c3bd60383050b6de99508c4.f3473e88b3f49da1cfa6a40ee1cea254

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