Install Simba ODBC Driver for Google BigQuery

About Simba ODBC Driver for Google BigQuery

Connect your applications to BigQuery, letting you use BigQuery features with your preferred tooling and infrastructure.

What's new in 3.3.1.3003

Enhancements & New Features * Updated third-party libraries The connector now uses the following third-party libraries: - LibCurl 8.21.0 (previously 8.20.0) - Expat 2.8.2 (previously 2.8.1) Known Issues The following are known issues that you may encounter due to limitations in the data source, the connector, or an application. * The connector does not order the result sets for the following catalog functions: SQLColumns, SQLForeignKeys, SQLGetTypeInfo, SQLPrimaryKeys, SQLProcedureColumns, SQLProcedures, SQLTables This is a limitation in the ODBC driver discovered in July 2024. * The connector does not support parameterized types for Resultset and Parameter metadata. This is a limitation of the Google BigQuery server. * The connector does not support parameters in the exception block. This is a limitation of the Google BigQuery server discovered on Mar 2021. * On macOS or Linux platforms, when the connector converts SQL_DOUBLE data to SQL_C_CHAR or SQL_C_WCHAR, data which is small or large enough to require representation in scientific notation may prepend a 0 to the exponent. This is a limitation of Google BigQuery. For a list of BigQuery data types that the connector maps to the SQL_DOUBLE ODBC type, see the Installation and Configuration Guide. * When casting data, you must specify the data type according to Google BigQuery standards. When casting data to a specific data type, you must use the corresponding data type name shown in the "Casting" section of the Query Reference: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/sql-reference/functions-and-operators#cas ting For example, to...

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