Firebird is currently not officially supported. Connection is possible with generic ODBC driver. Metadata returned depends on driver version and provider.
We have tested and successfully connected to and imported metadata from Firebird with ODBC drivers listed below. It is highly likely it will work with other drivers as well.
Tested ODBC Driver and environments: Firebird ODBC Driver [Free]
We have tested and successfully connected to and imported metadata in following environment:
Firebird ODBC version: 2.0.5 (64 bit)
Firebird version: 3.0.4
Supported schema elements and metadata
Dataedo reads following metadata from Firebird.
- Tables
- Columns
- Data type with length
- Nullable
- Default value
- Columns
- Views
- Columns
- Data type with length
- Nullable
- Default value
- Columns
Data Profiling
Dataedo does not support profiling in Firebird.
Data Lineage
Dataedo does not support data lineage in Firebird.
Limitations
Following schema/metadata elements currently are not supported:
- Function/Procedure
- Primary key
- Foreign keys
- Unique constraints
- View script