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Access data from external databases to be displayed in Pimcore reports

What does this plugin do?

With this Pimcore bundle you get an additional custom report type External Database on the Custom reports page in the Pimcore backend.

It supports all SQL-based databases which are supported by PDO, for example:

• MySQL
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• MSSQL
• ODBC
• etc.

As for some SQL features database vendors use different SQL dialects this bundle comes with a simple textarea for entering the SQL query. This allows for example to use LIMIT for MySQL or ROWNUM for Oracle. Furthermore this allows to execute complex statements with sub-selects, unions etc. which is difficult or even impossible with the standard SQL report adapter which gets shipped with Pimcore - so you can also use this bundle to execute complex queries on the Pimcore database.

Access external database via Pimcore report

1. Select Externaldb as report source
2. Configure external database connection and SQL query
3. Access the external database data as with a usual Pimcore report

In combination with the Pimcore Data Director bundle you can not only show data from external databases but also import it to Pimcore.

How to get the plugin

Please write an email to info@blackbit.de.