Connecting to Databases and Web Services

You can create a live connection to an external database or a web service, and after the connection has been made, use the data in Autodesk Infrastructure Studio.

Autodesk Infrastructure Studio uses Autodesk and OSGeo FDO providers. An FDO provider is an implementation of the FDO (Feature Data Objects) API that provides access to data in a particular data store or to specific kinds of files. (For more information about FDO, see the Open Source Geospatial website at https://fdo.osgeo.org.)

Connections to databases or web services are stored as resources in the resource repository and can be edited just like any other resource. Connection resources use one of the following providers:

• Autodesk FDO Provider for Oracle
• Autodesk FDO Provider for Raster
• Autodesk FDO Provider for SQL Server (2003)
• OSGeo FDO Provider for SQL Server Spatial (2003)
• OSGeo FDO Provider for ArcSDE
• OSGeo FDO Provider for MySQL
• OSGeo FDO Provider for ODBC
• OSGeo FDO Provider for PostgreSQL/PostGIS
• OSGeo FDO Provider for SDF
• OSGeo FDO Provider for SHP
• OSGeo FDO Provider for SQLite
• OSGeo FDO Provider for WFS
• OSGeo FDO Provider for WMS

Note:

For information about configuring connections to SDF, SHP, SQLite, and raster files, see Connecting to SDF, SHP, and Raster Files.