An exemplary Qt app that connects to SQL server and displays a table from a database

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Qt SQL Example

An exemplary Qt app that connects to SQL server and displays a table from a database. The program was made for educational purposes.

A compiled Windows application can be downloaded from Releases.

The program was tested on:

clients: Windows 10 with Qt 5.9.1, Ubuntu 16.04 with Qt 5.5.1,
servers: MySQL Server 5.5.57, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3.

Client config

The program reads config.ini on startup. The file must be located in the app working directory.

SQL database drivers

A comprehensive discussion about SQL database drivers (Qt driver plugins as well as system drivers) can be found in Qt Documentation. MSSQL is handled by the ODBC driver.

Windows 10

Both Qt SQL driver plugins (QMYSQL and QODBC) should be already bundled with Qt SDK.
MySQL driver can be installed by placing libmysql.dll from C API for MySQL (mysqlclient) in the app working directory.
ODBC Driver Manager and SQL Server driver are built in; hence, no further installation is necessary. Alternatively, instead of SQL Server driver, one can use Microsoft ODBC Driver; see Microsoft Docs.

Ubuntu 16.04

Packages with Qt driver plugins and system SQL drivers:

MySQL - libqt5sql5-mysql libmysqlclient20,
ODBC (unixODBC Driver Manager and Microsoft ODBC Driver) - libqt5sql5-odbc libodbc1 unixodbc odbcinst msodbcsql*.

* How to install msodbcsql - Installing the Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server on Linux and macOS.