1. A method of providing access to an external service, comprising: identifying a request for an ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) connection, the request identifying the external service and wherein the identified request is associated with a SQL (Structured Query Language) query; creating the ODBC connection; generating an HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) request to be provided to the external service, wherein the HTTP request is generated based on the SQL query; sending the generated HTTP request to the external service; receiving an HTTP response from the external service in response to the HTTP request; and populating a query result set table based on the received HTTP response.