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; creating the ODBC connection; receiving a SQL (Structured Query Language) query that is associated with the ODBC connection and includes information to be provided to the external service; translating the received SQL query into an HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) request to be provided to the external service, wherein translating the SQL query into the HTTP request comprises identifying information in one or more predicates included in a WHERE clause of the SQL query, wherein each of the one or more predicates includes a predefined column of a predefined table, an operator, and a request parameter value, each predefined column in the predefined table corresponds to either an HTTP request parameter or an HTTP response parameter, and each column included in the SQL query corresponds to a predefined column included in the predefined table; sending the translated HTTP request to the external service; receiving an HTTP response from the external service in response to the HTTP request; translating the received HTTP response into a query result set table; and providing the query result set table in response to the received SQL query.