Learn about the fields used to create an SQL Server connection with ThoughtSpot DataFlow.
Here is a list of the fields for an SQL Server connection in ThoughtSpot DataFlow. You need specific information to establish a seamless and secure connection.
Connection properties
- Connection name
- Name your connection.
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
SQLServerConnection - Connection type
- Choose the SQL Server connection type.
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
SQL Server - Host
- Specify the hostname or the IP address of the SQL Server system
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
www.example.com - Port
- Specify the port associated with the SQL Server system
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
1234 - User
- Specify the user id that will be used to connect to the SQL Server system. This user should have necessary privileges to access the data in the databases.
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
userdi - Password
- Specify the password for the User
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
pswrd234%! - Instance
- Specify an instance with all SQL Server databases run by a single SQL Server service
- Optional field.
- Example:
diazsql - Other notes:
Advanced configuration - Version
- Specify the SQL Server version being connected to
- Optional field.
- Example:
2016 - Other notes:
Advanced configuration - JDBC options
- Specify the options associated with the JDBC URL.
- Optional field.
- Example:
jdbc:sqlserver://[serverName[\instanceName][:portNumber]] - Other notes:
Advanced configuration
Sync properties
- Data extraction mode
- Specify the extraction type.
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
JDBC - Valid Values:
JDBC, BCP - Default:
JDBC - Column delimiter
- Specify the column delimiter character.
- Mandatory field.
- Example:
1 - Valid Values:
Any printable ASCII character or decimal value for ASCII character - Default:
1 - Null value
- Specifies the string literal that indicates the null value in the extracted data. During the data load, the column value matching this string loads as null in the target.
- Optional field.
- Example:
NULL - Valid Values:
Any string literal - Default:
NULL - Enclosing character
- Specify if the text columns in the source data needs to be enclosed in quotes.
- Optional field.
- Example:
DOUBLE - Valid Values:
SINGLE, DOUBLE - Default:
DOUBLE - Other notes:
This is required if the text data has newline character or delimiter character. - Escape character
- Specify the escape character if using a text qualifier in the source data.
- Optional field.
- Example:
\" - Valid Values:
Any ASCII character - Default:
\" - TS load options
- Specifies the parameters passed with the
tsloadcommand, in addition to the commands already included by the application. The format for these parameters is:--<param_1_name> <optional_param_1_value>--<param_2_name> <optional_param_2_value> - Optional field.
- Example:
--max_ignored_rows 0 - Valid Values:
--user "dbuser" --password "$DIWD" --target_database "ditest" --target_schema "falcon_schema" - Default:
--max_ignored_rows 0