SQL Server Connection

Use this connection to access data in SQL Server.

Configuration

Property

Macro Enabled?

Description

Property

Macro Enabled?

Description

Name

No

Required. Name of the connection. Connection names must be unique in a namespace. Connection names can only include letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens.

Description

No

Optional. Description of the connection.

JDBC Driver Name

No

Required. Select the JDBC driver name to use.

Host

Yes

Required. Host name or IP address of the database server to connect to.

Default is localhost.

Port

Yes

Required. Port number of the database server to connect to. 

Default is 1433.

Authentication Type

No

Optional. Indicates which authentication method will be used for the connection. Use ‘SQL Login’. to connect to a SQL Server using username and password properties. Use ‘Active Directory Password’ to connect to an Azure SQL Database/Data Warehouse using an Azure AD principal name and password.

Username

Yes

User identity for connecting to the specified database. Required for databases that need authentication. Optional for databases that do not require authentication.

Password

Yes

Password to use to connect to the specified database.

Connection Arguments

Yes

Optional. A list of arbitrary string tag/value pairs as connection arguments. These arguments will be passed to the JDBC driver, as connection arguments, for JDBC drivers that may need additional configurations. This is a semicolon-separated list of key-value pairs, where each pair is separated by a equals ‘=’ and specifies the key and value for the argument. For example, ‘key1=value1;key2=value’ specifies that the connection will be given arguments ‘key1’ mapped to ‘value1’ and the argument ‘key2’ mapped to ‘value2’.

Path of the connection

To browse, get a sample from, or get the specification for this connection through Pipeline Microservices, the path property is required in the request body. It can be in the following form:

  1. /{database}/{schema}/{table} This path indicates a table. A table is the only one that can be sampled. Browse on this path to return the specified table.

  2. /{database}/{schema} This path indicates a schema. A schema cannot be sampled. Browse on this path to get all the tables under this schema.

  3. /{database} This path indicates a database. A database cannot be sampled. Browse on this path to get all the schemas under this database.

  4. / This path indicates the root. A root cannot be sampled. Browse on this path to get all the databases visible through this connection.

Created in 2020 by Google Inc.