MySQL connection reference
Learn about the fields used to create a MySQL connection with ThoughtSpot DataFlow.
Here is a list of the fields for a MySQL connection in ThoughtSpot DataFlow. You need specific information to establish a seamless and secure connection.
Connection properties
- Connection name
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Name your connection. Mandatory field.
- Example:
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MySQLConnection
- Connection type
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Choose the MySQL connection type. Mandatory field.
- Example:
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MySQL
- Host
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Specify the hostname or the IP address of the MySQL system. Mandatory field.
- Example:
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www.example.com
- Port
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Specify the port associated to the MySQL system. Mandatory field.
- Example:
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1234
- User
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Specify the user id that will be used to connect to the MySQL system. This user should have necessary privileges to access the data in the databases. Mandatory field.
- Example:
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userdi
- Password
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Specify the password for the User.
Mandatory field.
- Example:
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pswrd234%!
- Enter password/ Fetch password from vault
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Select whether to enter password or fetch and use the password you have stored in external vault providers (e.g AWS Secrets Manager). Mandatory field.
- Default:
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Enter password
- Vault provider
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Select the name of your external vault provider. Mandatory field.
- Default:
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AWS Secrets Manager
- Other notes:
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Option appears when you select “Fetch password from vault.” Requires Identity & Access Manager (IAM) role and DataFlow should be on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
- Secrets Manager Region
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Region of the AWS account where secret manager is defined. Mandatory field.
- Other notes:
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Option appears when you select “Fetch password from vault.”
- Secret Name or ARN
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If user trying to access using two different accounts, then the value to be given here is a fully qualified Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the secret. Mandatory field.
- Other notes:
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Option appears when you select “Fetch password from vault.” Use Secret Name or ARN for assuming role from different account. Requires ARN for secret name field.
- Remote role ARN
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If user trying to access using two different accounts, then the value to be given here is a remote role Amazon Resource Name (ARN) where secret manager is not defined. Optional field.
- Other notes:
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Option appears when you select “Fetch password from vault.”
- Key name in secret
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Key name given for the secret, to get its value. Mandatory field.
- Other notes:
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Option appears when you select “Fetch password from vault.”
- JDBC options
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Specify the options associated with the JDBC URL.
Optional field.
- Example:
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jdbc:sqlserver://[serverName[\instanceName][:portNumber]] - Other notes:
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Advanced configuration.
Sync properties
- Column delimiter
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Specify the column delimiter character. Mandatory field.
- Example:
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1
- Valid Values:
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Any printable ASCII character or decimal value for ASCII character
- Default:
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The delimiter specified in sync
- Enclosing character
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Specify if the text columns in the source data needs to be enclosed in quotes. Optional field.
- Example:
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DOUBLE
- Valid Values:
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Single, Double
- Default:
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DOUBLE
- Other notes:
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This is required if the text data has newline character or delimiter character.
- Escape character
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Specify the escape character if using a text qualifier in the source data. Optional field.
- Example:
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\"
- Valid Values:
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Any ASCII character
- Default:
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\"
- Fetch size
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Specify the number of rows to be fetched at a time and processed in memory. If the value specified is zero then, all rows are extracted at once. Optional field.
- Example:
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1000
- Valid Values:
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Any numeric value
- Default:
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1000
- Max ignored rows
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Abort the transaction after encountering 'n' ignored rows. Optional field.
- Example:
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0 - Valid Values:
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Any numeric value
- Default:
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0
- tsload options
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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> = <param_1_value>- Example:
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date_time_format = %Y-%m-%d date_format = %Y-%m-%d;time_format = %H:%M:%S - Valid Values:
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null_value = NULL max_ignored_rows = 0 - Default:
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max_ignored_rows = 0
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