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JDBC: New source

Adding new JDBC entities to a new source

Select radio button: To new source

This will kick off the Add Data wizard to create a new source and define a new entity within the source.

Source wizard select add data to new source

Choose Connection: Choose the predefined JDBC source connection to the appropriate relational database to discover sources.

Default Entity Level: Specify level of data management (see System Settings: Level Control)

Select Source Hierarchy: Configurable. Choose from dropdown.

Inbound Protocol: Pre-defined Inbound Protocol auto-populates for the selected Source Connection

Base Directory: Configurable. This is the directory where data will be stored in File System. [This value is specified in core_env property: localfile.base.dir.source.connection. This property limits access and browsing to subdirectories of the specified location.]

Groups: Select Group(s) requiring access from the dropdown options. At least one group must be added for the data to be discoverable.

Click Next.

Complete source connection fields

Base directory folder browser for discovery of file system directories (Select Folder icon)

Browse base directory subfolders

Sources

Sources available in the relational database display. Select the sources of interest.

Click Next.

Entities and Fields

Entities available in the selected sources will display. Expand the Icon caret expand collapsecaret to the left of the entity titles to reveal available fields for those entities. Select all fields or a subset. Note that sources can be renamed. Entities and fields cannot be renamed in the wizard but can be renamed in source grids (external source, external entity, external field) grids after data has been loaded (the objects will automatically display in discover [internal objects] with new names).

Source

Select JDBC sources available through selected connection

Select Entities and Fields available in selected JDBC sources

Select entities and fields of JDBC sources

Stored Format Type

Options include:

  • AVRO
  • ORC
  • ORC_ALL_STRING
  • PARQUET
  • PARQUET_ALL_STRING
  • TEXT_TAB_DELIMITED

Qlik Catalog Stored Format Type step is skipped for single node environments where Stored Format Type is always TEXT_TAB_DELIMITED.

Specify stored file format

Load Data to the Entity. Once the Entity has been saved, navigate to Entities screen in Source to load the data.

Select Load from the More dropdown.

Load data to the entity

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