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Use CData Connect Cloud to connect to live Square data in Redash for querying, visualizing, and sharing.
Redash is a collaboration tool that lets you query, visualize, and share your data. When paired with CData Connect Cloud, Redash gets access to live Square data. This article demonstrates how to connect to Square using Connect Cloud and work with live Square data in Redash.
CData Connect Cloud provides a pure SQL Server interface for Square, allowing you to query data from Square without replicating the data to a natively supported database. Using optimized data processing out of the box, CData Connect Cloud pushes all supported SQL operations (filters, JOINs, etc.) directly to Square, leveraging server-side processing to return the requested Square data quickly.
Configure Square Connectivity for Redash
Connectivity to Square from Redash is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Square data in Redash, we start by creating and configuring a Square connection.
- Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
- Select "Square" from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Square.
Square uses the OAuth authentication standard. To authenticate using OAuth, you will need to register an app with Square to obtain the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL. See the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation for a guide to using OAuth.
Additionally, you must specify the LocationId. You can retrieve the Ids for your Locations by querying the Locations table. Alternatively, you can set the LocationId in the search criteria of your query.
- Click Create & Test
- Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Square Connection page and update the User-based permissions.
Add a Personal Access Token
If you are connecting from a service, application, platform, or framework that does not support OAuth authentication, you can create a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use for authentication. Best practices would dictate that you create a separate PAT for each service, to maintain granularity of access.
- Click on your username at the top right of the Connect Cloud app and click User Profile.
- On the User Profile page, scroll down to the Personal Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
- Give your PAT a name and click Create.
- The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.
Connect to Square from Redash using Connect Cloud
To establish a connection from Redash to CData Connect Cloud using the SQL Server API, follow these steps.
- Log into Redash.
- Click the settings widget on the top right.
- Click New Data Source.
- Select Microsoft SQL Server as the Data Source Type.
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On the configuration tab, set the following properties:
- Database Name: enter the Connection Name of the CData Connect Cloud data source you want to connect to (for example, Salesforce1).
- Server: enter the virtual SQL Server host name (tds.cdata.com)
- User: enter your CData Connect Cloud username. This is displayed in the top-right corner of the CData Connect Cloud interface. For example, [email protected].
- Password: enter the PAT you generated on the Settings page.
- Port: enter 14333
- Click Create.
- Click Test Connection to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
You can now work with live Square data in Redash.
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