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Use CData drivers and PolyBase to create an external data source in SQL Server 2019 with access to live Zoho Projects data.
PolyBase for SQL Server allows you to query external data by using the same Transact-SQL syntax used to query a database table. When paired with the CData ODBC Driver for Zoho Projects, you get access to your Zoho Projects data directly alongside your SQL Server data. This article describes creating an external data source and external tables to grant access to live Zoho Projects data using T-SQL queries.
NOTE: PolyBase is only available on SQL Server 19 and above, and only for Standard SQL Server.
The CData ODBC drivers offer unmatched performance for interacting with live Zoho Projects data using PolyBase due to optimized data processing built into the driver. When you issue complex SQL queries from SQL Server to Zoho Projects, the driver pushes down supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to Zoho Projects and utilizes the embedded SQL engine to process unsupported operations (often SQL functions and JOIN operations) client-side. And with PolyBase, you can also join SQL Server data with Zoho Projects data, using a single query to pull data from distributed sources.
Connect to Zoho Projects
If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs. To create an external data source in SQL Server using PolyBase, configure a System DSN (CData Zoho Projects Sys is created automatically).
The connector uses OAuth to authenticate with Zoho Projects. CData Software has already registered an OAuth application with Zoho Project which is embedded and used to authenticate.
If you use the embedded credentials, set the InitiateOAuth connection property to "GETANDREFRESH".
If you would prefer to use your own custom OAuth app, see the Help documentation.
Click "Test Connection" to ensure that the DSN is connected to Zoho Projects properly. Navigate to the Tables tab to review the table definitions for Zoho Projects.
Create an External Data Source for Zoho Projects Data
After configuring the connection, you need to create a master encryption key and a credential database for the external data source.
Creating a Master Encryption Key
Execute the following SQL command to create a new master key, 'ENCRYPTION,' to encrypt the credentials for the external data source.
CREATE MASTER KEY ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'password';
Creating a Credential Database
Execute the following SQL command to create credentials for the external data source connected to Zoho Projects data.
NOTE: Since Zoho Projects does not require a User or Password to authenticate, you may use whatever values you wish for IDENTITY and SECRET.
CREATE DATABASE SCOPED CREDENTIAL zohoprojects_creds WITH IDENTITY = 'username', SECRET = 'password';
Create an External Data Source for Zoho Projects
Execute a CREATE EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE SQL command to create an external data source for Zoho Projects with PolyBase:
- Set the LOCATION parameter , using the DSN and credentials configured earlier.
For Zoho Projects, set SERVERNAME to the URL or address for your server (e.g. 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' for local servers; the remote URL for remote servers). Leave PORT empty. PUSHDOWN is set to ON by default, meaning the ODBC Driver can leverage server-side processing for complex queries.
CREATE EXTERNAL DATA SOURCE cdata_zohoprojects_source WITH ( LOCATION = 'odbc://SERVER_URL', CONNECTION_OPTIONS = 'DSN=CData Zoho Projects Sys', -- PUSHDOWN = ON | OFF, CREDENTIAL = zohoprojects_creds );
Create External Tables for Zoho Projects
After creating the external data source, use CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE statements to link to Zoho Projects data from your SQL Server instance. The table column definitions must match those exposed by the CData ODBC Driver for Zoho Projects. You can refer to the Tables tab of the DSN Configuration Wizard to see the table definition.
Sample CREATE TABLE Statement
The statement to create an external table based on a Zoho Projects Portals would look similar to the following:
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE Portals( Id [nvarchar](255) NULL, Name [nvarchar](255) NULL, ... ) WITH ( LOCATION='Portals', DATA_SOURCE=cdata_zohoprojects_source );
Having created external tables for Zoho Projects in your SQL Server instance, you are now able to query local and remote data simultaneously. Thanks to built-in query processing in the CData ODBC Driver, you know that as much query processing as possible is being pushed to Zoho Projects, freeing up local resources and computing power. Download a free, 30-day trial of the ODBC Driver for Zoho Projects and start working with live Zoho Projects data alongside your SQL Server data today.