PowerShell Scripting to Replicate SAP Concur Data to MySQL

The CData Cmdlets for SAP Concur offer live access to SAP Concur data from within PowerShell. Using PowerShell scripts, you can easily automate regular tasks like data replication. This article will walk through using the CData Cmdlets for SAP Concur and the CData Cmdlets for MySQL in PowerShell to replicate SAP Concur data to a MySQL database.

After obtaining the needed connection properties, accessing SAP Concur data in PowerShell and preparing for replication consists of four basic steps.

SAP Concur uses the OAuth 2 authentication standard. You will need to obtain the OAuthClientId and OAuthClientSecret by registering an app with SAP Concur. See the Getting Started section of the help documentation for an authentication guide.

Collecting SAP Concur Data

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module SAPConcurCmdlets

2. Connect to SAP Concur:

   $sapconcur = Connect-SAPConcur -OAuthClientId $OAuthClientId -OAuthClientSecret $OAuthClientSecret

3. Retrieve the data from a specific resource:

   $data = Select-SAPConcur -Connection $sapconcur -Table "Departments"

   You can also use the Invoke-SAPConcur cmdlet to execute pure SQL-92 statements:

   $data = Invoke-SAPConcur -Connection $sapconcur -Query 'SELECT * FROM Departments WHERE Id = @Id' -Params @{'@Id'='1668776136772254'}

4. Save a list of the column names from the returned data.

   $columns = ($data | Get-Member -MemberType NoteProperty | Select-Object -Property Name).Name

Inserting SAP Concur Data into the MySQL Database

With the data and column names collected, you are ready to replicate the data into a MySQL database.

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module MySQLCmdlets

2. Connect to MySQL, using the server address and port of the MySQL server, valid user credentials, and a specific database with the table in which the data will be replicated:

   $mysql = Connect-MySQL -User $User -Password $Password -Database $Database -Server $Server -Port $Port

3. Loop through the SAP Concur data, store the values, and use the Add-MySQL cmdlet to insert the data into the MySQL database, one row at a time. In this example, the table will need to have the same name as the SAP Concur resource (Departments) and to exist in the database.

   $data | % { $row = $_ $values = @() $columns | % { $col = $_ $values += $row.$($col) } Add-MySQL -Connection $mysql -Table "Departments" -Columns $columns -Values $values }

You have now replicated your SAP Concur data to a MySQL database. This gives you freedom to work with SAP Concur data in the same way that you work with other MySQL tables, whether that is performing analytics, building reports, or other business functions.

Notes

• Once you have connected to SAP Concur and MySQL in PowerShell, you can pipe command results to perform the replication in a single line:

  Select-SAPConcur -Connection $sapconcur -Table "Departments" | % { $row = $_ $values = @() $columns | % { $col = $_ $values += $row.$($col) } Add-MySQL -Connection $mysql -Table "Departments" -Columns $columns -Values $values }

• If you wish to replicate the SAP Concur data to another database using another PowerShell module, you will want to exclude the Columns, Connection, and Table columns from the data returned by the Select-SAPConcur cmdlet since those columns are used to help pipe data from one CData cmdlet to another:

  $columns = ($data | Get-Member -MemberType NoteProperty | Select-Object -Property Name).Name | ? {$_ -NotIn @('Columns','Connection','Table')}