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Use CData Sync for automated, continuous, customizable OData replication to Snowflake.
Always-on applications rely on automatic failover capabilities and real-time data access. CData Sync integrates live OData services into your Snowflake instance, allowing you to consolidate all of your data into a single location for archiving, reporting, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and more.
About OData Data Integration
CData simplifies access and integration of live OData services data. Our customers leverage CData connectivity to:
- Access OData versions 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0, working with legacy services and the latest features and capabilities.
- Leverage advanced query options, including $filter, $select, and $expand, enhancing data retrieval from 3rd party tools.
- Use Server-side execution of aggregation and grouping to minimize data transfer and boost performance.
- Authenticate securely using a variety of schemes, including Azure AD, digest, negotiate, NTLM, OAuth, and more means secure authentication with every connection.
- Use SQL stored procedures to manage OData service entities - listing, creating, and removing associations between entities.
Customers use CData's solutions to regularly integrate their OData services with preferred tools, such as Power BI, MicroStrategy, or Tableau, and to replicate data from OData services to their databases or data warehouses.
Getting Started
Configure Snowflake as a Replication Destination
Using CData Sync, you can replicate OData services to Snowflake. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.
- Click Add Connection.
- Select Snowflake as a destination.
- Enter the necessary connection properties. To connect to Snowflake, set the following:
- User: The username provided for authentication with the Snowflake database
- Password: The Snowflake user's password
- AuthScheme: The authentication scheme used. Accepted entries are PASSWORD, OKTA
- Account: The Account provided for authentication with Snowflake
- URL: the URL of the Snowflake database instance, for example: https://myaccount.snowflakecomputing.com
- Warehouse: The name of the Snowflake warehouse
- Database: The name of the Snowflake database
- Schema: The schema of the Snowflake database
- Click Test Connection to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
- Click Save Changes.
Configure the OData Connection
You can configure a connection to OData from the Connections tab. To add a connection to your OData account, navigate to the Connections tab.
- Click Add Connection.
- Select a source (OData).
- Configure the connection properties.
The User and Password properties, under the Authentication section, must be set to valid OData user credentials. In addition, you will need to specify a URL to a valid OData server organization root or OData services file.
- Click Connect to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
- Click Save Changes.
Configure Replication Queries
CData Sync enables you to control replication with a point-and-click interface and with SQL queries. For each replication you wish to configure, navigate to the Jobs tab and click Add Job. Select the Source and Destination for your replication.
Replicate Entire Tables
To replicate an entire table, click Add Tables in the Tables section, choose the table(s) you wish to replicate, and click Add Selected Tables.
Customize Your Replication
You can use the Columns and Query tabs of a task to customize your replication. The Columns tab allows you to specify which columns to replicate, rename the columns at the destination, and even perform operations on the source data before replicating. The Query tab allows you to add filters, grouping, and sorting to the replication.Schedule Your Replication
In the Schedule section, you can schedule a job to run automatically, configuring the job to run after specified intervals ranging from once every 10 minutes to once every month.
Once you have configured the replication job, click Save Changes. You can configure any number of jobs to manage the replication of your OData services to Snowflake.