Automate Veeva Integration Tasks from PowerShell

The CData Cmdlets for Veeva are standard PowerShell cmdlets that make it easy to accomplish data cleansing, normalization, backup, and other integration tasks by enabling real-time and bidirectional access to Veeva.

PowerShell Cmdlets or ADO.NET Driver?

The Cmdlets are not only a PowerShell interface to Veeva, but also an SQL interface; this tutorial shows how to use both to create, retrieve, update, and delete Veeva data. We also show examples of the ADO.NET equivalent, which is possible with the CData ADO.NET Provider for Veeva. To access Veeva data from other .NET applications, like LINQPad, use the CData ADO.NET Provider for Veeva.

Once you have acquired the necessary connection properties, accessing Veeva data in PowerShell can be enabled in three steps.

You are ready to connect after specifying the following connection properties:

• Url: The host you see in the URL after you login to your account. For example: https://my-veeva-domain.veevavault.com
• User: The username you use to login to your account.
• Password: The password you use to login to your account.

PowerShell

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module VeevaVaultCmdlets

2. Connect:

   $veevavault = Connect-Veeva -User "$User" -Password "$Password" -Server "$Server" -Database "$Database"

3. Search for and retrieve data:

   $categoryid = "5" $northwindproducts = Select-Veeva -Connection $veevavault -Table "NorthwindProducts" -Where "CategoryId = `'$CategoryId`'" $northwindproducts

   You can also use the Invoke-Veeva cmdlet to execute SQL commands:

   $northwindproducts = Invoke-Veeva -Connection $veevavault -Query 'SELECT * FROM NorthwindProducts WHERE CategoryId = @CategoryId' -Params @{'@CategoryId'='5'}

ADO.NET

1. Load the provider's assembly:

   [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files\CData\CData ADO.NET Provider for Veeva\lib\System.Data.CData.VeevaVault.dll")

2. Connect to Veeva:

   $conn= New-Object System.Data.CData.VeevaVault.VeevaVaultConnection("User=myuser;Password=mypassword;Server=localhost;Database=mydatabase;") $conn.Open()

3. Instantiate the VeevaVaultDataAdapter, execute an SQL query, and output the results:

   $sql="SELECT ProductId, ProductName from NorthwindProducts" $da= New-Object System.Data.CData.VeevaVault.VeevaVaultDataAdapter($sql, $conn) $dt= New-Object System.Data.DataTable $da.Fill($dt) $dt.Rows | foreach { Write-Host $_.productid $_.productname }

Update Veeva Data

PowerShell

ADO.NET

Insert Veeva Data

PowerShell

ADO.NET

Delete Veeva Data

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ADO.NET