Automated Continuous YouTube Analytics Replication to Oracle

Always-on applications rely on automatic failover capabilities and real-time data access. CData Sync integrates live YouTube Analytics data into your Oracle instance, allowing you to consolidate all of your data into a single location for archiving, reporting, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and more.

Configure Oracle as a Replication Destination

Using CData Sync, you can replicate YouTube Analytics data to Oracle. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection.
2. Select Oracle as a destination.

3. Enter the necessary connection properties. To connect to Oracle, you will need the Oracle Database Client. The Instant Client is not sufficient. When you download the Oracle Database Client, ensure that the bitness matches the the bitness of the application. Additionally, when you install, select either the Runtime or Administrator installation type.

   Set the following to connect to an Oracle database:

   • Server: The host name or IP of the server hosting the Oracle database.
   • Port: The port used to connect to the server hosting the Oracle database.
   • User: The user ID provided for authentication with the Oracle database.
   • Password: The password provided for authentication with the Oracle database.
   • SID: The service name of the Oracle database.

4. Click Test Connection to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
5. Click Save Changes.

Configure the YouTube Analytics Connection

You can configure a connection to YouTube Analytics from the Connections tab. To add a connection to your YouTube Analytics account, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection.
2. Select a source (YouTube Analytics).
3. Configure the connection properties.
   
   

   YouTube Analytics uses the OAuth authentication standard. You can use the embedded CData OAuth credentials or you can register an application with Google to obtain your own.

   In addition to the OAuth values, to access YouTube Analytics data set ChannelId to the Id of a YouTube channel. You can obtain the channel Id in the advanced account settings for your channel. If not specified, the channel of the currently authenticated user will be used.

   If you want to generate content owner reports, specify the ContentOwnerId property. This is the Id of the copyright holder for content in YouTube's rights management system. The content owner is the person or organization that claims videos and sets their monetization policy.

4. Click Connect to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
5. 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 YouTube Analytics data to Oracle.