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Use CData Connect Cloud to connect to and query live Zuora data from HeidiSQL.
HeidiSQL is an open-source database administration tool that natively supports MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. When paired with CData Connect Cloud, HediSQL reach extends to include access to live Zuora data. This article demonstrates how to connect to Zuora using Connect Cloud and query Zuora data in HeidiSQL.
CData Connect Cloud provides a pure SQL Server interface for Zuora, allowing you to query data from Zuora without replicating the data to a natively supported database. Using optimized data processing out of the box, CData Connect Cloud pushes all supported SQL operations (filters, JOINs, etc.) directly to Zuora, leveraging server-side processing to return the requested Zuora data quickly.
Configure Zuora Connectivity for HeidiSQL
Connectivity to Zuora from HeidiSQL is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Zuora data from HeidiSQL, we start by creating and configuring a Zuora connection.
- Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
- Select "Zuora" from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Zuora.
Zuora uses the OAuth standard to authenticate users. See the online Help documentation for a full OAuth authentication guide.
Configuring Tenant property
In order to create a valid connection with the provider you need to choose one of the Tenant values (USProduction by default) which matches your account configuration. The following is a list with the available options:
- USProduction: Requests sent to https://rest.zuora.com.
- USAPISandbox: Requests sent to https://rest.apisandbox.zuora.com"
- USPerformanceTest: Requests sent to https://rest.pt1.zuora.com"
- EUProduction: Requests sent to https://rest.eu.zuora.com"
- EUSandbox: Requests sent to https://rest.sandbox.eu.zuora.com"
Selecting a Zuora Service
Two Zuora services are available: Data Query and AQuA API. By default ZuoraService is set to AQuADataExport.
DataQuery
The Data Query feature enables you to export data from your Zuora tenant by performing asynchronous, read-only SQL queries. We recommend to use this service for quick lightweight SQL queries.
Limitations- The maximum number of input records per table after filters have been applied: 1,000,000
- The maximum number of output records: 100,000
- The maximum number of simultaneous queries submitted for execution per tenant: 5
- The maximum number of queued queries submitted for execution after reaching the limitation of simultaneous queries per tenant: 10
- The maximum processing time for each query in hours: 1
- The maximum size of memory allocated to each query in GB: 2
- The maximum number of indices when using Index Join, in other words, the maximum number of records being returned by the left table based on the unique value used in the WHERE clause when using Index Join: 20,000
AQuADataExport
AQuA API export is designed to export all the records for all the objects ( tables ). AQuA query jobs have the following limitations:
Limitations- If a query in an AQuA job is executed longer than 8 hours, this job will be killed automatically.
- The killed AQuA job can be retried three times before returned as failed.
- Click Create & Test
- Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Zuora Connection page and update the User-based permissions.
Add a Personal Access Token
If you are connecting from a service, application, platform, or framework that does not support OAuth authentication, you can create a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use for authentication. Best practices would dictate that you create a separate PAT for each service, to maintain granularity of access.
- Click on your username at the top right of the Connect Cloud app and click User Profile.
- On the User Profile page, scroll down to the Personal Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
- Give your PAT a name and click Create.
- The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.
Connect to Zuora from HeidiSQL using Connect Cloud
To establish a connection from HeidiSQL to the CData Connect Cloud Virtual SQL Server API, follow these steps.
Create a new HeidiSQL Session
- In the Session Manager, select New in the bottom-left
- Give the new session a descriptive name, e.g. Connect-Cloud-Zuora
Configure a SQL Server Connection to Connect Cloud
- In the session settings, set the Network type to Microsoft SQL Server (TCP/IP)
- The Library DLL should automatically update to MSOLEDBSQL
- Set the Hostname/IP to tds.cdata.com
- Set the User to your CData Connect Cloud username. This is displayed in the top-right corner of the CData Connect Cloud interface. For example, [email protected]
- Set the Password to your PAT created in Connect Cloud in the previous section.
- Set the Port to 14333
Query Zuora from HeidiSQL
- In the database listing on the left, find your connection to Zuora configured earlier.
- Expand this connection to view individual tables or data objects present within Zuora.
- Write custom SQL queries targeting these tables, treating the data source like any SQL Server database, or visually explore each tabular data set by selecting the relevant tables
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