Amazon Redshift connection reference
Learn about the fields used to create an Amazon Redshift connection with ThoughtSpot DataFlow.
Here is a list of the fields for an Amazon Redshift connection in ThoughtSpot DataFlow. You need specific information to establish a seamless and secure connection.
Connection properties
- Connection name
- 
Name your connection. Mandatory field. - Example:
- 
AmazonRedshiftConnection 
 
- Connection type
- 
Choose the Amazon Redshift connection type. Mandatory field. - Example:
- 
Amazon Redshift 
 
- Host
- 
Specify the hostname or the IP address of the Redshift system. Mandatory field. - Example:
- 
example.com 
 
- Port
- 
Specify the port associated to the Redshift system. Mandatory field. - Example:
- 
1234 
- Default:
- 
5439 
 
- Database
- 
Collection of information that is organized so that it can be easily accessed, managed and updated. Mandatory field. - Example:
- 
database 
 
- User
- 
Specify the user to connect to Amazon Redshift. This user must have data access privileges. Mandatory field. - Example:
- 
userdi 
 
- Password
- 
Specify the password for the User. Mandatory field. - Example:
- 
pswrd234%! 
 
- Enter password/ Fetch password from vault
- 
Select whether to enter password or fetch and use the password you have stored in external vault providers (e.g AWS Secrets Manager). Mandatory field. - Default:
- 
Enter password 
 
- Vault provider
- 
Select the name of your external vault provider. Mandatory field. - Default:
- 
AWS Secrets Manager 
- Other notes:
- 
Option appears when you select “Fetch password from vault.” Requires Identity & Access Manager (IAM) role and DataFlow should be on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). 
 
- Secrets Manager Region
- 
Region of the AWS account where secret manager is defined. Mandatory field. - Other notes:
- 
Option appears when you select “Fetch password from vault.” 
 
- Secret Name or ARN
- 
If user trying to access using two different accounts, then the value to be given here is a fully qualified Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the secret. Mandatory field. - Other notes:
- 
Option appears when you select “Fetch password from vault.” Use Secret Name or ARN for assuming role from different account. Requires ARN for secret name field. 
 
- Remote role ARN
- 
If user trying to access using two different accounts, then the value to be given here is a remote role Amazon Resource Name (ARN) where secret manager is not defined. Optional field. - Other notes:
- 
Option appears when you select “Fetch password from vault.” 
 
- Key name in secret
- 
Key name given for the secret, to get its value. Mandatory field. - Other notes:
- 
Option appears when you select “Fetch password from vault.” 
 
- JDBC options
- 
Specify the options associated with the JDBC URL. Optional field. - Example:
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jdbc:sqlserver://[serverName[\instanceName][:portNumber]]
- Other notes:
- 
Advanced configuration. 
- Default:
- 
enableFetchRingBuffer=false property
 
Sync properties
- Column delimiter
- 
Specify the column delimiter character. Mandatory field. - Example:
- 
1 
- Valid Values:
- 
Any printable ASCII character or decimal value for ASCII character 
- Default:
- 
1 
 
- Enclosing character
- 
Specify if the text columns in the source data needs to be enclosed in quotes. Optional field. - Example:
- 
DOUBLE 
- Valid Values:
- 
SINGLE, DOUBLE 
- Default:
- 
DOUBLE 
- Other notes:
- 
This is required if the text data has newline character or delimiter character. 
 
- Escape character
- 
Specify the escape character if using a text qualifier in the source data. Optional field. - Example:
- 
\" 
- Valid Values:
- 
Any ASCII character 
- Default:
- 
\" 
 
- Fetch size
- 
Specify the number of rows to be fetched at a time and processed in memory. If the value specified is zero then, all rows are extracted at once. Mandatory field. - Example:
- 
1000 
- Valid Values:
- 
Any numeric value 
- Default:
- 
1000 
 
- tsload options
- 
Specifies the parameters passed with the tsloadcommand, in addition to the commands already included by the application. The format for these parameters is:<param_1_name> = <param_1_value>- Example:
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date_time_format = %Y-%m-%d date_format = %Y-%m-%d;time_format = %H:%M:%S
- Valid Values:
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null_value = NULL max_ignored_rows = 0
- Default:
- 
max_ignored_rows = 0
 
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