Miscellaneous
This section provides a complete list of the Miscellaneous properties you can configure in the connection settings for this provider.
Property | Description |
Charset | Specifies the session character set for encoding and decoding character data transferred to and from the REST file. The default value is UTF-8. |
ClientCulture | This property can be used to specify the format of data (e.g., currency values) that is accepted by the client application. This property can be used when the client application does not support the machine's culture settings. For example, Microsoft Access requires 'en-US'. |
Culture | This setting can be used to specify culture settings that determine how the provider interprets certain data types that are passed into the provider. For example, setting Culture='de-DE' will output German formats even on an American machine. |
CustomHeaders | Other headers as determined by the user (optional). |
CustomUrlParams | The custom query string to be included in the request. |
DataSource | This property specifies a URI for the resource location. |
DirectoryRetrievalDepth | Limit the subfolders recursively scanned when IncludeSubdirectories is enabled. |
DirectQueryLimit | Limits the number of rows when using the DirectQuery mode. This helps avoid performance issues at design time. |
EnableForeignKeyDetection | Whether to detect the foreign keys in ODBC. |
ExcludeFiles | Comma-separated list of file extensions to exclude from the set of the files modeled as tables. |
FolderId | The ID of a folder in Google Drive. If set, the resource location specified by the URI is relative to the Folder ID for all operations. |
GenerateSchemaFiles | Indicates the user preference as to when schemas should be generated and saved. |
IncludeDropboxTeamResources | Indicates if you want to include Dropbox team files and folders. |
IncludeFiles | Comma-separated list of file extensions to include into the set of the files modeled as tables. |
IncludeItemsFromAllDrives | Whether Google Drive shared drive items should be included in results. If not present or set to false, then shared drive items are not returned. |
MaximumColumnSize | The maximum column size. |
MaxRows | Limits the number of rows returned when no aggregation or GROUP BY is used in the query. This takes precedence over LIMIT clauses. |
MetadataDiscoveryURI | Used when aggregating multiple files into one table, this property specifies a specific file to read to determined the aggregated table schema. |
Other | These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases. |
Pagesize | The maximum number of results to return per page from REST. |
PseudoColumns | Specify a set of pseudocolumns to expose as columns. |
Readonly | You can use this property to enforce read-only access to REST from the provider. |
RowScanDepth | The number of rows to scan when dynamically determining columns for the table. |
RTK | The runtime key used for licensing. |
Timeout | The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation. |
TypeDetectionScheme | Determines how to determine the data types of columns. |
UserDefinedViews | A filepath pointing to the JSON configuration file containing your custom views. |