Adding a Connection to Google Sheets

1. In the application console, navigate to the Connections page.
2. At the Add Connections panel, select the icon for the connection you want to add.
3. If the Google Sheets icon is not available, click the Add More icon to download and install the Google Sheets connector from the CData site.

For required properties, see the Settings tab.

For connection properties that are not typically required, see the Advanced tab.

Connecting to Google Sheets

The following sections focus on authentication as a User, and authentication as a Service.

Authenticating as a User (OAuth)

The following subsections describe how to authenticate to Google Sheets from a User account (AuthScheme OAuth) via three common authentication flows:

• Desktop: a connection to a server on the user's local machine, frequently used for testing and prototyping. Authenticated via either embedded OAuth or custom OAuth.
• Web: access to data via a shared website. Authenticated via custom OAuth only.
• Headless Server: a dedicated computer that provides services to other computers and their users, which is configured to operate without a monitor and keyboard. Authenticated via embedded OAuth or custom OAuth.

For information about how to create a custom OAuth application, and why you might want to create one even for auth flows that have embedded OAuth credentials, see Creating a Custom OAuth Application. For a complete list of connection string properties available in Google Sheets, see Connection.

When the access token expires, the Sync App refreshes it automatically.

Automatic refresh of the OAuth access token:

To have the Sync App automatically refresh the OAuth access token, do the following:

1. The first time you connect to data, set the following connection parameters:
   • InitiateOAuth: REFRESH.
   • OAuthClientId: The client Id in your application settings.
   • OAuthClientSecret: The client secret in your application settings.
   • OAuthAccessToken: The access token returned by GetOAuthAccessToken.
   • OAuthSettingsLocation: The path where you want the Sync App to save the OAuth values, which persist across connections.
2. On subsequent data connections, set the following:
   • InitiateOAuth
   • OAuthSettingsLocation

Manual refresh of the OAuth access token:

The only value needed to manually refresh the OAUth access token is the OAuth refresh token.

1. To manually refresh the OAuthAccessToken after the ExpiresIn period (returned by GetOAuthAccessToken) has elapsed, call the RefreshOAuthAccessToken stored procedure.
2. Set the following connection properties:
   • OAuthClientId: The Client Id in your application settings.
   • OAuthClientSecret: The Client Secret in your application settings.

3. Call RefreshOAuthAccessToken with OAuthRefreshToken set to the OAuth refresh token returned by GetOAuthAccessToken.
4. After the new tokens have been retrieved, set the OAuthAccessToken property to the value returned by RefreshOAuthAccessToken. This opens a new connection.

Store the OAuth refresh token so that you can use it to manually refresh the OAuth access token after it has expired.

Creating a Custom OAuth Application

• set AuthScheme to OAuth,
• get and set the OAuthAccessToken, and
• set the necessary configuration parameters.

(For information on getting and setting the OAuthAccessToken and other configuration parameters, see the Desktop Authentication section of "Connecting to Google Sheets".)

However, a custom OAuth connection is required for Users who connect via the Web, and for connecting on behalf of users via a Service Account. Custom OAuth applications are also useful if you want to:

• control branding of the authentication dialog;
• control the redirect URI that the application redirects the user to after the user authenticates; or
• customize the permissions that you are requesting from the user.

Procedure

1. Navigate to the Google Cloud Console.
2. At the left navigation pane, select Library. The console opens the Library page.
3. Use the Search service to find Google Sheets API. Select "Google Sheets API" from the search results.
4. On the Google Sheets API page, click ENABLE.

User Accounts

1. Create a new project or select an existing project.
2. At the left navigation pane, select Credentials.
3. If the selected project does not have a consent screen, click CONFIGURE CONSENT SCREEN. If you are not using a Google Workspace account, you are restricted to creating an External-type Consent Screen, which requires specifying a support email and developer contact email. Additional information is optional.
4. On the Credentials page, select Create Credentials > OAuth Client ID.
5. In the Application Type menu, select Web application.
6. Specify a name for your OAuth custom web application.
7. Under Authorized redirect URIs, click ADD URI and enter a redirect URI.
8. Click Enter.
9. Click CREATE.

When the application is complete, the Cloud Console returns you to the Credentials page. A window opens that displays your client Id and client secret.

Although the client secret is accessible from from the Google Cloud Console, we recommend you write down the client secret. You need both the client secret and client Id to specify the OAuthClientId and OAuthClientSecret.

Service Accounts

When using AuthScheme=OAuthJWT, you must create a Service account.

At the Google Cloud Console:

• To complete the service account flow, generate a private key in the Google Cloud Console. In the service account flow, the driver exchanges a JSON Web token (JWT) for the OAuthAccessToken. The private key is required to sign the JWT. The driver grants the same permissions to the Service Account.

• Now create a new Service Account:
  
  1. Create a new project or select an existing project.
  2. At the left navigation pane, select Credentials.
  3. Navigate to Create Credentials > Service account. The Cloud Console displays the Create Service Account page.
  4. Enter the Service account name, the Service account ID, and, optionally, a description.
  5. Click DONE. The Cloud Console returns you to the Credentials page.
  6. In the Service Accounts area, select the service accout you just created.
  7. Click the KEYs tab, then click ADD KEY > Create new key.
  8. Select any supported Key type, such as OAuthJWTCert or OAuthJWTCertType.
  9. Click CREATE.

The key is automatically downloaded to your local device, and any additional information specific to the key is displayed.

This section details a selection of advanced features of the Google Sheets Sync App.

User Defined Views

The Sync App allows you to define virtual tables, called user defined views, whose contents are decided by a pre-configured query. These views are useful when you cannot directly control queries being issued to the drivers. See User Defined Views for an overview of creating and configuring custom views.

SSL Configuration

Use SSL Configuration to adjust how Sync App handles TLS/SSL certificate negotiations. You can choose from various certificate formats; see the SSLServerCert property under "Connection String Options" for more information.

Firewall and Proxy

Configure the Sync App for compliance with Firewall and Proxy, including Windows proxies and HTTP proxies. You can also set up tunnel connections.

Query Processing

The Sync App offloads as much of the SELECT statement processing as possible to Google Sheets and then processes the rest of the query in memory (client-side).

See Query Processing for more information.

Logging

See Logging for an overview of configuration settings that can be used to refine CData logging. For basic logging, you only need to set two connection properties, but there are numerous features that support more refined logging, where you can select subsets of information to be logged using the LogModules connection property.

Customizing the SSL Configuration

By default, the Sync App attempts to negotiate SSL/TLS by checking the server's certificate against the system's trusted certificate store.

To specify another certificate, see the SSLServerCert property for the available formats to do so.

Connecting Through a Firewall or Proxy

HTTP Proxies

To connect through the Windows system proxy, you do not need to set any additional connection properties. To connect to other proxies, set ProxyAutoDetect to false.

In addition, to authenticate to an HTTP proxy, set ProxyAuthScheme, ProxyUser, and ProxyPassword, in addition to ProxyServer and ProxyPort.

Other Proxies

Set the following properties:

• To use a proxy-based firewall, set FirewallType, FirewallServer, and FirewallPort.
• To tunnel the connection, set FirewallType to TUNNEL.
• To authenticate, specify FirewallUser and FirewallPassword.
• To authenticate to a SOCKS proxy, additionally set FirewallType to SOCKS5.

Spreadsheets as Tables

The Sync App models spreadsheets and ranges as relational tables.

Tables

Tables shows various configuration options to reflect your spreadsheets' organization in the tables; for example, you will find guides for working with headers and querying ranges as tables.

Columns provides more information on column discovery.

Stored Procedures

The Sync App enables you to represent a top-left-oriented spreadsheet or a user-specified range as a database table. You can control how tables are listed by setting the Header property.

Top-Left Oriented Tables

• Top-left-oriented tables are represented with the name of the worksheet.
• The default format requires that the table is top-left-oriented and that the first row of data in the worksheet contains the column names. This means that the default value of true for the Header connection string property is required.
• Headers should not contain special characters.
• By default the Sync App will return all rows until the first empty row. Note: an empty row between data will prevent further data from being returned.

Due to a limitation of Google's Spreadsheet API, all column headers must be non empty.

User-Specified Range

Note: Range notation is only available in a SELECT or UPDATE statement. Ranges are not supported for DELETE and INSERT commands.

You can specify column names or generate column names automatically by setting the Header property. This property affects how you use columns in commands.

Header=True (Default)

• Columns are determined by the first row of the Google spreadsheet. If no values are provided for the first row of the spreadsheet, the Sync App will create unique, alphabetized column names that are available only within the scope of that request.
• The Sync App also adds an Id column for each row that corresponds to the unique URI of the row on the Google servers. This is used during update and delete operations.

Header=False

• Columns will be dynamically assigned based on either the specified range or the size of the worksheet. The autogenerated column names are alphabetical.
• The Id column for each row will represent the row number from the top of the sheet. For example, if you specify a range A3:E6, rows 3, 4, 5, and 6 will be returned.

Views are similar to tables in the way that data is represented; however, views are read-only.

Queries can be executed against a view as if it were a normal table.

Google Sheets Connector for CData Sync Views

Query the folders contained in a user's Google Drive.

Select

The Sync App will use the Google Sheets API to process WHERE clause conditions built with the server side supported columns and operators. The rest of the filter is executed client side within the Sync App.

The columns and operators that support server side filtering are:

• Name supports the 'CONTAINS,=,!=' operators.
• Description supports the 'CONTAINS' operator.
• ModifiedTime supports the '<=,<,=,!=,>,>=' operators.
• OwnerEmail supports the 'IN' operator.
• Starred supports the '=,!=' operators.
• Trashed supports the '=,!=' operators.
• ParentIds supports the 'IN' operator.
• DriveId supports the '=' operator. It is used to get all the folders from the specified Drive.

  Note: You must set the connection property SupportsAllDrives to 'true', in order to query from a specific Drive.

All the columns that support server side filtering can be paired with the AND and OR logical operators. For example, the following queries are processed server side:

SELECT * FROM Folders WHERE Name = 'example folder'

SELECT * FROM Folders WHERE OwnerEmail IN ('[email protected]', '[email protected]') AND ModifiedTime >= '2020-04-01T05:30:00'

Columns

Pseudo-Columns

Pseudo column fields are used in the WHERE clause of SELECT statements and offer a more granular control over the tuples that are returned from the data source.

Returns a list of a user's sheets and their relevant information.

Columns

Returns a list of a user's spreadsheets and their relevant information.

Columns

The connection string properties are the various options that can be used to establish a connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection string for this provider. Click the links for further details.

Authentication

Connection

OAuth

JWT OAuth

SSL

Firewall

Proxy

Logging

Schema

Miscellaneous

This section provides a complete list of the Authentication properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

The type of authentication to use when connecting to Google Sheets.

Remarks

• Auto: Lets the driver decide automatically based on the other connection properties you have set.
• Token: Set this to perform Token Based Authentication via the APIKey property.
• OAuth: Set this to perform OAuth authentication using a standard user account.
• OAuthJWT: Set this to perform OAuth authentication using an OAuth service account.
• GCPInstanceAccount: Set this to get Access Token from Google Cloud Platform instance.

If your client application does not use OAuth 2.0, then it must include an API key when it calls an API that's enabled within a Google Cloud Platform project.

Remarks

If your client application does not use OAuth 2.0, then it must include an API key when it calls an API that's enabled within a Google Cloud Platform project.

This section provides a complete list of the Connection properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

A comma-separated list of the names or Ids of the spreadsheets to be viewed.

Remarks

A comma-separated list of the names or Ids of the spreadsheets to be viewed. Query the Spreadsheets view to retrieve this data.

Note: In case you are providing the names of the spreadsheets, make sure to provide the exact spreadsheet name, including the leading and/or trailing spaces. Also, you should not add extra spaces before and after the comma separator. If any of the spreadsheet names includes a comma, escape it by using a backslash '\'.

A comma separated list of the folders' names from which to retrieve spreadsheets in the format FolderName='name1,name2'.

Remarks

A comma separated list of the folders' names from which to retrieve spreadsheets in the format FolderName='name1,name2'.

A comma separated list of the folders' ids from which to retrieve spreadsheets in the format FolderId='id1,id2,id3'.

Remarks

A comma separated list of the folders' ids from which to retrieve spreadsheets in the format FolderId='id1,id2,id3'.

Indicates whether or not the trashed files will be listed.

Remarks

If true, the driver will list the files/spreadsheets that have been trashed.

Indicates whether or not the hidden sheets will be listed.

Remarks

If true, the driver will skip the hidden sheets.

Determines whether or not to retrieve Drive items.

Remarks

If you set this property to 'true', you can query from any Drive spreadsheets.

Indicates whether or not to use Ids as Spreadsheet and Sheet name.

Remarks

Indicates whether or not to use Ids as Spreadsheet and Sheet name. To select in a sheet instead of SpreadsheetName_SheetName use: SpreadsheetId_SheetId. Ex: SELECT * FROM 11696gdF5QUL1EnYikYiUeMTHRqA1111KbdYDoINqI_1151117664

A drive's names or ids from which to retrieve spreadsheets in the format TeamDrive='Shared drive 2, Shared drive 3', or TeamDrive='0BKwyFj1j9FOsUk9EVO, 0ANMIP9RIe1LQUk9PVA'.

Remarks

A drive's names or ids from which to retrieve spreadsheets in the format TeamDrive='Shared drive 2, Shared drive 3', or TeamDrive='0BKwyFj1j9FOsUk9EVO, 0ANMIP9RIe1LQUk9PVA'.

Boolean determining if the exposed sheets are limited to only the sheets shared to the user's domain or not.

Remarks

If true, the driver will retrieve and expose only the sheets shared to the user's domain, excluding the sheets owned by the user. If false, the driver will retrieve both, the files owned by and shared to the user.

Used in case FolderId/FolderName properties are defined. If set to True this makes the driver return all the Spreadsheets inside nested folders, else the driver will return only the files directly to that foder. By default this is set to false.

Remarks

Used in case FolderId/FolderName properties are defined. If set to True this makes the driver return all the Spreadsheets inside nested folders, else the driver will return only the files directly to that foder. By default this is set to false.

When enabled, fields where the provider detects error values will be returned as NULL. If disabled, the provider throws an error if an error value is detected in any field.

Remarks

If this property is set to true, the Sync App returns fields containing value errors as NULL.

When this property is set to false, the Sync App throws an error if a value error is discovered.

The Sync App checks for the following error values:

• #NULL!
• #N/A
• #DIV/0!
• #VALUE!
• #REF!
• #NAME?
• #NUM!
• #ERROR!

This section provides a complete list of the OAuth properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

The client Id assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server.

Remarks

As part of registering an OAuth application, you will receive the OAuthClientId value, sometimes also called a consumer key, and a client secret, the OAuthClientSecret.

The client secret assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server.

Remarks

As part of registering an OAuth application, you will receive the OAuthClientId, also called a consumer key. You will also receive a client secret, also called a consumer secret. Set the client secret in the OAuthClientSecret property.

This section provides a complete list of the JWT OAuth properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

The JWT Certificate store.

Remarks

The name of the certificate store for the client certificate.

The OAuthJWTCertType field specifies the type of the certificate store specified by OAuthJWTCert. If the store is password protected, specify the password in OAuthJWTCertPassword.

OAuthJWTCert is used in conjunction with the OAuthJWTCertSubject field in order to specify client certificates. If OAuthJWTCert has a value, and OAuthJWTCertSubject is set, a search for a certificate is initiated. Please refer to the OAuthJWTCertSubject field for details.

Designations of certificate stores are platform-dependent.

The following are designations of the most common User and Machine certificate stores in Windows:

In Java, the certificate store normally is a file containing certificates and optional private keys.

When the certificate store type is PFXFile, this property must be set to the name of the file. When the type is PFXBlob, the property must be set to the binary contents of a PFX file (i.e. PKCS12 certificate store).

The type of key store containing the JWT Certificate.

Remarks

This property can take one of the following values:

The password for the OAuth JWT certificate.

Remarks

If the certificate store is of a type that requires a password, this property is used to specify that password in order to open the certificate store.

This is not required when using the GOOGLEJSON OAuthJWTCertType. Google JSON keys are not encrypted.

The subject of the OAuth JWT certificate.

Remarks

When loading a certificate the subject is used to locate the certificate in the store.

If an exact match is not found, the store is searched for subjects containing the value of the property.

If a match is still not found, the property is set to an empty string, and no certificate is selected.

The special value "*" picks the first certificate in the certificate store.

The certificate subject is a comma separated list of distinguished name fields and values. For instance "CN=www.server.com, OU=test, C=US, [email protected]". Common fields and their meanings are displayed below.

If a field value contains a comma it must be quoted.

The issuer of the Java Web Token.

Remarks

The issuer of the Java Web Token. Enter the value of a delegated user Email Address.

This is not required when using the GOOGLEJSON OAuthJWTCertType. Google JSON keys contain a copy of the issuer account.

The issuer of the Java Web Token. Enter the value of a delegated user Email Address.

This is not required when using the GOOGLEJSON OAuthJWTCertType. Google JSON keys contain a copy of the issuer account.

The user subject for which the application is requesting delegated access.

Remarks

The user subject for which the application is requesting delegated access. Enter the value of the Service Account Email.

The user subject for which the application is requesting delegated access. Enter the value of the Service Account Email.

This section provides a complete list of the SSL properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

The certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL.

Remarks

If using a TLS/SSL connection, this property can be used to specify the TLS/SSL certificate to be accepted from the server. Any other certificate that is not trusted by the machine is rejected.

This property can take the following forms:

If not specified, any certificate trusted by the machine is accepted.

Use '*' to signify to accept all certificates. Note that this is not recommended due to security concerns.

This section provides a complete list of the Firewall properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

The protocol used by a proxy-based firewall.

Remarks

This property specifies the protocol that the Sync App will use to tunnel traffic through the FirewallServer proxy. Note that by default, the Sync App connects to the system proxy; to disable this behavior and connect to one of the following proxy types, set ProxyAutoDetect to false.

To connect to HTTP proxies, use ProxyServer and ProxyPort. To authenticate to HTTP proxies, use ProxyAuthScheme, ProxyUser, and ProxyPassword.

The name or IP address of a proxy-based firewall.

Remarks

This property specifies the IP address, DNS name, or host name of a proxy allowing traversal of a firewall. The protocol is specified by FirewallType: Use FirewallServer with this property to connect through SOCKS or do tunneling. Use ProxyServer to connect to an HTTP proxy.

Note that the Sync App uses the system proxy by default. To use a different proxy, set ProxyAutoDetect to false.

The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall.

Remarks

This specifies the TCP port for a proxy allowing traversal of a firewall. Use FirewallServer to specify the name or IP address. Specify the protocol with FirewallType.

The user name to use to authenticate with a proxy-based firewall.

Remarks

The FirewallUser and FirewallPassword properties are used to authenticate against the proxy specified in FirewallServer and FirewallPort, following the authentication method specified in FirewallType.

A password used to authenticate to a proxy-based firewall.

Remarks

This property is passed to the proxy specified by FirewallServer and FirewallPort, following the authentication method specified by FirewallType.

This section provides a complete list of the Proxy properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

This indicates whether to use the system proxy settings or not.

Remarks

This takes precedence over other proxy settings, so you'll need to set ProxyAutoDetect to FALSE in order use custom proxy settings.

To connect to an HTTP proxy, see ProxyServer. For other proxies, such as SOCKS or tunneling, see FirewallType.

The hostname or IP address of a proxy to route HTTP traffic through.

Remarks

The hostname or IP address of a proxy to route HTTP traffic through. The Sync App can use the HTTP, Windows (NTLM), or Kerberos authentication types to authenticate to an HTTP proxy.

If you need to connect through a SOCKS proxy or tunnel the connection, see FirewallType.

By default, the Sync App uses the system proxy. If you need to use another proxy, set ProxyAutoDetect to false.

The TCP port the ProxyServer proxy is running on.

Remarks

The port the HTTP proxy is running on that you want to redirect HTTP traffic through. Specify the HTTP proxy in ProxyServer. For other proxy types, see FirewallType.

The authentication type to use to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy.

Remarks

This value specifies the authentication type to use to authenticate to the HTTP proxy specified by ProxyServer and ProxyPort.

Note that the Sync App will use the system proxy settings by default, without further configuration needed; if you want to connect to another proxy, you will need to set ProxyAutoDetect to false, in addition to ProxyServer and ProxyPort. To authenticate, set ProxyAuthScheme and set ProxyUser and ProxyPassword, if needed.

The authentication type can be one of the following:

• BASIC: The Sync App performs HTTP BASIC authentication.
• DIGEST: The Sync App performs HTTP DIGEST authentication.
• NEGOTIATE: The Sync App retrieves an NTLM or Kerberos token based on the applicable protocol for authentication.
• PROPRIETARY: The Sync App does not generate an NTLM or Kerberos token. You must supply this token in the Authorization header of the HTTP request.

If you need to use another authentication type, such as SOCKS 5 authentication, see FirewallType.

A user name to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy.

Remarks

The ProxyUser and ProxyPassword options are used to connect and authenticate against the HTTP proxy specified in ProxyServer.

You can select one of the available authentication types in ProxyAuthScheme. If you are using HTTP authentication, set this to the user name of a user recognized by the HTTP proxy. If you are using Windows or Kerberos authentication, set this property to a user name in one of the following formats:

user@domain
domain\user

A password to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy.

Remarks

This property is used to authenticate to an HTTP proxy server that supports NTLM (Windows), Kerberos, or HTTP authentication. To specify the HTTP proxy, you can set ProxyServer and ProxyPort. To specify the authentication type, set ProxyAuthScheme.

If you are using HTTP authentication, additionally set ProxyUser and ProxyPassword to HTTP proxy.

If you are using NTLM authentication, set ProxyUser and ProxyPassword to your Windows password. You may also need these to complete Kerberos authentication.

For SOCKS 5 authentication or tunneling, see FirewallType.

By default, the Sync App uses the system proxy. If you want to connect to another proxy, set ProxyAutoDetect to false.

The SSL type to use when connecting to the ProxyServer proxy.

Remarks

This property determines when to use SSL for the connection to an HTTP proxy specified by ProxyServer. This value can be AUTO, ALWAYS, NEVER, or TUNNEL. The applicable values are the following:

A semicolon separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the ProxyServer .

Remarks

The ProxyServer is used for all addresses, except for addresses defined in this property. Use semicolons to separate entries.

Note that the Sync App uses the system proxy settings by default, without further configuration needed; if you want to explicitly configure proxy exceptions for this connection, you need to set ProxyAutoDetect = false, and configure ProxyServer and ProxyPort. To authenticate, set ProxyAuthScheme and set ProxyUser and ProxyPassword, if needed.

This section provides a complete list of the Logging properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

Core modules to be included in the log file.

Remarks

Only the modules specified (separated by ';') will be included in the log file. By default all modules are included.

See the Logging page for an overview.

This section provides a complete list of the Schema properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

A path to the directory that contains the schema files defining tables, views, and stored procedures.

Remarks

The path to a directory which contains the schema files for the Sync App (.rsd files for tables and views, .rsb files for stored procedures). The folder location can be a relative path from the location of the executable. The Location property is only needed if you want to customize definitions (for example, change a column name, ignore a column, and so on) or extend the data model with new tables, views, or stored procedures.

If left unspecified, the default location is "%APPDATA%\\CData\\GoogleSheets Data Provider\\Schema" with %APPDATA% being set to the user's configuration directory:

This property restricts the schemas reported to a subset of the available schemas. For example, BrowsableSchemas=SchemaA,SchemaB,SchemaC.

Remarks

Listing the schemas from databases can be expensive. Providing a list of schemas in the connection string improves the performance.

This property restricts the tables reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Tables=TableA,TableB,TableC.

Remarks

Listing the tables from some databases can be expensive. Providing a list of tables in the connection string improves the performance of the Sync App.

This property can also be used as an alternative to automatically listing views if you already know which ones you want to work with and there would otherwise be too many to work with.

Specify the tables you want in a comma-separated list. Each table should be a valid SQL identifier with any special characters escaped using square brackets, double-quotes or backticks. For example, Tables=TableA,[TableB/WithSlash],WithCatalog.WithSchema.`TableC With Space`.

Note that when connecting to a data source with multiple schemas or catalogs, you will need to provide the fully qualified name of the table in this property, as in the last example here, to avoid ambiguity between tables that exist in multiple catalogs or schemas.

Restricts the views reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Views=ViewA,ViewB,ViewC.

Remarks

Listing the views from some databases can be expensive. Providing a list of views in the connection string improves the performance of the Sync App.

This property can also be used as an alternative to automatically listing views if you already know which ones you want to work with and there would otherwise be too many to work with.

Specify the views you want in a comma-separated list. Each view should be a valid SQL identifier with any special characters escaped using square brackets, double-quotes or backticks. For example, Views=ViewA,[ViewB/WithSlash],WithCatalog.WithSchema.`ViewC With Space`.

Note that when connecting to a data source with multiple schemas or catalogs, you will need to provide the fully qualified name of the table in this property, as in the last example here, to avoid ambiguity between tables that exist in multiple catalogs or schemas.

Determines how to determine the data types of columns.

Remarks

Indicates whether or not the first row should be used as a column header.

Remarks

If true, the first row will be used as a column header. Otherwise, the pseudo column names (A, B, C, etc.) will be used.

The Header property is used in conjunction with the Orientation property. When Header is set to false and Orientation is set to Columns, column names are reported as R1, R2, R3, etc.

Set this property to control the name of the primary key.

Remarks

Determines the name of the primary key column which holds the row number. The default value of the primary key is Id.

Set this property if there is a column named ID in the table you are quering, or if you prefer to change the name of the primary key.

Define the tables within the Google Spreadsheet.

Remarks

This property is used to define the ranges within a sheet that will appear as tables. The value is a comma-separated list of name-value pairs in the form [Table Name]=[Spreadsheet Name]_[Sheet Name]![Range] or [Table Name]=[Spreadsheet Name]_[Sheet Name]![Range]. Table Name is the name of the table you want to use for the data and will be used when issuing queries. Sheet Name is the name of the sheet within the Google Spreadsheet and Range is the range of cells that contain the data for the table.

Here is an example DefineTables value: DefineTables="Table1=Spreadsheet1_Sheet1!A1:N25,Table2=Spreadsheet1_Sheet2!C3:M53,Table4=xIsPcLs2-bF3AavQcSLCfzs3kGc_Sheet4!C20:N60".

Indicates whether the data in the sheet is laid out horizontally or vertically.

Remarks

By default, the Sync App models vertically oriented spreadsheet data -- rows arranged vertically below a header row.

Set this to "Horizontal" if the rows are arranged left to right. The first column contains the column names and subsequent columns become rows.

This section provides a complete list of the Miscellaneous properties you can configure in the connection string for this provider.

If set to true, the driver will automatically expand the dimensions in case the updated/insert/deleted value is outside the range of the sheet.

Remarks

If set to true, the driver will automatically expand the dimensions in case the updated/insert/deleted value is outside the range of the sheet.

Determines how dates, times, and durations should be represented in the output. This is ignored if the ValueRenderOption is FormattedValue. The default datetime render option is SerialNumber.

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Determines how existing data is changed when new data is input.

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INSERT INTO Spreadsheet1_Sheet1(Id,Name, Amount) VALUES (2,'Test', 10)

Limits the number of rows returned when no aggregation or GROUP BY is used in the query. This takes precedence over LIMIT clauses.

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Limits the number of rows returned when no aggregation or GROUP BY is used in the query. This takes precedence over LIMIT clauses.

Indicates whether to read empty cells as null or as empty.

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NullValueMode controls how empty Google Sheets cells are modelled. An empty cell is a cell that has not been set and thus contains a null string. If NullValueMode is set to ReadAsNull, NULL is reported for an empty cell; if NullValueMode is set to ReadAsEmpty, an empty string is reported for an empty cell.

These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases.

Remarks

The properties listed below are available for specific use cases. Normal driver use cases and functionality should not require these properties.

Specify multiple properties in a semicolon-separated list.

Integration and Formatting

The maximum number of results to return per page from Google Sheets.

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The Pagesize property affects the maximum number of results to return per page from Google Sheets. Setting a higher value may result in better performance at the cost of additional memory allocated per page consumed.

Boolean determining if percentage columns should be considered as decimal.

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Boolean determining if percentage columns should be considered as decimal.

This property indicates whether or not to include pseudo columns as columns to the table.

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This setting is particularly helpful in Entity Framework, which does not allow you to set a value for a pseudo column unless it is a table column. The value of this connection setting is of the format "Table1=Column1, Table1=Column2, Table2=Column3". You can use the "*" character to include all tables and all columns; for example, "*=*".

The maximum number of rows to scan to look for the columns available in a table.

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The columns in a table must be determined by scanning table rows. This value determines the maximum number of rows that will be scanned.

Setting a high value may decrease performance. Setting a low value may prevent the data type from being determined properly, especially when there is null data.

Indicates whether or not the empty rows should be pushed.

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If true, the empty rows will be pushed at the output.

The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation.

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If Timeout = 0, operations do not time out. The operations run until they complete successfully or until they encounter an error condition.

If Timeout expires and the operation is not yet complete, the Sync App throws an exception.

A filepath pointing to the JSON configuration file containing your custom views.

Remarks

User Defined Views are defined in a JSON-formatted configuration file called UserDefinedViews.json. The Sync App automatically detects the views specified in this file.

You can also have multiple view definitions and control them using the UserDefinedViews connection property. When you use this property, only the specified views are seen by the Sync App.

This User Defined View configuration file is formatted as follows:

• Each root element defines the name of a view.
• Each root element contains a child element, called query, which contains the custom SQL query for the view.

For example:

{
	"MyView": {
		"query": "SELECT * FROM Spreadsheet1_Sheet1 WHERE MyColumn = 'value'"
	},
	"MyView2": {
		"query": "SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Id IN (1,2,3)"
	}
}

"UserDefinedViews", C:\Users\yourusername\Desktop\tmp\UserDefinedViews.json

Boolean determining if simple names should be used for tables and columns.

Remarks

Google Sheets tables and columns can use special characters in names that are normally not allowed in standard databases. UseSimpleNames makes the Sync App easier to use with traditional database tools.

Setting UseSimpleNames to true will simplify the names of tables and columns returned. It will enforce a naming scheme such that only alphanumeric characters and the underscore are valid for the displayed table and column names. Any nonalphanumeric characters will be converted to an underscore.

Determines how inserted values should be treated.

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Determines how values should be rendered in the output.

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