Connection String Options
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.
For more information on connecting, see Establishing a Connection.
| Property | Description |
| AuthScheme | The type of authentication to use when connecting to remote services. |
| AccessKey | Your account access key. This value is accessible from your security credentials page. |
| SecretKey | Your account secret key. This value is accessible from your security credentials page. |
| ApiKey | The API Key used to identify the user to IBM Cloud. |
| User | The user account used to authenticate. |
| Password | The password used to authenticate the user. |
| SharePointEdition | The edition of SharePoint being used. Set either SharePointOnline or SharePointOnPremise. |
| Property | Description |
| ConnectionType | The type of connection to use. |
| URI | The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for the CSV resource location. |
| Region | The hosting region for your S3-like Web Services. |
| ProjectId | The Id of the project where your Google Cloud Storage instance resides. |
| OracleNamespace | The Oracle Cloud Object Storage namespace to use. |
| StorageBaseURL | The URL of a cloud storage service provider. |
| SimpleUploadLimit | This setting specifies the threshold, in bytes, above which the provider will choose to perform a multipart upload rather than uploading everything in one request. |
| UseVirtualHosting | If true (default), buckets will be referenced in the request using the hosted-style request: http://yourbucket.s3.amazonaws.com/yourobject. If set to false, the bean will use the path-style request: http://s3.amazonaws.com/yourbucket/yourobject. Note that this property will be set to false, in case of an S3 based custom service when the CustomURL is specified. |
| Property | Description |
| AWSAccessKey | Your AWS account access key. This value is accessible from your AWS security credentials page. |
| AWSSecretKey | Your AWS account secret key. This value is accessible from your AWS security credentials page. |
| AWSRoleARN | The Amazon Resource Name of the role to use when authenticating. |
| AWSPrincipalARN | The ARN of the SAML Identity provider in your AWS account. |
| AWSRegion | The hosting region for your Amazon Web Services. |
| AWSCredentialsFile | The path to the AWS Credentials File to be used for authentication. |
| AWSCredentialsFileProfile | The name of the profile to be used from the supplied AWSCredentialsFile. |
| AWSSessionToken | Your AWS session token. |
| MFASerialNumber | The serial number of the MFA device if one is being used. |
| MFAToken | The temporary token available from your MFA device. |
| ServerSideEncryption | When activated, file uploads into Amazon S3 buckets will be server-side encrypted. |
| Property | Description |
| AzureStorageAccount | The name of your Azure storage account. |
| AzureAccessKey | The storage key associated with your CSV account. |
| AzureSharedAccessSignature | A shared access key signature that may be used for authentication. |
| AzureTenant | The Microsoft Online tenant being used to access data. If not specified, your default tentant will be used. |
| AzureEnvironment | The Azure Environment to use when establishing a connection. |
| Property | Description |
| SSOLoginURL | The identity provider's login URL. |
| SSOProperties | Additional properties required to connect to the identity provider in a semicolon-separated list. |
| Property | Description |
| InitiateOAuth | Set this property to initiate the process to obtain or refresh the OAuth access token when you connect. |
| OAuthVersion | The version of OAuth being used. |
| OAuthClientId | The client Id assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
| OAuthClientSecret | The client secret assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server. |
| OAuthAccessToken | The access token for connecting using OAuth. |
| OAuthAccessTokenSecret | The OAuth access token secret for connecting using OAuth. |
| OAuthSettingsLocation | The location of the settings file where OAuth values are saved when InitiateOAuth is set to GETANDREFRESH or REFRESH. Alternatively, this can be held in memory by specifying a value starting with memory://. |
| CallbackURL | The OAuth callback URL to return to when authenticating. This value must match the callback URL you specify in your app settings. |
| Scope | Specify scope to obtain the initial access and refresh token. |
| OAuthGrantType | The grant type for the OAuth flow. |
| OAuthPasswordGrantMode | How to pass Client Id and Secret with OAuthGrantType is set to Password. |
| OAuthIncludeCallbackURL | Whether to include the callback URL in an access token request. |
| OAuthAuthorizationURL | The authorization URL for the OAuth service. |
| OAuthAccessTokenURL | The URL to retrieve the OAuth access token from. |
| OAuthRefreshTokenURL | The URL to refresh the OAuth token from. |
| OAuthRequestTokenURL | The URL the service provides to retrieve request tokens from. This is required in OAuth 1.0. |
| OAuthVerifier | The verifier code returned from the OAuth authorization URL. |
| AuthToken | The authentication token used to request and obtain the OAuth Access Token. |
| AuthKey | The authentication secret used to request and obtain the OAuth Access Token. |
| OAuthParams | A comma-separated list of other parameters to submit in the request for the OAuth access token in the format paramname=value. |
| OAuthRefreshToken | The OAuth refresh token for the corresponding OAuth access token. |
| OAuthExpiresIn | The lifetime in seconds of the OAuth AccessToken. |
| OAuthTokenTimestamp | The Unix epoch timestamp in milliseconds when the current Access Token was created. |
| Property | Description |
| OAuthJWTCert | The JWT Certificate store. |
| OAuthJWTCertType | The type of key store containing the JWT Certificate. |
| OAuthJWTCertPassword | The password for the OAuth JWT certificate. |
| OAuthJWTCertSubject | The subject of the OAuth JWT certificate. |
| OAuthJWTIssuer | The issuer of the Java Web Token. |
| OAuthJWTSubject | The user subject for which the application is requesting delegated access. |
| Property | Description |
| KerberosKDC | The Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) service used to authenticate the user. |
| KerberosRealm | The Kerberos Realm used to authenticate the user. |
| KerberosSPN | The service principal name (SPN) for the Kerberos Domain Controller. |
| KerberosKeytabFile | The Keytab file containing your pairs of Kerberos principals and encrypted keys. |
| KerberosServiceRealm | The Kerberos realm of the service. |
| KerberosServiceKDC | The Kerberos KDC of the service. |
| KerberosTicketCache | The full file path to an MIT Kerberos credential cache file. |
| Property | Description |
| SSLClientCert | The TLS/SSL client certificate store for SSL Client Authentication (2-way SSL). |
| SSLClientCertType | The type of key store containing the TLS/SSL client certificate. |
| SSLClientCertPassword | The password for the TLS/SSL client certificate. |
| SSLClientCertSubject | The subject of the TLS/SSL client certificate. |
| SSLMode | The authentication mechanism to be used when connecting to the FTP or FTPS server. |
| SSLServerCert | The certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
| Property | Description |
| SSHAuthMode | The authentication method to be used to log on to an SFTP server. |
| SSHClientCert | A private key to be used for authenticating the user. |
| SSHClientCertPassword | The password of the SSHClientCert key if it has one. |
| SSHClientCertSubject | The subject of the SSH client certificate. |
| SSHClientCertType | The type of SSHClientCert private key. |
| SSHUser | The SSH user. |
| SSHPassword | The SSH password. |
| Property | Description |
| FirewallType | The protocol used by a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallServer | The name or IP address of a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPort | The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallUser | The user name to use to authenticate with a proxy-based firewall. |
| FirewallPassword | A password used to authenticate to a proxy-based firewall. |
| Property | Description |
| ProxyAutoDetect | This indicates whether to use the system proxy settings or not. This takes precedence over other proxy settings, so you'll need to set ProxyAutoDetect to FALSE in order use custom proxy settings. |
| ProxyServer | The hostname or IP address of a proxy to route HTTP traffic through. |
| ProxyPort | The TCP port the ProxyServer proxy is running on. |
| ProxyAuthScheme | The authentication type to use to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyUser | A user name to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyPassword | A password to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxySSLType | The SSL type to use when connecting to the ProxyServer proxy. |
| ProxyExceptions | A semicolon separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the ProxyServer . |
| Property | Description |
| Logfile | A filepath which designates the name and location of the log file. |
| Verbosity | The verbosity level that determines the amount of detail included in the log file. |
| LogModules | Core modules to be included in the log file. |
| MaxLogFileSize | A string specifying the maximum size in bytes for a log file (for example, 10 MB). |
| MaxLogFileCount | A string specifying the maximum file count of log files. |
| Property | Description |
| Location | A path to the directory that contains the schema files defining tables, views, and stored procedures. |
| BrowsableSchemas | This property restricts the schemas reported to a subset of the available schemas. For example, BrowsableSchemas=SchemaA,SchemaB,SchemaC. |
| Tables | This property restricts the tables reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Tables=TableA,TableB,TableC. |
| Views | Restricts the views reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Views=ViewA,ViewB,ViewC. |
| SchemaIniLocation | A path to the directory that contains the schema.ini file. |
| AggregateFiles | When set to true, the provider will aggregate into a single table called AggregatedFiles all the files located in the URI directory which have the same schema. |
| MetadataDiscoveryURI | Used together with AggregateFiles , this property specifies a specific file to read the schema of the AggregatedFiles result set. |
| TypeDetectionScheme | Determines how to determine the data types of columns. |
| ColumnCount | The number of columns to detect when dynamically determining columns for the table. |
| RowScanDepth | The number of rows to scan when dynamically determining columns for the table. |
| Property | Description |
| AutoCache | Automatically caches the results of SELECT queries into a cache database specified by either CacheLocation or both of CacheConnection and CacheProvider . |
| CacheProvider | The name of the provider to be used to cache data. |
| CacheConnection | The connection string for the cache database. This property is always used in conjunction with CacheProvider . Setting both properties will override the value set for CacheLocation for caching data. |
| CacheLocation | Specifies the path to the cache when caching to a file. |
| CacheTolerance | The tolerance for stale data in the cache specified in seconds when using AutoCache . |
| Offline | Use offline mode to get the data from the cache instead of the live source. |
| CacheMetadata | This property determines whether or not to cache the table metadata to a file store. |
| Property | Description |
| IncludeColumnHeaders | Whether to get column names from the first line of the specified files. |
| FMT | The format to be used to parse all text files. |
| ExtendedProperties | The Microsoft Jet OLE DB 4.0-compatible extended properties for text files. |
| RowDelimiter | The character which will be used to detect the end of a CSV row. |
| SkipTop | Skips the amount of rows specified starting from the top. |
| IgnoreBlankRows | Indicates whether to skip the empty rows. |
| IncludeEmptyHeaders | Whether to include empty value for a column name within column header. |
| SkipHeaderComments | If set to true, skips rows at the top of the file beginning with #. |
| Charset | Specifies the session character set for encoding and decoding character data transferred to and from the CSV file. The default value is UTF-8. |
| QuoteEscapeCharacter | Determines the character which will be used to escape quotes. |
| QuoteCharacter | Determines the character which will be used to quote values in CSV file. |
| TrimSpaces | Set to True if you want the provider to trim preceeding and trailing spaces in a cell containing a quoted value. |
| PushEmptyValuesAsNull | Indicates whether to read the empty values as empty or as null. |
| NullValues | A comma separated list which will be replaced with nulls if there are found in the CSV file. |
| PathSeparator | Determines the character which will be used to replace the file separator. |
| IgnoreIncompleteRows | Indicates whether to ignore incomplete rows. |
| MaxCellLength | Max length a cell can hold, after passing this number the cell content will get truncated. If value is -1 then we don't limit the cell content length. |
| Property | Description |
| BatchNamingConvention | Determines the naming convention of batch files. |
| BatchSize | The maximum size of each batch operation to submit. |
| 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'. |
| ConnectionLifeTime | The maximum lifetime of a connection in seconds. Once the time has elapsed, the connection object is disposed. |
| CreateBatchFolder | Whether to create a folder or not when InsertMode is set to FilePerBatch. |
| 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. |
| DirectoryRetrievalDepth | Limit the subfolders recursively scanned when IncludeSubdirectories is enabled. |
| ExcludeFileExtensions | Set to true if file extensions should be excluded from table names. |
| ExcludeFiles | Comma-separated list of file extensions to exclude from the set of the files modeled as tables. |
| 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. |
| IncludeSubdirectories | Whether to read files from nested folders. In the case of a name collision, table names are prefixed by the underscore-separated folder names. |
| InsertMode | Specifies the mode for inserting data into CSV files. |
| MaxRows | Limits the number of rows returned rows when no aggregation or group by is used in the query. This helps avoid performance issues at design time. |
| Other | These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases. |
| Pagesize | The maximum number of results to return per page from CSV. |
| PoolIdleTimeout | The allowed idle time for a connection before it is closed. |
| PoolMaxSize | The maximum connections in the pool. |
| PoolMinSize | The minimum number of connections in the pool. |
| PoolWaitTime | The max seconds to wait for an available connection. |
| PseudoColumns | This property indicates whether or not to include pseudo columns as columns to the table. |
| Readonly | You can use this property to enforce read-only access to CSV from the provider. |
| RTK | The runtime key used for licensing. |
| Timeout | The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation. |
| TruncateOnInserts | Set to True if you want the provider to truncate on every (batch) insert. |
| UseConnectionPooling | This property enables connection pooling. |
| UserDefinedViews | A filepath pointing to the JSON configuration file containing your custom views. |
| UseRowNumbers | Set this to true if you are deleting or updating in CSV and you do not want to specify a custom schema. This will create a new column with the name RowNumber which will be used as key for that table. |