Getting Started

This page provides a guide to Establishing a Connection to Adobe Analytics in CData Cloud, as well as information on the available resources, and a reference to the available connection properties.

Connecting to Adobe Analytics

Establishing a Connection shows how to authenticate to Adobe Analytics and configure any necessary connection properties to create a database in CData Cloud

Accessing Data from CData Cloud Services

Accessing data from Adobe Analytics through the available standard services and CData Cloud administration is documented in further details in the CData Cloud Documentation.

Establishing a Connection

Connect to Adobe Analytics by selecting the corresponding icon in the Database tab. Required properties are listed under Settings. The Advanced tab lists connection properties that are not typically required.

Connecting to Adobe Analytics

In order to connect to Adobe Analytics, the GlobalCompanyId and RSID need to be identified. By default, the Cloud attempts to automatically identify your company and report suite. Alternatively, you can identify the company and report suite explicitly:

Global Company Id

GlobalCompanyId is an optional connection property. If left empty, the Cloud tries to automatically detect the Global Company ID. To find the Global Company ID:

Find it in the request URL for the users/me endpoint on the Swagger UI.
Expand the users endpoint and then click the GET users/me button.
Click the Try it out > Execute buttons.
Set the GlobalCompanyId connection property to the Global Company ID shown in the Request URL immediately preceding the users/me endpoint.

Report Suite Id

RSID is an optional connection property. If not set, the driver tries to automatically detect it. To get a full list of your report suites along with their identifiers next to the name, navigate to Admin > Report Suites.

Authenticating to Adobe Analytics

Adobe Analytics uses the OAuth authentication standard. You can authenticate with OAuth integration or Service Account integration.

User Accounts (OAuth)

AuthScheme must be set to OAuth in all user account flows.

NOTE: Adobe authentication via OAuth requires that you update your refresh token every two weeks. We recommend using OAuthJWT instead.

Service Account (JWT OAuth)

Set the AuthScheme to OAuthJWT to authenticate with this method.

Service accounts have silent authentication, which does not require user authentication in the browser.
You need to create an application in this flow. See Creating a Custom OAuth App to create and authorize an app. You can then connect to Adobe Analytics data that the service account has permission to access.

After setting the following connection properties, you are ready to connect:

OAuthClientId: Set to the client Id in your app settings.
OAuthClientSecret: Set to the client secret in your app settings.
OAuthJWTCertType: Set to "PUBLIC_KEY_FILE".
OAuthJWTCert: Set to the path to the .key file you generated.
OAuthJWTCertPassword: Set to the password of the .key file.
OAuthJWTIssuer: Set to your Organization ID from the Adobe I/O Console integration in the format org_ident@AdobeOrg. This identifies the organization that has been configured for access to the Adobe I/O API.

When you connect the Cloud completes the OAuth flow for a service account.

Creating a Custom OAuth App

You must create a custom OAuth app to connect to the Adobe Analytics.

Create an App for OAuth Integration

Follow the steps below to create a custom app and obtain the connection properties in a specific OAuth authentication flow.

Navigate to the following URL: https://console.adobe.io/home.
Click the Create new project button.
Select the Add API option.
Select Adobe Analytics, click Next, and then select OAuth and then click Next again.
Select the Web option and fill out the redirect URIs. For a desktop application, you can use a localhost URL such as https://localhost:33333. For a web application, supply the URL of the page to redirect to on your website.
Click Save configured API.

Your client is now created. Notice your client has an Client ID (API Key) and a Client Secret. These will be needed to get your auth code and to generate access tokens.

Create an App for Service Account Integration

Follow the steps below to create a custom app and obtain the connection properties in a specific Service Account authentication flow.

Navigate to the following URL: https://console.adobe.io/home.
Click the Create new project button.
Select the Add API option.
Select Adobe Analytics, click Next, and then select Service Account (JWT) and then click Next again.
Choose either to Generate a key pair or Upload your public key. If you choose to Generate a key pair, save the config.zip file locally as this contains the certificate you'll need to complete the connection. Click Next after the key is created or uploaded.
Creating Your Own Public Key Certificate
- MacOS and Linux
  Open a terminal and execute the following command:
  openssl req -x509 -sha256 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout private.key -out certificate_pub.crt
- Windows
  Download an OpenSSL client such as OpenSSL Light to generate public certificates. The following steps will be for OpenSSL Light
  Open a command line window and execute the following commands:
  1) cd "C:\Program Files\OpenSSL-Win64\bin"
  2) .\openssl.exe req -x509 -sha256 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout private.key -out certificate_pub.crt
Select one or more product profiles (in product profiles you can set permissions of the app.) and then click Save configured API.

Your client is now created. Notice your client has Client ID (API Key), Client Secret, Organization ID and Technical account ID. These will be needed to get JWT token and to generate access tokens.

SSL Configuration

Customizing the SSL Configuration

By default, the Cloud 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.

Firewall and Proxy

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.

Data Model

The CData Cloud models Adobe Analytics objects as relational tables and views. The following sections show the available API objects and provide more information on executing SQL to Adobe Analytics APIs.

Stored Procedures

Stored Procedures are function-like interfaces to the data source. They can be used to access additional capabilities of the Adobe Analytics API.

Views

Reports are shown as views, tables that cannot be modified. Unlike traditional database views, however, it is not very helpful to select all metrics and dimensions in a given table. Date is the default dimension for every report, so the query:

SELECT * FROM MyReport

will become:

SELECT Date, {all the metrics here} FROM MyReport

But if the query has criteria, then the default dimensions will be the dimensions used in the criteria, like:

SELECT * FROM MyReport WHERE Country = 'England'

will become:

SELECT Country, {all the metrics here} FROM MyReport WHERE Country = 'England'

Additionally, the Adobe Analytics API limits the number of dimensions you can request data for per REST API call to one. This means that the only way for the provider to generate reports with multiple dimensions is to divide dimensions into parts.
Let's take a query example:

SELECT Country, City, Visits FROM MyReport

Firstly, the provider requests all the values of the first dimension, Country, suppose they are: England and Germany.
Secondly, the provider tries to divine England into parts with the dimension City, and it gets, let's suppose: London, Liverpool.
Finally, it divides Germany into parts with City and gets: Berlin, Frankfurt.

If we would have a third dimension, the provider would divide every city into parts with the third dimension (which means would make one request per city).

Now, imagine a four dimensional report where dimensions have many values. The generation of that report would require a lot of API calls.
However, the Adobe Analytics API allows us to provide some filters that can shorten the execution time of the query, tremendously.

Adobe Analytics API uses the following logical operators: 'AND', 'OR', 'NOT'
and also uses the following operators: 'MATCH', 'CONTAINS', 'BEGINS-WITH' and 'ENDS-WITH', which means criteria such as those below will be handled server-side:

... WHERE Dimension = 'Value'
... WHERE Dimension LIKE '%value%'
... WHERE Dimension1 LIKE '%value' AND Dimension2 = 'Value2'
... WHERE Dimension LIKE 'value%'
... WHERE Dimension1 = 'Value1' AND Dimension2 = 'Value2'
... WHERE Dimension = 'Value1' OR Dimension = 'Value2' OR Dimension = 'Value3'
... WHERE Dimension IN ('Value1', 'Value2', 'Value3', 'Value4')
... WHERE (Dimension1 = 'value1' OR Dimension1 = 'Value2') AND (Dimension2 = 'value3' OR Dimension2 = 'value4')

It is strongly recommended to use as many filters as possible, otherwise queries with many dimensions can take a lot of time.

Defining Custom Reports

To create a report view on a query, you can use the CreateReport stored procedure. The CreateReport stored procedure provides an easy way to generate new view definitions with a custom combination of Dimensions and Metrics. Calling it will create a new schema file that you can query like any other view.

The stored procedure takes a view name, a comma-separated list of metric names, a comma-separated list of metric ids, a comma-separated list of dimension names, a comma-separated list of dimension ids, and an output folder as inputs. You will need to set the Location connection property to the folder containing the new script files in order to access them; the Location can be set instead of the output folder.
You can get the metric/dimension Ids by querying Metrics/Dimensions views.

SELECT Id, Name FROM Dimensions
SELECT Id, Name FROM Metrics

For example, to use a new schema along with the default schemas, set the Location property to the db subfolder in the installation folder and make the following call:

EXEC CreateReport Dimensions = 'Country, City', Metrics = 'PageViews, Visits', TableName = 'MyCustomReport'

Views

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.

CData Cloud - Adobe Analytics Views


Name	Description
CalculatedMetrics	Query the available calculated metrics in AdobeAnalytics.
CollectionSuites	Query the available collection suites in AdobeAnalytics.
Dimensions	Query the available dimensions in AdobeAnalytics.
Metrics	Query the available metrics in AdobeAnalytics.
Segments	Query the available segments in AdobeAnalytics.
Users	Query the available users in AdobeAnalytics.

CalculatedMetrics

Query the available calculated metrics in AdobeAnalytics.

Columns


Name	Type	IsDimension	IsMetric	DefaultDimension	Description
Id [KEY]	String				Unique identifier of the calculated metric.
Name	String				The name of the calculated metric.
ReportSuiteName	String				The name of the report suite the calculated metric is in.
Description	String				A description for the calculated metric.
Created	Datetime				The datetime the calculated metric was created.
Modified	Datetime				The datetime the calculated metric was modified.
Type	String				The type of the calculated metric. For example int, decimal, percentage etc.
OwnerId	String				Unique identifier of the user that created the calculated metric.
OwnerName	String				Name of the user that created the calculated metric.
Category	String				The category of the calculated metric.
SiteTitle	String				The title of the site.
Polarity	String				Takes two value: positive and negative. Determines if it's positive or not if the metric increases.
Precision	Integer				The precision of the calculated metric.
Template	String				Additional attribute used to identify templates when IncludeType=templates.

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.


Name	Type	Description
IncludeType	String	By default, responses without this parameter include only calculated metrics owned by the user. The following values are possible: 1) all: Returns all calculated metrics linked to this company. 2) shared: Returns calculated metrics shared with the user. 3) templates: Returns all calculated metric templates.

CollectionSuites

Query the available collection suites in AdobeAnalytics.

Columns


Name	Type	IsDimension	IsMetric	DefaultDimension	Description
Rsid [KEY]	String				Unique identifier of the collection suite.
Name	String				The name of the collection suite.
ParentRsid	String				Unique identifier of the parent of this collection suite.
Currency	String				Default currency used in this collection suite.
Type	String				The type of the collection suite. For example, report suite.
Timezone	String				The timezone of the collection suite.

Dimensions

Query the available dimensions in AdobeAnalytics.

Columns


Name	Type	IsDimension	IsMetric	DefaultDimension	Description
Id [KEY]	String				Unique identifier of the dimension.
RSID	String				Unique identifier of the report suite the dimension is in.
Title	String				The title of the dimension.
Name	String				The name of the dimension.
Type	String				The type of the dimension. For example string, int, enum etc.
Description	String				A description of the dimension.
Category	String				The category of the dimension.
Pathable	Boolean				Whether or not the dimension is pathable.
Segmentable	Boolean				Whether or not the dimension is segmentable.
ReportType	String				The type of the reports in which this dimension is valid.
Support	String				The type of the reports in which this dimension is supported.

Metrics

Query the available metrics in AdobeAnalytics.

Columns


Name	Type	IsDimension	IsMetric	DefaultDimension	Description
Id [KEY]	String				Unique identifier of the metric.
RSID	String				Unique identifier of the report suite the metric is in.
Title	String				The title of the metric.
Name	String				The name of the metric.
Type	String				The type of the metric, for example int, percent, currency etc.
Description	String				A description for the metric.
Category	String				The category of the metric.
Calculated	Boolean				Whether or not this metric is calculated metric.
Segmentable	Boolean				Whether or not this metric is segmentable.
Polarity	String				Takes two value: positive and negative. Determines if it's positive or not if the metric increases.
Precision	Integer				The precision of the metric.

Segments

Query the available segments in AdobeAnalytics.

Columns


Name	Type	IsDimension	IsMetric	DefaultDimension	Description
Id [KEY]	String				Unique identifier of the segment.
Name	String				The name of the segment.
ReportSuiteName	String				The name of the report suite the segment was created in.
Description	String				A description for the segment.
Created	Datetime				The datetime the segment was created.
Modified	Datetime				The datetime the segment was last modified.
OwnerId	String				The unique identifier of the user that created the segment.
OwnerName	String				The name of the user that created the segment.
Version	String				The version of the segment.
Type	String				A comma-separated list of segment types. Allowed values are: shared,templates,curatedItem .
SiteTitle	String				The title of the site.

Users

Query the available users in AdobeAnalytics.

Columns


Name	Type	IsDimension	IsMetric	DefaultDimension	Description
LoginId [KEY]	String				Unique identifier of the user.
ImsUserId	String				The IMS User Id. This is used only for internal users such as authors, reviewers, administrators, developers, etc.
CompanyId	String				Unique identifier of the company.
CreateDate	Timestamp				The date when user was created.
Disabled	Boolean				Whether or not this user's account is disabled.
Email	String				The email of the user.
FirstName	String				The first name of the user.
LastName	String				The last name of the user.
FullName	String				The full name of the user.
LastAccess	Timestamp				When the user accessed his account for the last time.
LastLogin	Timestamp				When the user logged in for the last time.
Login	String				Login name.
PhoneNumber	String				The phone number of the user.
Title	String				The user's title.

Stored Procedures

Stored procedures are function-like interfaces that extend the functionality of the Cloud beyond simple SELECT operations with Adobe Analytics.

Stored procedures accept a list of parameters, perform their intended function, and then return any relevant response data from Adobe Analytics, along with an indication of whether the procedure succeeded or failed.

CData Cloud - Adobe Analytics Stored Procedures


Name	Description
CreateReport	Creates a custom report by providing dimensions and metrics.

CreateReport

Creates a custom report by providing dimensions and metrics.

Stored Procedure Specific Information

To create a report view on a query, you can use the CreateReport stored procedure. The CreateReport stored procedure provides an easy way to generate new view definitions with a custom combination of Dimensions and Metrics. Calling it will create a new schema file that you can query like any other view.

The stored procedure takes a view name, a comma-separated list of metric names, a comma-separated list of metric ids, a comma-separated list of dimension names, a comma-separated list of dimension ids and an output folder as inputs. You will need to set the Location connection property to the folder containing the new script files in order to access them; the Location can be set instead of the output folder.
You can get the metric/dimension Ids by querying Metrics/Dimensions views.

SELECT Id, Name FROM Dimensions
SELECT Id, Name FROM Metrics

For example, to use a new schema along with the default schemas, set the Location property to the db subfolder in the installation folder and make the following call:

EXEC CreateReport DimensionIds = 'variables/geocountry, variables/geocity', MetricIds = 'metrics/pageviews, metrics/visits', TableName = 'MyCustomReport'

Dimensions and Metrics should have their respective Ids specified in DimensionIds and MetricIds inputs.

Input


Name	Type	Required	Description
TableName	String	True	The name for the new table.
Description	String	False	An optional description for the table.
WriteToFile	String	False	Wheather to write the contents of this stored procedure to a file or not (Default = true) needs to be set to false to output FileStream of FileData
DimensionIds	String	True	A comma-separated list of dimensions' ids.
MetricIds	String	True	A comma-separated list of metrics' ids.

Result Set Columns


Name	Type	Description
FileData	String	If the OutputFolder input is empty.
Success	String	Whether or not the schema was created successfully.
SchemaFile	String	The generated schema file.

System Tables

You can query the system tables described in this section to access schema information, information on data source functionality, and batch operation statistics.

Schema Tables

The following tables return database metadata for Adobe Analytics:

sys_catalogs: Lists the available databases.
sys_schemas: Lists the available schemas.
sys_tables: Lists the available tables and views.
sys_tablecolumns: Describes the columns of the available tables and views.
sys_procedures: Describes the available stored procedures.
sys_procedureparameters: Describes stored procedure parameters.
sys_keycolumns: Describes the primary and foreign keys.
sys_indexes: Describes the available indexes.

Data Source Tables

The following tables return information about how to connect to and query the data source:

sys_connection_props: Returns information on the available connection properties.
sys_sqlinfo: Describes the SELECT queries that the Cloud can offload to the data source.

Query Information Tables

The following table returns query statistics for data modification queries:

sys_identity: Returns information about batch operations or single updates.

sys_catalogs

Lists the available databases.

The following query retrieves all databases determined by the connection string:

SELECT * FROM sys_catalogs

Columns


Name	Type	Description
CatalogName	String	The database name.

sys_schemas

Lists the available schemas.

The following query retrieves all available schemas:

          SELECT * FROM sys_schemas

Columns


Name	Type	Description
CatalogName	String	The database name.
SchemaName	String	The schema name.

sys_tables

Lists the available tables.

The following query retrieves the available tables and views:

          SELECT * FROM sys_tables

Columns


Name	Type	Description
CatalogName	String	The database containing the table or view.
SchemaName	String	The schema containing the table or view.
TableName	String	The name of the table or view.
TableType	String	The table type (table or view).
Description	String	A description of the table or view.
IsUpdateable	Boolean	Whether the table can be updated.

sys_tablecolumns

Describes the columns of the available tables and views.

The following query returns the columns and data types for the SampleTable_1 table:

SELECT ColumnName, DataTypeName FROM sys_tablecolumns WHERE TableName='SampleTable_1'

Columns


Name	Type	Description
CatalogName	String	The name of the database containing the table or view.
SchemaName	String	The schema containing the table or view.
TableName	String	The name of the table or view containing the column.
ColumnName	String	The column name.
DataTypeName	String	The data type name.
DataType	Int32	An integer indicating the data type. This value is determined at run time based on the environment.
Length	Int32	The storage size of the column.
DisplaySize	Int32	The designated column's normal maximum width in characters.
NumericPrecision	Int32	The maximum number of digits in numeric data. The column length in characters for character and date-time data.
NumericScale	Int32	The column scale or number of digits to the right of the decimal point.
IsNullable	Boolean	Whether the column can contain null.
Description	String	A brief description of the column.
Ordinal	Int32	The sequence number of the column.
IsAutoIncrement	String	Whether the column value is assigned in fixed increments.
IsGeneratedColumn	String	Whether the column is generated.
IsHidden	Boolean	Whether the column is hidden.
IsArray	Boolean	Whether the column is an array.
IsReadOnly	Boolean	Whether the column is read-only.
IsKey	Boolean	Indicates whether a field returned from sys_tablecolumns is the primary key of the table.

sys_procedures

Lists the available stored procedures.

The following query retrieves the available stored procedures:

          SELECT * FROM sys_procedures

Columns


Name	Type	Description
CatalogName	String	The database containing the stored procedure.
SchemaName	String	The schema containing the stored procedure.
ProcedureName	String	The name of the stored procedure.
Description	String	A description of the stored procedure.
ProcedureType	String	The type of the procedure, such as PROCEDURE or FUNCTION.

sys_procedureparameters

Describes stored procedure parameters.

The following query returns information about all of the input parameters for the SampleProcedure stored procedure:

SELECT * FROM sys_procedureparameters WHERE ProcedureName='SampleProcedure' AND Direction=1 OR Direction=2

Columns


Name	Type	Description
CatalogName	String	The name of the database containing the stored procedure.
SchemaName	String	The name of the schema containing the stored procedure.
ProcedureName	String	The name of the stored procedure containing the parameter.
ColumnName	String	The name of the stored procedure parameter.
Direction	Int32	An integer corresponding to the type of the parameter: input (1), input/output (2), or output(4). input/output type parameters can be both input and output parameters.
DataTypeName	String	The name of the data type.
DataType	Int32	An integer indicating the data type. This value is determined at run time based on the environment.
Length	Int32	The number of characters allowed for character data. The number of digits allowed for numeric data.
NumericPrecision	Int32	The maximum precision for numeric data. The column length in characters for character and date-time data.
NumericScale	Int32	The number of digits to the right of the decimal point in numeric data.
IsNullable	Boolean	Whether the parameter can contain null.
IsRequired	Boolean	Whether the parameter is required for execution of the procedure.
IsArray	Boolean	Whether the parameter is an array.
Description	String	The description of the parameter.
Ordinal	Int32	The index of the parameter.

sys_keycolumns

Describes the primary and foreign keys.

The following query retrieves the primary key for the SampleTable_1 table:

         SELECT * FROM sys_keycolumns WHERE IsKey='True' AND TableName='SampleTable_1'

Columns


Name	Type	Description
CatalogName	String	The name of the database containing the key.
SchemaName	String	The name of the schema containing the key.
TableName	String	The name of the table containing the key.
ColumnName	String	The name of the key column.
IsKey	Boolean	Whether the column is a primary key in the table referenced in the TableName field.
IsForeignKey	Boolean	Whether the column is a foreign key referenced in the TableName field.
PrimaryKeyName	String	The name of the primary key.
ForeignKeyName	String	The name of the foreign key.
ReferencedCatalogName	String	The database containing the primary key.
ReferencedSchemaName	String	The schema containing the primary key.
ReferencedTableName	String	The table containing the primary key.
ReferencedColumnName	String	The column name of the primary key.

sys_foreignkeys

Describes the foreign keys.

The following query retrieves all foreign keys which refer to other tables:

         SELECT * FROM sys_foreignkeys WHERE ForeignKeyType = 'FOREIGNKEY_TYPE_IMPORT'

Columns


Name	Type	Description
CatalogName	String	The name of the database containing the key.
SchemaName	String	The name of the schema containing the key.
TableName	String	The name of the table containing the key.
ColumnName	String	The name of the key column.
PrimaryKeyName	String	The name of the primary key.
ForeignKeyName	String	The name of the foreign key.
ReferencedCatalogName	String	The database containing the primary key.
ReferencedSchemaName	String	The schema containing the primary key.
ReferencedTableName	String	The table containing the primary key.
ReferencedColumnName	String	The column name of the primary key.
ForeignKeyType	String	Designates whether the foreign key is an import (points to other tables) or export (referenced from other tables) key.

sys_primarykeys

Describes the primary keys.

The following query retrieves the primary keys from all tables and views:

         SELECT * FROM sys_primarykeys

Columns


Name	Type	Description
CatalogName	String	The name of the database containing the key.
SchemaName	String	The name of the schema containing the key.
TableName	String	The name of the table containing the key.
ColumnName	String	The name of the key column.
KeySeq	String	The sequence number of the primary key.
KeyName	String	The name of the primary key.

sys_indexes

Describes the available indexes. By filtering on indexes, you can write more selective queries with faster query response times.

The following query retrieves all indexes that are not primary keys:

          SELECT * FROM sys_indexes WHERE IsPrimary='false'

Columns


Name	Type	Description
CatalogName	String	The name of the database containing the index.
SchemaName	String	The name of the schema containing the index.
TableName	String	The name of the table containing the index.
IndexName	String	The index name.
ColumnName	String	The name of the column associated with the index.
IsUnique	Boolean	True if the index is unique. False otherwise.
IsPrimary	Boolean	True if the index is a primary key. False otherwise.
Type	Int16	An integer value corresponding to the index type: statistic (0), clustered (1), hashed (2), or other (3).
SortOrder	String	The sort order: A for ascending or D for descending.
OrdinalPosition	Int16	The sequence number of the column in the index.

sys_connection_props

Returns information on the available connection properties and those set in the connection string.

When querying this table, the config connection string should be used:

jdbc:cdata:adobeanalytics:config:

This connection string enables you to query this table without a valid connection.

The following query retrieves all connection properties that have been set in the connection string or set through a default value:

SELECT * FROM sys_connection_props WHERE Value <> ''

Columns


Name	Type	Description
Name	String	The name of the connection property.
ShortDescription	String	A brief description.
Type	String	The data type of the connection property.
Default	String	The default value if one is not explicitly set.
Values	String	A comma-separated list of possible values. A validation error is thrown if another value is specified.
Value	String	The value you set or a preconfigured default.
Required	Boolean	Whether the property is required to connect.
Category	String	The category of the connection property.
IsSessionProperty	String	Whether the property is a session property, used to save information about the current connection.
Sensitivity	String	The sensitivity level of the property. This informs whether the property is obfuscated in logging and authentication forms.
PropertyName	String	A camel-cased truncated form of the connection property name.
Ordinal	Int32	The index of the parameter.
CatOrdinal	Int32	The index of the parameter category.
Hierarchy	String	Shows dependent properties associated that need to be set alongside this one.
Visible	Boolean	Informs whether the property is visible in the connection UI.
ETC	String	Various miscellaneous information about the property.

sys_sqlinfo

Describes the SELECT query processing that the Cloud can offload to the data source.

See SQL Compliance for SQL syntax details.

Discovering the Data Source's SELECT Capabilities

Below is an example data set of SQL capabilities. Some aspects of SELECT functionality are returned in a comma-separated list if supported; otherwise, the column contains NO.


Name	Description	Possible Values
AGGREGATE_FUNCTIONS	Supported aggregation functions.	AVG, COUNT, MAX, MIN, SUM, DISTINCT
COUNT	Whether COUNT function is supported.	YES, NO
IDENTIFIER_QUOTE_OPEN_CHAR	The opening character used to escape an identifier.	[
IDENTIFIER_QUOTE_CLOSE_CHAR	The closing character used to escape an identifier.	]
SUPPORTED_OPERATORS	A list of supported SQL operators.	=, >, <, >=, <=, <>, !=, LIKE, NOT LIKE, IN, NOT IN, IS NULL, IS NOT NULL, AND, OR
GROUP_BY	Whether GROUP BY is supported, and, if so, the degree of support.	NO, NO_RELATION, EQUALS_SELECT, SQL_GB_COLLATE
OJ_CAPABILITIES	The supported varieties of outer joins supported.	NO, LEFT, RIGHT, FULL, INNER, NOT_ORDERED, ALL_COMPARISON_OPS
OUTER_JOINS	Whether outer joins are supported.	YES, NO
SUBQUERIES	Whether subqueries are supported, and, if so, the degree of support.	NO, COMPARISON, EXISTS, IN, CORRELATED_SUBQUERIES, QUANTIFIED
STRING_FUNCTIONS	Supported string functions.	LENGTH, CHAR, LOCATE, REPLACE, SUBSTRING, RTRIM, LTRIM, RIGHT, LEFT, UCASE, SPACE, SOUNDEX, LCASE, CONCAT, ASCII, REPEAT, OCTET, BIT, POSITION, INSERT, TRIM, UPPER, REGEXP, LOWER, DIFFERENCE, CHARACTER, SUBSTR, STR, REVERSE, PLAN, UUIDTOSTR, TRANSLATE, TRAILING, TO, STUFF, STRTOUUID, STRING, SPLIT, SORTKEY, SIMILAR, REPLICATE, PATINDEX, LPAD, LEN, LEADING, KEY, INSTR, INSERTSTR, HTML, GRAPHICAL, CONVERT, COLLATION, CHARINDEX, BYTE
NUMERIC_FUNCTIONS	Supported numeric functions.	ABS, ACOS, ASIN, ATAN, ATAN2, CEILING, COS, COT, EXP, FLOOR, LOG, MOD, SIGN, SIN, SQRT, TAN, PI, RAND, DEGREES, LOG10, POWER, RADIANS, ROUND, TRUNCATE
TIMEDATE_FUNCTIONS	Supported date/time functions.	NOW, CURDATE, DAYOFMONTH, DAYOFWEEK, DAYOFYEAR, MONTH, QUARTER, WEEK, YEAR, CURTIME, HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND, TIMESTAMPADD, TIMESTAMPDIFF, DAYNAME, MONTHNAME, CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, EXTRACT
REPLICATION_SKIP_TABLES	Indicates tables skipped during replication.
REPLICATION_TIMECHECK_COLUMNS	A string array containing a list of columns which will be used to check for (in the given order) to use as a modified column during replication.
IDENTIFIER_PATTERN	String value indicating what string is valid for an identifier.
SUPPORT_TRANSACTION	Indicates if the provider supports transactions such as commit and rollback.	YES, NO
DIALECT	Indicates the SQL dialect to use.
KEY_PROPERTIES	Indicates the properties which identify the uniform database.
SUPPORTS_MULTIPLE_SCHEMAS	Indicates if multiple schemas may exist for the provider.	YES, NO
SUPPORTS_MULTIPLE_CATALOGS	Indicates if multiple catalogs may exist for the provider.	YES, NO
DATASYNCVERSION	The CData Data Sync version needed to access this driver.	Standard, Starter, Professional, Enterprise
DATASYNCCATEGORY	The CData Data Sync category of this driver.	Source, Destination, Cloud Destination
SUPPORTSENHANCEDSQL	Whether enhanced SQL functionality beyond what is offered by the API is supported.	TRUE, FALSE
SUPPORTS_BATCH_OPERATIONS	Whether batch operations are supported.	YES, NO
SQL_CAP	All supported SQL capabilities for this driver.	SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE, TRANSACTIONS, ORDERBY, OAUTH, ASSIGNEDID, LIMIT, LIKE, BULKINSERT, COUNT, BULKDELETE, BULKUPDATE, GROUPBY, HAVING, AGGS, OFFSET, REPLICATE, COUNTDISTINCT, JOINS, DROP, CREATE, DISTINCT, INNERJOINS, SUBQUERIES, ALTER, MULTIPLESCHEMAS, GROUPBYNORELATION, OUTERJOINS, UNIONALL, UNION, UPSERT, GETDELETED, CROSSJOINS, GROUPBYCOLLATE, MULTIPLECATS, FULLOUTERJOIN, MERGE, JSONEXTRACT, BULKUPSERT, SUM, SUBQUERIESFULL, MIN, MAX, JOINSFULL, XMLEXTRACT, AVG, MULTISTATEMENTS, FOREIGNKEYS, CASE, LEFTJOINS, COMMAJOINS, WITH, LITERALS, RENAME, NESTEDTABLES, EXECUTE, BATCH, BASIC, INDEX
PREFERRED_CACHE_OPTIONS	A string value specifies the preferred cacheOptions.
ENABLE_EF_ADVANCED_QUERY	Indicates if the driver directly supports advanced queries coming from Entity Framework. If not, queries will be handled client side.	YES, NO
PSEUDO_COLUMNS	A string array indicating the available pseudo columns.
MERGE_ALWAYS	If the value is true, The Merge Mode is forcibly executed in Data Sync.	TRUE, FALSE
REPLICATION_MIN_DATE_QUERY	A select query to return the replicate start datetime.
REPLICATION_MIN_FUNCTION	Allows a provider to specify the formula name to use for executing a server side min.
REPLICATION_START_DATE	Allows a provider to specify a replicate startdate.
REPLICATION_MAX_DATE_QUERY	A select query to return the replicate end datetime.
REPLICATION_MAX_FUNCTION	Allows a provider to specify the formula name to use for executing a server side max.
IGNORE_INTERVALS_ON_INITIAL_REPLICATE	A list of tables which will skip dividing the replicate into chunks on the initial replicate.
CHECKCACHE_USE_PARENTID	Indicates whether the CheckCache statement should be done against the parent key column.	TRUE, FALSE
CREATE_SCHEMA_PROCEDURES	Indicates stored procedures that can be used for generating schema files.

The following query retrieves the operators that can be used in the WHERE clause:

SELECT * FROM sys_sqlinfo WHERE Name = 'SUPPORTED_OPERATORS'

Note that individual tables may have different limitations or requirements on the WHERE clause; refer to the Data Model section for more information.

Columns


Name	Type	Description
NAME	String	A component of SQL syntax, or a capability that can be processed on the server.
VALUE	String	Detail on the supported SQL or SQL syntax.

sys_identity

Returns information about attempted modifications.

The following query retrieves the Ids of the modified rows in a batch operation:

         SELECT * FROM sys_identity

Columns


Name	Type	Description
Id	String	The database-generated Id returned from a data modification operation.
Batch	String	An identifier for the batch. 1 for a single operation.
Operation	String	The result of the operation in the batch: INSERTED, UPDATED, or DELETED.
Message	String	SUCCESS or an error message if the update in the batch failed.

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 establishing a connection, see Establishing a Connection.

Authentication

Property	Description
AuthScheme	The type of authentication to use when connecting to Adobe Analytics.
GlobalCompanyId	Your company identifier. If not set, the driver tries to automatically detect it.
RSID	Your report suite identifier. If not set the driver tries to automatically detect it.

OAuth

Property	Description
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.

JWT OAuth

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.

SSL

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

Logging

Property	Description
Verbosity	The verbosity level that determines the amount of detail included in the log file.

Schema

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

Miscellaneous

Property	Description
IncludeSummaryData	Configures the data exposed for custom reports. By default, the summary records are not included.
MaxRows	Limits the number of rows returned when no aggregation or GROUP BY is used in the query. This takes precedence over LIMIT clauses.
Pagesize	The maximum number of results to return per page from Adobe Analytics.
PseudoColumns	This property indicates whether or not to include pseudo columns as columns to the table.
SkipEmptyRows	Excludes empty records in report recordsets.
SupportEnhancedBreakDown	Use a breadth-first search algorithm to maximize the number of dimension records sent for breaking down per single request.
Timeout	The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation.

Authentication

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

Property	Description
AuthScheme	The type of authentication to use when connecting to Adobe Analytics.
GlobalCompanyId	Your company identifier. If not set, the driver tries to automatically detect it.
RSID	Your report suite identifier. If not set the driver tries to automatically detect it.

Remarks

Your report suite identifier. If not set the driver tries to automatically detect it.

OAuth

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

Property	Description
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.

OAuthClientId

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

Data Type

string

Default Value

""

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.

OAuthClientSecret

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

Data Type

string

Default Value

""

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.

JWT OAuth

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

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.

OAuthJWTCert

The JWT Certificate store.

Data Type

string

Default Value

""

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:


MY	A certificate store holding personal certificates with their associated private keys.
CA	Certifying authority certificates.
ROOT	Root certificates.
SPC	Software publisher certificates.

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).

OAuthJWTCertType

The type of key store containing the JWT Certificate.

Data Type

string

Default Value

"PUBLIC_KEY_BLOB"

Remarks

This property can take one of the following values:


USER	For Windows, this specifies that the certificate store is a certificate store owned by the current user. Note: This store type is not available in Java.
MACHINE	For Windows, this specifies that the certificate store is a machine store. Note: this store type is not available in Java.
PFXFILE	The certificate store is the name of a PFX (PKCS12) file containing certificates.
PFXBLOB	The certificate store is a string (base-64-encoded) representing a certificate store in PFX (PKCS12) format.
JKSFILE	The certificate store is the name of a Java key store (JKS) file containing certificates. Note: this store type is only available in Java.
JKSBLOB	The certificate store is a string (base-64-encoded) representing a certificate store in Java key store (JKS) format. Note: this store type is only available in Java.
PEMKEY_FILE	The certificate store is the name of a PEM-encoded file that contains a private key and an optional certificate.
PEMKEY_BLOB	The certificate store is a string (base64-encoded) that contains a private key and an optional certificate.
PUBLIC_KEY_FILE	The certificate store is the name of a file that contains a PEM- or DER-encoded public key certificate.
PUBLIC_KEY_BLOB	The certificate store is a string (base-64-encoded) that contains a PEM- or DER-encoded public key certificate.
SSHPUBLIC_KEY_FILE	The certificate store is the name of a file that contains an SSH-style public key.
SSHPUBLIC_KEY_BLOB	The certificate store is a string (base-64-encoded) that contains an SSH-style public key.
P7BFILE	The certificate store is the name of a PKCS7 file containing certificates.
PPKFILE	The certificate store is the name of a file that contains a PPK (PuTTY Private Key).
XMLFILE	The certificate store is the name of a file that contains a certificate in XML format.
XMLBLOB	The certificate store is a string that contains a certificate in XML format.

OAuthJWTCertPassword

The password for the OAuth JWT certificate.

Data Type

string

Default Value

""

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.

OAuthJWTCertSubject

The subject of the OAuth JWT certificate.

Data Type

string

Default Value

"*"

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.


Field	Meaning
CN	Common Name. This is commonly a host name like www.server.com.
O	Organization
OU	Organizational Unit
L	Locality
S	State
C	Country
E	Email Address

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

OAuthJWTIssuer

The issuer of the Java Web Token.

Data Type

string

Default Value

""

Remarks

The issuer of the Java Web Token. This is typically either the Client Id or Email Address of the OAuth Application.

SSL

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

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

SSLServerCert

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

Data Type

string

Default Value

""

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:


Description	Example
A full PEM Certificate (example shortened for brevity)	-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- MIIChTCCAe4CAQAwDQYJKoZIhv......Qw== -----END CERTIFICATE-----
A path to a local file containing the certificate	C:\cert.cer
The public key (example shortened for brevity)	-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY----- MIGfMA0GCSq......AQAB -----END RSA PUBLIC KEY-----
The MD5 Thumbprint (hex values can also be either space or colon separated)	ecadbdda5a1529c58a1e9e09828d70e4
The SHA1 Thumbprint (hex values can also be either space or colon separated)	34a929226ae0819f2ec14b4a3d904f801cbb150d

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.

Logging

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

Property	Description
Verbosity	The verbosity level that determines the amount of detail included in the log file.

Verbosity

The verbosity level that determines the amount of detail included in the log file.

Data Type

string

Default Value

"1"

Remarks

The verbosity level determines the amount of detail that the Cloud reports to the Logfile. Verbosity levels from 1 to 5 are supported. These are detailed in the Logging page.

Schema

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

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

BrowsableSchemas

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

Data Type

string

Default Value

""

Remarks

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

Miscellaneous

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

Property	Description
IncludeSummaryData	Configures the data exposed for custom reports. By default, the summary records are not included.
MaxRows	Limits the number of rows returned when no aggregation or GROUP BY is used in the query. This takes precedence over LIMIT clauses.
Pagesize	The maximum number of results to return per page from Adobe Analytics.
PseudoColumns	This property indicates whether or not to include pseudo columns as columns to the table.
SkipEmptyRows	Excludes empty records in report recordsets.
SupportEnhancedBreakDown	Use a breadth-first search algorithm to maximize the number of dimension records sent for breaking down per single request.
Timeout	The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation.

If set to false, all rows are included in the report recordset.

SupportEnhancedBreakDown

Use a breadth-first search algorithm to maximize the number of dimension records sent for breaking down per single request.

Data Type

bool

Default Value

false

Remarks

If true, the Cloud uses a breadth-first search algorithm to maximize the number of dimension records sent for breaking down in a single request. For each breakdown level, all records at that level are included in the same breakdown request. Use this if you are querying reports across multiple dimensions.

If false, the Cloud uses a depth-first search algorithm to break down dimension records. For each record in the root breakdown, a separate request is sent. Use this option if you are only breaking down records from a single dimension.

This is applied only on reports created via the CreateSchema stored procedure and doesn't support exposing the summary data rows.

Timeout

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

Data Type

int

Default Value

60

Remarks

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 Cloud throws an exception.

Cloud

Adobe Analytics - CData Cloud

Overview

Key Features

Getting Started

Connecting to Adobe Analytics

Accessing Data from CData Cloud Services

Establishing a Connection

Connecting to Adobe Analytics

Global Company Id

Report Suite Id

Authenticating to Adobe Analytics

User Accounts (OAuth)

Service Account (JWT OAuth)

Creating a Custom OAuth App

Create an App for OAuth Integration

Create an App for Service Account Integration

SSL Configuration

Customizing the SSL Configuration

Firewall and Proxy

Connecting Through a Firewall or Proxy

HTTP Proxies

Other Proxies

Data Model

Stored Procedures

Views

Defining Custom Reports

Views

CData Cloud - Adobe Analytics Views

CalculatedMetrics

Columns

Pseudo-Columns

CollectionSuites

Columns

Dimensions

Columns

Metrics

Columns

Segments

Columns

Users

Columns

Stored Procedures

CData Cloud - Adobe Analytics Stored Procedures

CreateReport

Stored Procedure Specific Information

Input

Result Set Columns

System Tables

Schema Tables

Data Source Tables

Query Information Tables

sys_catalogs

Columns

sys_schemas

Columns

sys_tables

Columns

sys_tablecolumns

Columns

sys_procedures

Columns

sys_procedureparameters

Columns

sys_keycolumns

Columns

sys_foreignkeys

Columns

sys_primarykeys

Columns

sys_indexes

Columns

sys_connection_props

Columns

sys_sqlinfo

Discovering the Data Source's SELECT Capabilities

Columns

sys_identity

Columns

Connection String Options