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Yellowfin does not ship with the driver required for this connection due to licensing/paywall reasons. You will need to manually upload the driver through the Plugin Manager. |
- Click on the Create button and choose the data source option.
- Then select the database option.
- When the New Connection popup appears, provide a name and description for your database.
- Choose Google BigQuery from the list of available database options. New configuration fields will appear on doing so.
- Include Schema in SQL: Select this checkbox to add the schema name when addressing database tables in SQL queries.
- Project: Enter the name of the BigQuery Projectproject.
- Service Account: Specify the email address of your Google service account.
P12 Key File Path: Provide the full path to a private key file for a service account. This is used to authenticate the service account email address. This field supports both type of key formats: .p12 and .json.
Note You can download the private key file from the Google API console web page.
- JDBC Driver: The JDBC driver used to talk to your Google BigQuery database. You must install this driver through the Plugin Manager.
- Username: Enter the username of your database account.
- Password: Provide the password of the above account.
- Once you have completed your connection information, you will have several options:
- Advanced Connection Editor: This will take you to the Data Source page in the Admin Console and allow you to edit all the advanced options available for your database.
- Test Connection: This will validate the connection parameters you provided to ensure it can connect to your database. If the connection was successful, a message will appear.
- Create View: This will save your connection and get you started on creating a view based on it.
- Save & Close: This will allow you to save your connection and close the New Connection popup, returning you to the page you were on previously.
- Cancel: This closes the New Connection popup without saving your connection, returning you to the page you were on previously.
- We recommend testing the connection, and then saving it by using the Save & Close button.
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