Connect Soda to MS SQL Server

Last modified on 07-May-25

For Soda to run quality scans on your data, you must configure it to connect to your data source.
To learn how to set up Soda and configure it to connect to your data sources, see Get started.

Connection configuration reference

Install package: soda-sqlserver

data_source my_datasource_name:
  type: sqlserver
  host: host
  port: '1433'
  username: simple
  password: simple_pass
  database: database
  schema: dbo
  trusted_connection: false
  encrypt: false 
  trust_server_certificate: false
  driver: ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server
  connection_parameters:
    multi_subnet_failover: true

Property	Required	Notes
type	required	Identify the type of data source for Soda.
host	required	Provide a host identifier.
port	optional	Provide a port identifier. You can remove the `port` config setting entirely. Default: `1433`.
username	required	Use system variables to retrieve this value securely.
password	required	Use system variables to retrieve this value securely.
database	required	Provide an identifier for your database.
schema	required	Provide an identifier for the schema in which your dataset exists.
trusted_connection	optional	Indicate connection trustworthiness by providing a boolean value: `true` or `false`. The default value is `false`. Set to `true` if you are using Active Directory authentication.
encrypt	optional	Indicate the encryption status by providing a boolean value: `true` or `false`. The default value is `false`.
trust_server_certificate	optional	Specifies whether encryption occurs if there is no verifiable server certificate. Providing a boolean value: `true` or `false`. The default value is `false`.
driver	optional	Use this config setting to specify the ODBC driver version you use. For example, `SQL Server Native Client 11.0` or `ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server`.
`multi_subnet_failover`	optional	Enable MultiSubnetFailover; see MS documentation.

Test the data source connection

To confirm that you have correctly configured the connection details for the data source(s) in your configuration YAML file, use the test-connection command. If you wish, add a -V option to the command to returns results in verbose mode in the CLI.

soda test-connection -d my_datasource -c configuration.yml -V

Supported data types

Category	Data type
text	CHAR, VARCHAR, TEXT, NCHAR, NVARCHAR, BINARY
number	BIG INT, NUMERIC, BIT, SMALLINT, DECIMAL, SMALLMONEY, INT, TINYINT, MONEY, FLOAT, REAL
time	DATE, TIME, DATETIME, DATETIMEOFFSET

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Last modified on 07-May-25