Connect Soda to MySQL

Last modified on 31-May-23

For Soda to run quality scans of your data, you must configure it to connect to your data source.

For Soda Core, add the connection configurations to your configuration.yml file. Read more.
For Soda Cloud, add the connection configurations to step 3 of the New Data Source workflow. Read more.

Configuration

Install package: soda-core-mysql

data_source my_datasource_name:
  type: mysql
  host: 
  username: xxx
  password: ...
  database:

Property	Required	Notes
type	required
host	required
username	required	Use system variables to retrieve this value securely.
password	required	Use system variables to retrieve this value securely.
database	required

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
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 31-May-23