Connect Soda to Azure Synapse
Last modified on 28-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
Because Synapse is compatible with MS SQL server wire protocol, Soda offers indirect support for Synapse data sources using the soda-sqlserver package.
Soda also supports Azure Data Factory (ADF) with Airflow using this configuration.
data_source my_datasource_name:
type: sqlserver
driver: SQL Server Native Client 11.0
host: my_server.sql.azuresynapse.net
port: '1433'
database: my_database
username: simple
password: simple_pass
encrypt: true
| Property | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| type | required | Identify the type of data source for Soda. |
| driver | required | Use this config setting to specify the ODBC driver version you use, such as SQL Server Native Client 11.0 |
| host | required | Provide a host identifier. |
| port | optional | Provide a port identifier. You can remove the port config setting entirely. Default: 1433. |
| database | required | Provide an identifier for your database. |
| username | required | Use system variables to retrieve this value securely. |
| password | required | Use system variables to retrieve this value securely. |
| encrypt | optional | Indicate the encryption status by providing a boolean value: true or false. The default value is false. |
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 28-May-25