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⇱ Automated Continuous Bitbucket Replication to SQL Server

Automated Continuous Bitbucket Replication to SQL Server

👁 Mohsin Turki
Mohsin Turki
Technical Marketing Engineer
Use CData Sync for automated, continuous, customizable Bitbucket replication to SQL Server.

Always-on applications rely on automatic failover capabilities and real-time data access. CData Sync integrates live Bitbucket data into your SQL Server instance, allowing you to consolidate all of your data into a single location for archiving, reporting, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and more.

Configure SQL Server as a Replication Destination

Using CData Sync, you can replicate Bitbucket data to SQL Server. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.

  1. Click Add Connection. 👁 Add a new connection.
  2. Select the Destinations tab and locate the SQL Server connector. 👁 Configure a Destination connection to SQL Server.
  3. Click the Configure Connection icon at the end of that row to open the New Connection page. If the Configure Connection icon is not available, click the Download Connector icon to install the SQL Server connector. For more information about installing new connectors, see Connections in the Help documentation.
  4. To connect to SQL Server, set the following connection properties:
    • Connection Name: Enter a connection name of your choice for the SQL Server connection.
    • Server: Enter the name or network address of the computer running SQL Server.
    • Port: Enter the port used to connect to the server hosting the SQL Server database.
    • Database: Enter the name of the SQL Server database.
    • User: Enter the username provided for authentication with SQL Server, if using forms authentication.
    • Password: Enter the password provided for authentication with SQL Server, if using forms authentication.

    Java Edition

    The Java version requires the Microsoft SQL Server JDBC driver, which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center. Copy the JDBC driver to the lib folder of your Java Web server to make a connection.

    👁 Enter the connection details.
  5. Once connected, click Create & Test to create, test and save the connection.

You are now connected to SQL Server and can use it as both a source and a destination.

NOTE: You can use the Label feature to add a label for a source or a destination.

👁 Add a label.

In this article, we will demonstrate how to load Bitbucket data into SQL Server and utilize it as a destination.

Configure the Bitbucket Connection

You can configure a connection to Bitbucket from the Connections tab. To add a connection to your Bitbucket account, navigate to the Connections tab.

  1. Click Add Connection.
  2. Select a source (Bitbucket).
  3. Configure the connection properties.

    For most queries, you must set the Workspace. The only exception to this is the Workspaces table, which does not require this property to be set, as querying it provides a list of workspace slugs that can be used to set Workspace. To query this table, you must set Schema to 'Information' and execute the query SELECT * FROM Workspaces>.

    Setting Schema to 'Information' displays general information. To connect to Bitbucket, set these parameters:

    • Schema: To show general information about a workspace, such as its users, repositories, and projects, set this to Information. Otherwise, set this to the schema of the repository or project you are querying. To get a full set of available schemas, query the sys_schemas table.
    • Workspace: Required if you are not querying the Workspaces table. This property is not required for querying the Workspaces table, as that query only returns a list of workspace slugs that can be used to set Workspace.

    Authenticating to Bitbucket

    Bitbucket supports OAuth authentication only. To enable this authentication from all OAuth flows, you must create a custom OAuth application, and set AuthScheme to OAuth.

    Be sure to review the Help documentation for the required connection properties for you specific authentication needs (desktop applications, web applications, and headless machines).

    Creating a custom OAuth application

    From your Bitbucket account:

    1. Go to Settings (the gear icon) and select Workspace Settings.
    2. In the Apps and Features section, select OAuth Consumers.
    3. Click Add Consumer.
    4. Enter a name and description for your custom application.
    5. Set the callback URL:
      • For desktop applications and headless machines, use http://localhost:33333 or another port number of your choice. The URI you set here becomes the CallbackURL property.
      • For web applications, set the callback URL to a trusted redirect URL. This URL is the web location the user returns to with the token that verifies that your application has been granted access.
    6. If you plan to use client credentials to authenticate, you must select This is a private consumer. In the driver, you must set AuthScheme to client.
    7. Select which permissions to give your OAuth application. These determine what data you can read and write with it.
    8. To save the new custom application, click Save.
    9. After the application has been saved, you can select it to view its settings. The application's Key and Secret are displayed. Record these for future use. You will use the Key to set the OAuthClientId and the Secret to set the OAuthClientSecret.
    👁 Configuring a Source connection (Salesforce is shown).
  4. Click Connect to Bitbucket to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
  5. Click Save & Test to save the changes.

Configure Replication Queries

CData Sync enables you to control replication with a point-and-click interface and with SQL queries. For each replication you wish to configure, navigate to the Jobs tab and click Add Job. Select the Source and Destination for your replication.

👁 Select Source and Destination connections for the replication.

Replicate Entire Tables

To replicate an entire table, navigate to the Task tab in the Job, click Add Tasks, choose the table(s) from the list of Bitbucket tables you wish to replicate into SQL Server, and click Add Tasks again.

👁 Choose entire tables to replicate (Salesforce is shown).

Customize Your Replication

You can use the Columns and Query tabs of a task to customize your replication. The Columns tab allows you to specify which columns to replicate, rename the columns at the destination, and even perform operations on the source data before replicating. The Query tab allows you to add filters, grouping, and sorting to the replication with the help of SQL queries. 👁 Configure a replication Transform.

Schedule Your Replication

Select the Overview tab in the Job, and click Configure under Schedule. You can schedule a job to run automatically by configuring it to run at specified intervals, ranging from once every 10 minutes to once every month.

👁 Schedule your job to run automatically.

Once you have configured the replication job, click Save Changes. You can configure any number of jobs to manage the replication of your Bitbucket data to SQL Server.

Run the Replication Job

Once all the required configurations are made for the job, select the Bitbucket table you wish to replicate and click Run. After the replication completes successfully, a notification appears, showing the time taken to run the job and the number of rows replicated.

👁 Run the job.

Free Trial & More Information

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