Connect to Jira Data in Aqua Data Studio

Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism

Access Jira data from tools in Aqua Data Studio such as the Visual Query Builder and the Table Data Editor.

The CData JDBC Driver for Jira integrates Jira data with wizards and analytics in IDEs like Aqua Data Studio. This article shows how to connect to Jira data through the connection manager and execute queries.

About Jira Data Integration

CData simplifies access and integration of live Jira data. Our customers leverage CData connectivity to:

Gain bi-directional access to their Jira objects like issues, projects, and workflows.
Use SQL stored procedures to perform functional actions like changing issues status, creating custom fields, download or uploading an attachment, modifying or retrieving time tracking settings, and more.
Authenticate securely using a variety of methods, including username and password, OAuth, personal access token, API token, Crowd or OKTA SSO, LDAP, and more.

Most users leverage CData solutions to integrate Jira data with their database or data warehouse, whether that's using CData Sync directly or relying on CData's compatibility with platforms like SSIS or Azure Data Factory. Others are looking to get analytics and reporting on live Jira data from preferred analytics tools like Tableau and Power BI.

Learn more about how customers are seamlessly connecting to their Jira data to solve business problems from our blog: Drivers in Focus: Collaboration Tools.

Getting Started

Create a JDBC Data Source

You can use the connection manager to define connection properties and save them in a new JDBC data source. The Jira data source can then be accessed from Aqua Data Studio tools.

In Aqua Data Studio, select Register Server from the Servers menu.
In the Register Server form, select the 'Generic - JDBC' connection.
Enter the following JDBC connection properties:
- Name: Enter a name for the data source; for example, Jira.
- Driver Location: Click the Browse button and select the cdata.jdbc.jira.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
- Driver: Enter the Driver's class name, cdata.jdbc.jira.JIRADriver.
- URL: Enter the JDBC URL, which starts with jdbc:jira: and is followed by a semicolon-separated list of connection properties.
  
  To connect to JIRA, provide the User and Password. Additionally, provide the Url; for example, https://yoursitename.atlassian.net.
  
  Built-in Connection String Designer
  
  For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Jira JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.
```
java -jar cdata.jdbc.jira.jar
```
  Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.
  👁 Using the built-in connection string designer to generate a JDBC URL (Salesforce is shown.)
  A typical JDBC URL is below:
```
jdbc:jira:User=admin;Password=123abc;Url=https://yoursitename.atlassian.net;
```
👁 The JDBC data source, defined by the JAR path, driver class, and JDBC URL. (QuickBooks is shown.)

Query Jira Data

You can now query the tables exposed.

👁 A query executed in the Table Data Editor. (QuickBooks is shown.)

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