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⇱ Manage Mailgun Data in DBArtisan as a JDBC Source


Manage Mailgun Data in DBArtisan as a JDBC Source

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Use wizards in DBArtisan to create a JDBC data source for Mailgun.

The CData JDBC Driver for Mailgun seamlessly integrates Mailgun data into database management tools like DBArtisan by enabling you to access Mailgun data as a database. This article shows how to create a JDBC source for Mailgun in DBArtisan. You can then edit data visually and execute standard SQL.

Integrate Mailgun Data into DBArtisan Projects

Follow the steps below to register Mailgun data as a database instance in your project:

  1. In DBArtisan, click Data Source -> Register Datasource.
  2. Select Generic JDBC.
  3. Click Manage.
  4. In the resulting dialog, click New. Enter a name for the driver and click Add. In the resulting dialog, navigate to the driver JAR. The driver JAR is located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory. 👁 The JDBC driver definition in the Register Datasource wizard. (Salesforce is shown.)
  5. In the Connection URL box, enter credentials and other required connection properties in the JDBC URL.

    Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Mailgun Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Mailgun.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Mailgun (see below).

    Mailgun API Profile Settings

    Generate an API key in your Mailgun account by selecting Account Settings > API Security > Create Key from the account dropdown menu.

    Built-in Connection String Designer

    For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Mailgun JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

    java -jar cdata.jdbc.api.jar
    

    Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

    👁 Required JDBC connection properties in the Register Datasource wizard. (Salesforce is shown.)

    Below is a typical connection string:

    jdbc:api:Profile=C:\profiles\Mailgun.apip;ProfileSettings='Password=your_api_key';
  6. Finish the wizard to connect to Mailgun data. Mailgun entities are displayed in the Datasource Explorer.

You can now work with Mailgun data as you work with any other database. See the driver help documentation for more information on the queries supported by the Mailgun API.

👁 The results of a query. (Salesforce is shown.)