Always-on applications rely on automatic failover capabilities and real-time data access. CData Sync integrates live MySQL data into your OneLake instance in Microsoft Fabric, allowing you to consolidate all your data into a single location for archiving, reporting, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and more.
Configure OneLake as a Replication Destination
Using CData Sync, you can replicate MySQL data to OneLake. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.
- Click Add Connection.
👁 Add a new conncetion.
- Click Destinations tab and locate the Azure OneLake connector.
👁 Search for Azure OneLake connector to configure.
- 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 OneLake connector. For more information about installing new connectors, see Connections in the Help documentation.
- After the connected is added, enter the following Basic connection properties under Settings to connect to OneLake:
- Connection Name: Enter a connection name of your choice.
- File Format: Select the file format that you want to use. Sync supports the CSV, PARQUET, and AVRO file formats.
- URI: Enter the path of the file system and folder that contains your files (for example, onelake://Workspace/Test.LakeHouse/Files/CustomFolder).
- Auth Scheme: To connect with an Azure Active Directory (AD) user account, select Azure AD for Auth Scheme. CData Sync provides an embedded OAuth application with which to connect so no additional properties are required.
- Data Model: Specify the data format to use while parsing the selected file format documents and generating the database metadata.
- If you are hosting CData Sync (locally or in your own cloud):
- Use CData CallbackURL: Disable the toggle.
- Callback URL: Enter the Callback URL.
- If you are using CData Sync Cloud, leave the Use CData CallbackURL toggle enabled.
👁 Enter the connection details.
👁 Enter the connection details (contd.).
- Navigate to the Advanced tab and scroll down to the Miscellaneous section.
- In Include Files, enter the file format initially selected.
- Select Create from Insert Mode dropdown. The other Insert Mode options are Overwrite and Batch.
👁 Select an Insert Mode.
- Now, navigate back to Basic settings and click Connect to Azure OneLake.
- Once connected, click Create & Test to save the connection.
👁 Save the connection.
You are now connected to OneLake 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 MySQL data into OneLake and utilize it as a destination.
Configure the MySQL Connection
You can configure a connection to MySQL from the Connections tab. To add a connection to your MySQL account, navigate to the Connections tab.
- Click Add Connection.
- Select a source (MySQL).
- Configure the connection properties.
The CData Provider supports connecting to on-premises and cloud-hosted versions of MySQL such as Amazon RDS for MySQL, Google Cloud SQL for MySQL, Azure Database for MySQL, or Oracle MySQL HeatWave. The Server and Port properties must be set to a MySQL server. If IntegratedSecurity is set to false, then User and Password must be set to valid user credentials. Optionally, Database can be set to connect to a specific database. If not set, tables from all databases will be returned.
SSH Connectivity for MySQL
You can use SSH (Secure Shell) to authenticate with MySQL, whether the instance is hosted on-premises or in supported cloud environments. SSH authentication ensures that access is encrypted (as compared to direct network connections).
SSH Connections to MySQL in Password Auth Mode
To connect to MySQL via SSH in Password Auth mode, set the following connection properties:
- User: MySQL User name
- Password: MySQL Password
- Database: MySQL database name
- Server: MySQL Server name
- Port: MySQL port number like 3306
- UserSSH: "true"
- SSHAuthMode: "Password"
- SSHPort: SSH Port number
- SSHServer: SSH Server name
- SSHUser: SSH User name
- SSHPassword: SSH Password
SSH Connections to MySQL in Public Key Auth Mode
To connect to MySQL via SSH in Password Auth mode, set the following connection properties:
- User: MySQL User name
- Password: MySQL Password
- Database: MySQL database name
- Server: MySQL Server name
- Port: MySQL port number like 3306
- UserSSH: "true"
- SSHAuthMode: "Public_Key"
- SSHPort: SSH Port number
- SSHServer: SSH Server name
- SSHUser: SSH User name
- SSHClientCret: the path for the public key certificate file
👁 Configuring a Source connection (Salesforce is shown).
- Click Connect to MySQL to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
- 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.
Edit the Job
- In the Advanced tab of the Job, click Edit Replicate Options and select the Insert Mode as Single File from the dropdown (If the Insert Mode is selected as "Create" in the OneLake connector.)
👁 Edit Replicate Options and select the insert mode.
- In "Batch" mode, you need to set the Insert Mode in Jobs to File Per Batch.
- In "Overwrite" mode, both Single File and File Per Batch work.
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 MySQL tables you wish to replicate into OneLake, 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 MySQL data to OneLake.
Run the Replication Job
Once all the required configurations are made for the job, select the MySQL 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
Now that you have seen how to replicate MySQL data into OneLake, visit our CData Sync page to explore more about CData Sync and download a free 30-day trial. Start consolidating your enterprise data today!
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