Always-on applications rely on automatic failover capabilities and real-time data access. CData Sync integrates live Okta 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 Okta data to SQL Server. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.
- Click Add Connection.
👁 Add a new connection.
- Select the Destinations tab and locate the SQL Server connector.
👁 Configure a Destination connection to SQL Server.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Okta data into SQL Server and utilize it as a destination.
Configure the Okta Connection
You can configure a connection to Okta from the Connections tab. To add a connection to your Okta account, navigate to the Connections tab.
- Click Add Connection.
- Select a source (Okta).
- Configure the connection properties.
To connect to Okta, set the Domain connection string property to your Okta domain.
You will use OAuth to authenticate with Okta, so you need to create a custom OAuth application.
Creating a Custom OAuth Application
From your Okta account:
- Sign in to your Okta developer edition organization with your administrator account.
- In the Admin Console, go to Applications > Applications.
- Click Create App Integration.
- For the Sign-in method, select OIDC - OpenID Connect.
- For Application type, choose Web Application.
- Enter a name for your custom application.
- Set the Grant Type to Authorization Code. If you want the token to be automatically refreshed, also check Refresh Token.
- 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 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.
- In the Assignments section, either select Limit access to selected groups and add a group, or skip group assignment for now.
- Save the OAuth application.
- The application's Client Id and Client Secret are displayed on the application's General tab. Record these for future use. You will use the Client Id to set the OAuthClientId and the Client Secret to set the OAuthClientSecret.
- Check the Assignments tab to confirm that all users who must access the application are assigned to the application.
- On the Okta API Scopes tab, select the scopes you wish to grant to the OAuth application. These scopes determine the data that the app has permission to read, so a scope for a particular view must be granted for the driver to have permission to query that view. To confirm the scopes required for each view, see the view-specific pages in Data Model < Views in the Help documentation.
👁 Configuring a Source connection (Salesforce is shown).
- Click Connect to Okta 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.
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 Okta 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 Okta data to SQL Server.
Run the Replication Job
Once all the required configurations are made for the job, select the Okta 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.
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