LINQ to Redshift Data

This article illustrates using LINQ to access tables within the Redshift via the CData ADO.NET Data Provider for Redshift. To achieve this, we will use LINQ to Entity Framework, which facilitates the generation of connections and can be seamlessly employed with any CData ADO.NET Data Providers to access data through LINQ.

See the help documentation for a guide to setting up an EF 6 project to use the provider.

1. In a new project in Visual Studio, right-click on the project and choose to add a new item. Add an ADO.NET Entity Data Model.
2. Choose EF Designer from Database and click Next.
3. Add a new Data Connection, and change your data source type to "CData Redshift Data Source".

4. Enter your data source connection information.

   To connect to Redshift, set the following:

   • : Set this to the host name or IP address of the cluster hosting the Database you want to connect to.
   • : Set this to the port of the cluster.
   • : Set this to the name of the database. Or, leave this blank to use the default database of the authenticated user.
   • : Set this to the username you want to use to authenticate to the Server.
   • : Set this to the password you want to use to authenticate to the Server.

   You can obtain the and values in the AWS Management Console:

   1. Open the Amazon Redshift console (http://console.aws.amazon.com/redshift).
   2. On the Clusters page, click the name of the cluster.
   3. On the Configuration tab for the cluster, copy the cluster URL from the connection strings displayed.

   Below is a typical connection string:

   User=admin;Password=admin;Database=dev;Server=examplecluster.my.us-west-2.redshift.amazonaws.com;Port=5439;

👁 Required connection properties for the data source. (QuickBooks is shown.)

5. If saving your entity connection to App.Config, set an entity name. In this example we are setting RedshiftEntities as our entity connection in App.Config.
6. Enter a model name and select any tables or views you would like to include in the model.

Using the entity you created, you can now perform select , update, delete, and insert commands. For example:

RedshiftEntities context = new RedshiftEntities();

var ordersQuery = from orders in context.Orders
 select orders;

foreach (var result in ordersQuery) {
 Console.WriteLine("{0} {1} ", result.Id, result.ShipName);
}

See "LINQ and Entity Framework" chapter in the help documentation for example queries of the supported LINQ.