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⇱ Connect to SharePoint Data in Airbyte ELT Pipelines

Connect to SharePoint Data in Airbyte ELT Pipelines

👁 Dibyendu Datta
Dibyendu Datta
Lead Technology Evangelist
Use CData Connect AI to build ELT pipelines for SharePoint data in Airbyte.

Airbyte empowers users to load your data into any data warehouse, data lake, or database. When combined with CData Connect AI, Airbyte users can create Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) pipelines directly from live SharePoint data. This article illustrates the process of connecting to SharePoint through Connect AI and constructing ELT pipelines for SharePoint data within Airbyte.

CData Connect AI offers a dedicated SQL Server interface for SharePoint, facilitating data querying without the need for data replication to a native database. With built-in optimized data processing capabilities, CData Connect AI efficiently directs all supported SQL operations, including filters and JOINs, straight to SharePoint. This harnesses server-side processing to swiftly retrieve the desired SharePoint data.

About SharePoint Data Integration

Accessing and integrating live data from SharePoint has never been easier with CData. Customers rely on CData connectivity to:

  • Access data from a wide range of SharePoint versions, including Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and above, and SharePoint Online.
  • Access all of SharePoint thanks to support for Hidden and Lookup columns.
  • Recursively scan folders to create a relational model of all SharePoint data.
  • Use SQL stored procedures to upload and download documents and attachments.

Most customers rely on CData solutions to integrate SharePoint data into their database or data warehouse, while others integrate their SharePoint data with preferred data tools, like Power BI, Tableau, or Excel.

For more information on how customers are solving problems with CData's SharePoint solutions, refer to our blog: Drivers in Focus: Collaboration Tools.


Getting Started


Configure SharePoint Connectivity for Airbyte

Connectivity to SharePoint from Airbyte is made possible through CData Connect AI. To work with SharePoint data from Airbyte, we start by creating and configuring a SharePoint connection.

  1. Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection
    2. 👁 Adding a Connection
  2. Select "SharePoint" from the Add Connection panel
    3. 👁 Selecting a data source
  3. Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to SharePoint.

    Set the URL property to the base SharePoint site or to a sub-site. This allows you to query any lists and other SharePoint entities defined for the site or sub-site.

    The User and Password properties, under the Authentication section, must be set to valid SharePoint user credentials when using SharePoint On-Premise.

    If you are connecting to SharePoint Online, set the SharePointEdition to SHAREPOINTONLINE along with the User and Password connection string properties. For more details on connecting to SharePoint Online, see the "Getting Started" chapter of the help documentation

    👁 Configuring a connection (Salesforce is shown)
  4. Click Save & Test
  5. Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add SharePoint Connection page and update the User-based permissions. 👁 Updating permissions

Add a Personal Access Token

When connecting to Connect AI through the REST API, the OData API, or the Virtual SQL Server, a Personal Access Token (PAT) is used to authenticate the connection to Connect AI. It is best practice to create a separate PAT for each service to maintain granularity of access.

  1. Click on the Gear icon () at the top right of the Connect AI app to open the settings page.
  2. On the Settings page, go to the Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
  3. Give the PAT a name and click Create. 👁 Creating a new PAT
  4. The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.

With the connection configured and a PAT generated, you are ready to connect to SharePoint data from Airbyte.

Connect to SharePoint from Airbyte

To establish a connection from Airbyte to CData Connect AI, follow these steps.

  1. Log in to your Airbyte account 👁 Logging into Airbyte
  2. On the left panel, click Sources, then Add New Source
    • Set Source Type to MSSQL Server to connect the TDS endpoint
    • Set Source Name
    • Set Host URL to tds.cdata.com
    • Set Port to 14333
    • Set Database to the name of the connection you previously configured, e.g. SharePoint1.
    • Set Username to your Connect AI username
    • Set SSL Method to Encrypted (trust server certificate), leave the Replication Method as standard, and set SSH Tunnel Method to No Tunnel
    • (Optional) Set Schema to anything you want to apply to the source
    • Set Password to your Connect AI PAT
    • (Optional) Enter any needed JBDC URL Params
  3. Click Test and Save to create the data source.
👁 Configuring the connection to Connect AI

Create ELT Pipelines for SharePoint Data

To connect SharePoint data with a new destination, click Sources and then Set Up Connection to connect to your destination. Select the source created above and your desired destination, then allow Airbyte to process. When it is done, your connection is ready for use.

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