Automate Zoom Data Replication to Azure Synapse

Always-on applications rely on automatic failover capabilities and real-time data access. CData Sync integrates live Zoom data into your Azure Synapse instance, allowing you to consolidate all of your data into a single location for archiving, reporting, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and more.

Configure Azure Synapse as a Replication Destination

Using CData Sync, you can replicate Zoom data to Azure Synapse. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection. 👁 Add a new connection.
   
2. Select the Destinations tab and locate the Azure Synapse connector. 👁 Configure a Destination connection to Azure Synapse.
   
3. 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 Azure Synapse connector. For more information about installing new connectors, see Connections in the Help documentation.
4. To connect to Azure Synapse, set the following connection properties:
   • Connection Name: Enter a connection name of your choice for the Azure Synapse connection.
   • Server: Enter the name of the server that runs Azure Synapse.
   • Port: Enter the port number for Azure Synapse. The default port value is 1433.
   • Database: Enter the name of the Azure Synapse database.
   • Auth Scheme:
   • Auth Scheme: Select the Auth Scheme as Password. The available auth schmes for Azure Synapse are AzureAD, Azure MSI, AzureServicePrincipal, AzureServicePrincipalCert, Azure Password, and Password.
   • User: Enter the username that you use to authenticate to your Azure Synapse account.
   • Password: Enter the password that you use to authenticate to your Azure Synapse account.
👁 Enter the connection details.

5. Once connected, click Create & Test to create, test and save the connection.

You are now connected to Azure Synapse 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 Zoom data into Azure Synapse and utilize it as a destination.

Configure the Zoom Connection

You can configure a connection to Zoom from the Connections tab. To add a connection to your Zoom account, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection.
2. Select a source (Zoom).
3. Configure the connection properties.
   
   

   Zoom API Profile Settings

   To authenticate to Zoom, you can use the OAuth standard to connect to your own data or to allow other users to connect to their data.

   First create an OAuth app. To do so, navigate to https://marketplace.zoom.us/develop/create and click Create under the OAuth section. Select whether or not the app will be for individual users or for the entire account, and uncheck the box to publish the app. Give the app a name and click Create. You will then be given your Client Secret and Client ID

   After setting the following connection properties, you are ready to connect:

   • OAuthClientID: Set this to the OAuth Client ID that is specified in your app settings.
   • OAuthClientSecret: Set this to the OAuth Client Secret that is specified in your app settings.
   • CallbackURL: Set this to the Redirect URI you specified in your app settings.
   👁 Configuring a Source connection (Salesforce is shown).
   
4. Click Connect to Zoom to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
5. 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 Zoom tables you wish to replicate into Azure Synapse, 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 Zoom data to Azure Synapse.

Run the Replication Job

Once all the required configurations are made for the job, select the Zoom 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 Zoom data into Azure Synapse, 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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