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Connection Strings for XPO Providers

When you construct a connection string manually and assign it to the CustomStringConnectionParameters property, use the XpoProvider parameter to identify the provider type. Connection string examples are listed in the following table:

Relational Database System

Connection String Sample[1]

Microsoft SQL Server[2]

XpoProvider=MSSqlServer;Data Source=(local);User ID=username;Password=password;Initial Catalog=database;Persist Security Info=true

Microsoft Access

XpoProvider=MSAccess;Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\mydatabase.mdb;User Id=admin;Password=;

XpoProvider=MSAccess;Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=C:\mydatabase.accdb;User Id=admin;Password=;

Microsoft SQL Server CE

XpoProvider=MSSqlServerCE;Data Source=MyDatabase.sdf;Password=MyPassword

Oracle Database

XpoProvider=Oracle;Data Source=TORCL;User ID=MyUserName;Password=MyPassword

XpoProvider=ODP;Data Source=TORCL;User ID=MyUserName;Password=MyPassword

XpoProvider=ODPManaged;Data Source=TORCL;User ID=MyUserName;Password=MyPassword

Amazon Redshift

XpoProvider=Amazon Redshift;Server=127.0.0.1;User ID=MyUserName;Password=MyPassword;Database=MyDatabase;Encoding=UNICODE

Google BigQuery

XpoProvider=BigQuery;ProjectID=myProject;DataSetId=myDataSet;OAuthClientId=myClientId;OAuthClientSecret=mySecret;OAuthRefreshToken=myRefreshToken

XpoProvider=BigQuery;ProjectId=project;DatasetId=dataset;ServiceAccountEmail=example@gmail.com;PrivateKeyFileName=key.p12

Teradata

XpoProvider=Teradata;Data Source=myServerAddress;User ID=myUsername;Password=myPassword;

SAP Sybase Advantage

XpoProvider=Advantage;Data Source=\myserver\myvolume\mypat\mydd.add;ServerType=local;User ID=ASSSYS;TrimTrailingSpaces=true

SAP Sybase ASE

XpoProvider=Ase;Port=5000;Data Source=MyAseServer;User ID=MyUserName;Password=MyPassword;Initial Catalog=MyDatabase;Persist Security Info=true

SAP SQL Anywhere

XpoProvider=Asa;eng=server;uid=user;pwd=password;dbn=database;persist security info=true;

IBM DB2

XpoProvider=DB2;Server=server:port;Database=database;UID=user;PWD=password;

Firebird

XpoProvider=Firebird;DataSource=localhost;User=SYSDBA;Password=masterkey;Database=MyDatabase.fdb;ServerType=0;Charset=NONE

MySQL

XpoProvider=MySql;Server=MyServerAddress;User ID=MyUserName;Password=MyPassword;Database=MyDatabase;Persist Security Info= true;Charset=utf8

Pervasive PSQL

XpoProvider=Pervasive;Server=MyServerAddress;UID=MyUserName;PWD=MyPassword;ServerDSN=MyDatabase

PostgreSQL

XpoProvider=Postgres;Server=127.0.0.1;User ID=MyUserName;Password=MyPassword;Database=MyDatabase;Encoding=UNICODE

VistaDB

XpoProvider=VistaDB;Data Source=C:\mydatabase.vdb4

XpoProvider=VistaDB5;Data Source=C:\mydatabase.vdb5

SQLite

XpoProvider=SQLite;Data Source=filename

XML file

XpoProvider=InMemoryDataStore;data source=D:\Contacts.xml;read only=True

Footnotes
  1. The connection strings demonstrated above are examples. You can specify alternative strings.

  2. The MS SQL Server data provider is automatically specified if you set the “Initial Catalog” parameter and do not use the word “Provider” (for instance, the “XpoProvider” parameter) in the connection string.