Connecting to Amazon Redshift database
Connecting to Amazon Redshift
To connect to Amazon Redshift, click Add documentation and choose Database connection.
On the connection screen choose Amazon Redshift as DBMS.
Connection details
Provide database connection details:
- Host - provide an address of the Redshift endpoint,
- Port - change the default port of the Amazon Redshift instance if required,
- User - provide the username of the user (either root or IAM) that has access to the Redshift database,
- Password - provide the password for the given username,
- SSL mode:
- Disable - don't use SSL,
- Require - connect with SSL. If the server doesn't support SSL, the connection won't be established,
- Database - type in the database name.
You can find most of the connection details in AWS Console -> Redshift Cluster options in the Endpoint field.
In the endpoint URL, you can find the following connection details:
Saving password
You can save the password for later connections by checking the Save password option. Passwords are saved in the repository database.
Importing schema
When the connection is successful, Dataedo will read objects and show a list of objects found. You can choose which objects to import. You can also use advanced filter to narrow down the list of objects.
Confirm the list of objects to import by clicking Next.
The next screen will allow you to change the default name of the documentation under which your schema will be visible in the Dataedo repository.
Click Import to start the import.
When done, close the import window with the Finish button.
Your database schema has been imported to new documentation in the repository.
Importing changes
To sync any changes in the schema in Redshift and reimport any technical metadata, simply choose the Import changes option. You will be asked to connect to Redshift again and changes will be synced from the source.
Scheduling imports
You can also schedule metadata updates using command line files. To do it, after creating documentation use the Save update command option. The downloaded file can be run in the command line, which will reimport changes to your documentation.
Amazon Redshift support
Learn more about Amazon Redshift in Dataedo.
