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SQL Server

Integrating with Microsoft SQL Server

Updated over 6 months ago

Summary

This document explains the steps needed to prepare your Microsoft SQL environment for a dScribe connection.

This connector catalogs all tables, views, columns and intra-lineage between the tables and/or views. If you also make use of an Power BI connector, dependencies between both sources will be automatically documented.

Prerequisites

You have installed the dScribe agent. If you haven't yet, take a look here.

Step-by-step guide

  1. Create a user on the SQL database you would like to catalog. The minimal rights that we require for the user are:

    1. SELECT permission on sys.sql_expression_dependencies

    2. VIEW DEFINITION permission

  2. The following information will be needed to setup a connection in dScribe: hostname, database, username, password

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