Step 4 (RDS): How to connect Amazon RDS Microsoft SQL Database as Data Warehouse Integration

This guide will explain how to connect your Amazon RDS Microsoft SQL Server Database instance to Blendo in order to send your data.

Not a database yet? Read how to setup a Amazon RDS Microsoft SQL Server.

If you have problems connecting check again your access permissions by reading how to setup the Amazon RDS Microsoft SQL Server permissions in our documentation.

It will take only a few minutes to connect and send your data to Amazon RDS Microsoft SQL Database. Blendo makes it easy to send your transactional, marketing and sales data to any source from to Google BigQuery, to Postgres, to Amazon Redshift.

Add Blendo Output (Destination)

A Blendo Output is any destination that you want to send your data to.

Add Amazon RDS Microsoft SQL Server as Destination Output

Permissioning Blendo: In order to ensure Blendo will have access to your MS SQL Server please make sure to white list and allow connection from these two IP addresses: 52.18.126.160/32, and 52.213.36.20/32
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Add SQL Server as Destination Output

1. Go to your Blendo Dashboard.

2. If it is the first time you login to Blendo you will see the screen bellow. Click on the box with SQL Server.

ETL data into your data warehouse

If it is not the first time, you will see the screen bellow. Click the drop-down arrow and then click on Add database.

Load data into Google BigQuery

On the next screen, click on the box with SQL Server.

3. Add your credentials to connect to Microsoft SQL Server.

  • SQL Server Host: It will be something like [name].amazonaws.com
  • SQL Server Port: Leave the default (if you haven’t changed it from your configuration)
  • SQL Server Database: The name of your Microsoft SQL Server database instance.
  • SSL: If you have SSL check this.
  • Username: The username you chose when you setup the database
  • Password: the password.

Setup Azure MS SQL Server Integration

4. Click Validate & Save

Schema Selection

You can also select the Schema where the data will be stored to. This is something that is done during the setup of your data warehouse but instead during the creation of a pipeline. There you can select at which Schema the data from source will be stored at (with public schema as default).

Permissioning Blendo: In order to ensure Blendo will have access to your MS SQL Server please make sure to white list and allow connection from these two IP addresses: 52.18.126.160/32, and 52.213.36.20/32

Next Steps:

You may now connect data sources with it. Blendo will sync all your data from these data sources into your data warehouse.

 

 

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