Microsoft SQL Server Connector Guide > Microsoft SQL Server Connections > Microsoft SQL Server Connection Properties
  

Microsoft SQL Server Connection Properties

When you set up a Microsoft SQL Server connection, you must configure the connection properties.
The following table describes the Microsoft SQL Server connection properties:
Connection Property
Description
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run the tasks.
SQL Server Version
Microsoft SQL Server database version.
Authentication Mode
Authentication method to access Microsoft SQL Server. Select one of the following methods:
  • - Windows Authentication. Use Microsoft Windows authentication to access Microsoft SQL Server. This option is available when you access Informatica Cloud using Microsoft Windows. When you choose this option, you do not need to enter credentials to access Microsoft SQL Server.
  • - SQL Server. Enter your Microsoft SQL Server user name and password to access Microsoft SQL Server.
User Name
User name for the database login. Does not apply if you use Windows authentication mode to access Microsoft SQL Server. The user name cannot contain a semicolon.
Specify the username in the following format to connect to Microsoft Azure SQL databases: username@host
Password
Password for the database login. Does not apply if you use Windows authentication mode to access Microsoft SQL Server. The password cannot contain a semicolon.
Host
Name of the machine hosting the database server.
Specify the fully qualified host name to connect to Microsoft Azure SQL databases.
Port
Network port number used to connect to the database server. Default port number is 1433.
Instance Name
Instance name of the Microsoft SQL Server database.
Database Name
Database name for the Microsoft SQL Server target. Database name is case sensitive if the database is case sensitive. Maximum length is 100 characters.
Database names can include alphanumeric and underscore characters.
Schema
Schema used for the target connection.
Code Page
The code page of the database server. Select one of the following code pages:
  • - MS Windows Latin 1. Select for ISO 8859-1 Western European data.
  • - UTF-8. Select for Unicode data.
  • - Shift-JIS. Select for double-byte character data.
  • - ISO 8859-15 Latin 9 (Western European).
  • - ISO 8859-2 Eastern European.
  • - ISO 8859-3 Southeast European.
  • - ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic.
  • - ISO 8859-9 Latin 5 (Turkish).
  • - IBM EBCDIC International Latin-1.
Encryption Method
The method that the driver uses to encrypt the data sent between the driver and the database server. You can use the encryption method to connect to Microsoft Azure SQL Databases.
Crypto Protocol Version
Cryptographic protocols to use when you enable SSL encryption.
Validate Server Certificate
Determines whether the driver validates the certificate sent by the database server when SSL encryption is enabled. Set the value to true for the driver to validate the server certificate.
Trust Store
The location and name of the trust store file. The trust store file contains a list of Certificate Authorities (CAs) that the driver uses for SSL server authentication.
Trust Store Password
The password to access the contents of the trust store file.
Host Name in Certificate
The host name that is established by the SSL administrator for the driver to validate the host name contained in the certificate.