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If you are upgrading your Database Connector, follow the Database Connector Upgrade Guide instead of the steps on this page.

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  1. Stop the Standalone Database Connector
  2. Edit the dbconnector.properties in the database-connector-2.5.x\config directory of the standalone installation. The dbconnector.properties file is where you can customize database connection properties (such as server port) and configure datasource definitions. Add the datasource definitions for your querysets/queries to this file then save it.

    If all of your querysets are run against the same database, you can add these properties to define the datasource for all of them. The example shown below is for a MySQL database.

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    # Customize the DbConnector here
    logging.file=./logs/database-connector.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log
    server.port=8081
    
    dbconnector.queryset.resource-def.url=<the url to your database>
    dbconnector.queryset.resource-def.user=<your database username>
    dbconnector.queryset.resource-def.password=<your database password>
    

    If your querysets are run against different databases, then you must configure the resource definition for each one.

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    # Customize the DbConnector here
    logging.file=./logs/database-connector.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log
    server.port=8081
    
    dbconnector.queryset@myStore.resource-def.url=jdbc:mysql://database1:3306/classicmodels
    dbconnector.queryset@myStore.resource-def.user=root
    dbconnector.queryset@myStore.resource-def.password=root
    
    dbconnector.queryset@BIRT.resource-def.url=jdbc:mysql://database2:1433/studentdb
    dbconnector.queryset@BIRT.resource-def.user=root
    dbconnector.queryset@BIRT.resource-def.password=root

    Let's take a look at the properties in this example:

    • the server.port property specifies the default port number for the standalone Database Connector. If you are running it on a different port, change the port number here
    • the logging.file property creates a database logfile in database-connector-2.5.x\logs named database-connector.YYYY-MM-DD
    • the next section provides the resource URL, database user and password for the myStore queryset which is run against a MySQL database named classicmodels on port 3306 on a server named database1
    • the next section provides the resource URL, database user and password for the BIRT queryset which is run against a MySQL database named studentdb on port 1433 on a server named database2

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      You can see more examples of datasource definitions here

  3. Create your configuration.xml file in the <db-home>\database\database-connector-2.5.x\config directory. Add the contents below, which defines querysets named myStore and BIRT, to your configuration.xml file to get you started. Refer to the Defining SQL Queries topic for detailed information about the configuration.xml file content.

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    <dbconnector>
       <queryset name="myStore">    
        </queryset>
        
        <queryset name="BIRT">
        </queryset>    
        
    </dbconnector>
  4. Restart the connector using one of these methods:

    1. Open a command prompt and navigate to the <db-home>\database\database-connector-2.5.x directory
      Type java -jar database.war

    2. Click the Restart-DBConnector-Service.bat,sh to restart  the service for your operating system if you instl. Click below for a list of the batch files and shell scripts that come with the connector.

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  5. Browse the http://localhost:8081/database/status page

  6. Verify that query validation page is loaded with status Passed and is pointing to your custom configuration.xml file.

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If you prefer to define your datasources on the container level, the recommended approach is to define the datasource in the container and then use a resource-ref in the Database Connector properties file to reference it..  
 

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Using <Resource-ref> to define datasources is not supported if you are running the Database Connector in Standalone mode. Use <Resource-def> instead.

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  1. Add the enabled= attribute with a value of false to the <querySet/> or individual <query> elements in the configuration.xml file to completely disable it.

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    <dbconnector>
      <querySet name="BIRT" enabled="false" ...>
  2. The same can be done by adding the enabled property with a value of false as shown below to the dbconnector.properties(standalone bundle) or frevvo-config.properties (tomcat bundle).  

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    dbconnector.querySet@<queryset name>.enabled=false

    This property disables all querysets. Add it to the dbconnector.properties(standalone bundle) or frevvo-config.properties (tomcat bundle).

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    dbconnector.querySet.enabled=false

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