Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL Database Spatial Writer Parameters

This parameter specifies a database connection for the reader through a drop-down menu. The Add Database Connection option in the menu allows for a new connection to be created. The new connection can be made visible only to the current user, or can be shared among multiple users.

The host name of the Microsoft SQL Server or Azure SQL database. (It is not necessary to specify a port if a default configuration is used.)

If you have configured your Microsoft SQL Server database to use a non-standard port number, you can specify this port here.

The correct syntax is:

<Host Name or IP>,<port>

The name of the database to connect to.

Enter the username and password to access the database, user account, or wherever authentication is required.

• Windows Authentication: Select this option when connecting through a Windows user account, and the database can validate the account name and password using the Windows principal token in the operating system. Since the user account is retrieved by Windows, the Username and Password parameters are ignored.
• SQL Server Authentication: Select this option to proceed with specifying login credentials through the Username and Password parameters.

Note: Note: This parameter is not present in the Azure SQL Database reader and writer. The Azure SQL Database reader and writer will always request Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encrypted connections.

When selected, this parameter requests Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption for the connection. If the server does not have a certificate trusted by the client machine, the connection will fail. Otherwise, data will be encrypted before traveling over the network. There are multiple ways to trust a server certificate on a client machine.

If this parameter is not selected, encryption behavior will be determined by encryption properties set for SQL Server Native Client, and for SQL Server.

Note: Tip: When Encrypt Connection is selected, please provide a fully qualified Server name. For example, a server named safe-sql-server might have a fully qualified name of safe-sql-server.dev.safe. This fully qualified name should be an exact match for the server name on the trusted certificate.

Specifies whether to write geometry (planar data) or geography (geodetic data) when writing to tables. This parameter works only in combination with the Spatial Column parameter.

Specifies the geometry or geography column to use when writing to tables. This parameter works only in combination with the Spatial Type parameter.