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Prerequisites

  • If your MySQL database is protected by security groups or other firewall settings, you will need to have our static IP available to complete Step 1.
1

Allow access

Create a rule in a security group or firewall settings to whitelist:
  • incoming connections to your host and port (usually 3306) from the static IP.
  • outgoing connections from ports 1024 to 65535 to the static IP.
2

Create reader user

Create a database user to perform the reading of the source data.
  1. Open a connection to your MySQL database.
  2. Create a user for the data transfer by executing the following SQL command.
Create reader user
  1. Grant user required privileges on the relevant tables.
Grant table privileges
3

Add your source

Securely share your host name, database name, port, your chosen schema name, username, and password with us to complete the connection.