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Connections

Prophecy lets you work with various data providers when building your pipelines. To read and write data from external sources, create connections inside a Prophecy fabric.

When you attach to a fabric with connections, you can:

  • Reuse credentials that are established in the connection.
  • Browse data from the data provider in the Environment browser of your Prophecy project.
  • Auto-index data for search in the Prophecy interface.

Connections access​

Prophecy controls access to connections through fabric-level permissions. To access a connection, you must have access to the fabric that contains the connection. You can only access fabrics that are assigned to one of your teams.

Connections access diagram

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Most connections are only used to read from and write to data sources. The SQL Warehouse connection is an exception—it also provides the compute environment for pipeline execution.

Add a new connection​

To configure a new connection in a Prophecy fabric:

  • Open the Metadata page from the left sidebar in Prophecy.
  • Navigate to the Fabric tab.
  • Open the fabric where you want to add the connection.
  • Navigate to the Connections tab.
  • Click + Add Connection. This opens the Create Connection dialog.
  • Select a data provider from the list of connection types.
  • Click Next to open the connection details.
  • Configure the connection and save your changes.

Learn about individual connection parameters in the connection's respective reference page.

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You can also create connections inside the project editor.

What's next​

Visit the following pages to learn more about available connections.