SQL Server OCF Connector

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Core Connector Core connectors are included with all Alation platform tiers (subject to each tier’s connector limits) and are fully supported by Alation.

This section contains topics that explain how to install and configure the OCF connector for SQL Server. This connector can be used to catalog metadata from SQL Server and Azure SQL Managed Instance.

Important

With Alation version 2024.1 or higher and SQL Server OCF connector version 1.5.0 or higher, Alation has introduced an enhanced user interface for configuring the SQL Server data source settings.