USER MANUALS

Data Source Configuration Properties

The configuration properties of a JDBC or an ODBC data source, also called source configuration, specify certain characteristics of the underlying source such as the operations they support.

The Execution Engine uses this information to know which operations are supported by the source, in order to push down to the data source as much processing as possible to optimize response times and minimize traffic through the network.

Note

Usually, users do not need to change these settings since Virtual DataPort automatically uses suitable configurations for most common data sources.

You can define them in the “Source configuration” tab of the data source or by adding them to the statement CREATE DATASOURCE.

The table below lists the properties you can configure in the SOURCECONFIGURATION clause of the data sources. On the left column, you have the name of each property; on the right column, the label of this property in the administration tool, in the tab “Source configuration” of the data source. To find the meaning of a property, go to the section Data Source Configuration Properties of the Administration Guide.

Properties of the SOURCECONFIGURATION clause of data sources

Property Name in SOURCECONFIGURATION Clause

Property Name in the Administration Tool (Source configuration tab)

ALLOWFORUPDATE

Allow for UPDATE clause

ALLOWLITERALASPARAMETER

Allow literal as parameter

DELEGATEAGGREGATEFUNCTIONS

Delegate aggregate functions list

DELEGATEALLOPERATORS

Delegate all operators

DELEGATEANALYTICFUNCTIONSLIST

Delegate analytic functions list

DELEGATEARRAYLITERAL

Delegate array literal

DELEGATE_BINARY_ORDERBY_COLLATION

Delegate binary ORDER BY collation

DELEGATECOMPOUNDFIELDPROJECTION

Delegate compound field projection

DELEGATEFETCH

Delegate FETCH clause

DELEGATEGROUPBY

Delegate GROUP BY clause

DELEGATEHAVING

Delegate HAVING clause

DELEGATEINNERJOIN

Delegate INNER JOIN

DELEGATEINTERSECTION

Delegate INTERSECT

DELEGATEINVALIDNUMBERLITERALSASNULL

Delegate invalid number literals as NULL

DELEGATEJOIN

Delegate JOIN

DELEGATELEFTFUNCTION

Delegate left function

DELEGATELEFTLITERAL

Delegate left literal

DELEGATELITERALEXPRESSION

Delegate literal expression

DELEGATEMINUS

Delegate MINUS

DELEGATEMIXEDAGGREGATEEXPRESSION

Delegate mixed literal expression

DELEGATENATURALOUTERJOIN

Delegate natural OUTER JOIN

DELEGATENOTCONDITION

Delegate NOT condition

DELEGATEOFFSET

Delegate OFFSET clause

DELEGATE_OFFSET_RESTRICTION

Delegate OFFSET clause restriction

DELEGATEOPERATORSLIST

Delegate operators list

DELEGATEORCONDITION

Delegate OR condition

DELEGATEORDERBY

Delegate ORDER BY

DELEGATE_ORDERBY_COLLATION_MODIFIER

Delegate ORDER BY collation modifier

DELEGATEPROJECTION

Delegate projection

DELEGATEREGISTERLITERAL

Delegate register literal

DELEGATERIGHTFIELD

Delegate right field

DELEGATERIGHTFUNCTION

Delegate right function

DELEGATERIGHTLITERAL

Delegate right literal

DELEGATESCALARFUNCTIONS

Delegate scalar functions list

DELEGATESELECTDISTINCT

Delegate SELECT DISTINCT

DELEGATESELECTION

Delegate selection

DELEGATESUBQUERY

Delegate subquery

DELEGATEUNION

Delegate UNION

NESTEDJOINWITHBLOCKSSTRATEGY

Nested join optimization syntax

SUPPORTSAGGREGATEFUNCTIONSOPTIONS

Supports modifier in aggregate function

SUPPORTSBATCHINSERT

Supports batch inserts

SUPPORTSBRANCHOUTERJOIN

Supports branch OUTER JOIN

SUPPORTSCLOBINBATCH

Supports CLOBs in batch inserts

SUPPORTSEQOUTERJOINOPERATOR

Supports Eq OUTER JOIN

SUPPORTSEXPLICITCROSSJOIN

Supports explicit CROSS JOIN

SUPPORTSFULLEQOUTERJOIN

Supports full Eq OUTER JOIN

SUPPORTSFULLNOTEQOUTERJOIN

Supports full NotEq OUTER JOIN

SUPPORTSFUSINGINUSINGANDNATURALJOIN

Supports fusing in USING and natural JOIN

SUPPORTSGROUPBYLITERALASPARAMETER

Supports GROUP BY literals as parameters

SUPPORTSJOINONCONDITION

Supports JOIN ON Condition

SUPPORTSNATURALJOIN

Supports NATURAL JOIN

SUPPORTS_ORDERBY_BINARY_COLLATION

Supports binary ORDER BY collation

SUPPORTSORDERBYEXPRESSION

Supports ORDER BY expressions

SUPPORTSRIGHTDEEPJOIN

Supports right deep n-joins

SUPPORTSPREPAREDSTATEMENT

Supports prepared statements

SUPPORTSUSINGJOIN

Supports USING JOIN

CONTAINS Operator Configuration Properties

The CONTAINS operator allows executing complex Boolean keyword searches on text-type attributes from an external index of unstructured data (e.g. Google Search data sources).

The syntax of the search language on unstructured data is described in the section Syntax of Search Expressions for the Contains Operator.

Custom-type wrappers can also specify the search language capacities that are supported through Operator Configuration Properties. This way, other external indexes besides Google Search ones can be imported in Virtual DataPort. This section describes these properties.

  • Supports And. This takes the value true if searches with the logic operator AND are supported, and the value false, if they are not.

  • Supports OR. This takes the value true if searches with the logic operator OR are supported, and the value false, if they are not.

  • Supports Not. This takes the value true if searches with the logic operator NOT are supported and the value false, if they are not.

  • Supports Exact Search. This takes the value true if searches by exact phrase are supported and the value false, if they are not.

  • Supports One Wildcards First Position. This takes the value true, if the wildcard matches with just one character (i.e. the wildcard ?) in the first position of a term are supported.

  • Supports One Wildcards Rest Position. This takes the value true if the wildcard matches with just one character (i.e. the wildcard “?”) in the remaining positions of a term other than the first are supported.

  • Supports Multi Wildcards First Position. This takes the value true if wildcards that match with multiple characters (i.e. the wildcard *) are supported in the first position of a term.

  • Supports Multi Wildcards Rest Position. This takes the value true, if wildcards that match with multiple characters (i.e. the wildcard *) are supported in the remaining positions of a term other than the first.

  • Supports Fuzzy Terms without Minimum Relevance. This takes the value true if fuzzy searches without specifying a minimum similarity threshold are supported.

  • Supports Fuzzy Terms with Minimum Relevance. This takes the value true, if fuzzy searches specifying a minimum similarity threshold are supported.

  • Supports Proximity Terms Without Maximum Distance. This takes the value true, if searches by proximity without specifying a maximum distance among the terms are supported.

  • Supports Proximity Terms With Maximum Distance. This takes the value true, if searches by proximity specifying a maximum distance among the terms are supported.

  • Supports Boosting Terms without Boosting Factor. This takes the value true, if the relevance boosting specification is supported for a term without specifying a specific boosting factor.

  • Supports Boosting Terms with Boosting Factor. This takes the value true, if the relevance boosting specification is supported for a term specifying a specific boosting factor.

  • Supports Inclusive Range Search. This takes the value true, if range searches are supported (inclusive).

  • Supports Exclusive Range Search. This takes the value true, if range searches are supported (exclusive).

  • Supports Field Grouping. This takes the value true, if the combination of logic operators AND and OR is supported using brackets. For example: title contains '(term1 AND term2) OR (term3)'

  • Supports Grouping. This takes the value true, if the combination of logic operators AND and OR in different query conditions is supported. For example: title contains 'term1' AND (content contains 'term2' OR summary contains 'term3')

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