Last updated: Nov 26, 2024
To access your data in Amazon Redshift, create a connection asset for it.
Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse product that forms part of the larger cloud-computing platform Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Create a connection to Amazon Redshift
To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:
- Database name
- Hostname or IP address
- Port number
- Username and password
- SSL certificate (if required by the database server)
Choose the method for creating a connection based on where you are in the platform
- In a project
- Click Assets > New asset > Connect to a data source. See Adding a connection to a project.
- In a catalog
- Click Add to catalog > Connection. See Adding a connection asset to a catalog.
- In a deployment space
- Click Import assets > Data access > Connection. See Adding data assets to a deployment space.
- In the Platform assets catalog
- Click New connection. See Adding platform connections.
Next step: Add data assets from the connection
Where you can use this connection
You can use Amazon Redshift connections in the following workspaces and tools:
Projects
- Data quality rules (IBM Knowledge Catalog). See Supported data sources for curation and data quality.
- Data Refinery (watsonx.ai Studio or IBM Knowledge Catalog)
- DataStage (DataStage service). See Connecting to a data source in DataStage.
- Metadata enrichment (IBM Knowledge Catalog). See Supported data sources for curation and data quality.
- Metadata import (IBM Knowledge Catalog). See Supported data sources for curation and data quality.
- SPSS Modeler (watsonx.ai Studio)
Catalogs
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Platform assets catalog
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Other catalogs (IBM Knowledge Catalog)
- Data Virtualization service
- You can connect to this data source from Data Virtualization.
Amazon Redshift setup
See Amazon Redshift setup prerequisites for setup information.
Running SQL statements
To ensure that your SQL statements run correctly, refer to the Amazon Redshift documentation for the correct syntax.
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Parent topic: Supported connections