Installing database drivers for Information Designer
To be able to access data from a JDBC-compliant data source with Information Services, you must install the appropriate JDBC driver on the computer that is running Spotfire Server.
About this task
Note: If you have a clustered server deployment, you must install the driver on all computers that run Spotfire Server in the cluster.
Procedure
What to do next
To connect to an external data source, you must also add and/or enable a data source template that matches the database and the specific database driver.
You can add and enable data source templates in two different ways:
Note: The database connection URL, used by the server to connect to the database, may differ for different database drivers; see
Database drivers and database connection URLs.
Parent topic: Information Services