Connection String Options

The connection string properties are the various options that can be used to establish a connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection string for this provider. Click the links for further details.


Auth Scheme The scheme used for HTTP authentication. Accepted entries are NTLM, Basic, Digest, Negotiate and None.
Auth Token The token used for authentication.
Firewall Password A password used to authenticate to a proxy-based firewall.
Firewall Port The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall.
Firewall Server The name or IP address of a proxy-based firewall.
Firewall Type The protocol used by a proxy-based firewall.
Firewall User The user name to use to authenticate with a proxy-based firewall.
Format The Format property specifies whether the data is in RSS or ATOM.
Generate Schema Files Indicates the user preference as to when schemas should be generated and saved.
Location A path to the directory that contains the schema files defining tables, views, and stored procedures.
Log Modules Core modules to be included in the log file.
Max Rows Limits the number of rows returned rows when no aggregation or group by is used in the query. This helps avoid performance issues at design time.
Other These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases.
Proxy Auth Scheme The authentication type to use to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy.
Proxy Auto Detect This indicates whether to use the system proxy settings or not. This takes precedence over other proxy settings, so you'll need to set ProxyAutoDetect to FALSE in order use custom proxy settings.
Proxy Exceptions A semicolon separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the ProxyServer .
Proxy Password A password to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy.
Proxy Port The TCP port the ProxyServer proxy is running on.
Proxy Server The hostname or IP address of a proxy to route HTTP traffic through.
Proxy SSL Type The SSL type to use when connecting to the ProxyServer proxy.
Proxy User A user name to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy.
SSL Server Cert The certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL.
Timeout The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation.
URI The URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) of the feed.