Data Director Connection Strings

This shows several examples of connection strings that you can use in your setup. In most cases it is just a matter of copying the string shown and changing the database name, user, and password.

The DD connection string consists of three sections: database-specific connection string, database type, and database-specific string. These three parts are separated by the “|” symbol. Each section is configured with parameters that can be different for each database type.

Syntax: <database connection string>|<database type id>|<database specific string>

Supported database types are:

Types	Specific Str	Description
mssql	none	Microsoft SQL Server Database
mssql	schema=xxx	Microsoft SQL Server Database with different schema name for table than default dbo
ms	navxx	Direct SQL access to NAV SQL Database not using CFront (xx is the NAV version number) and only to be used for NAV Version 11 and older
ms	bc	Direct SQL access to BC/365 SQL Database
lsws	none	LS Central SaaS Web Service v1
lsws	s2s	LS Central SaaS Web Service v1 using oAuth (S2S) for authentication
file	none	Export/Import Data to/from file Tab delimited with txt extension
file	xxx@d	Export/Import Data to/from file (xxx is the file extension and d is tab delimiter character)
xml	none	Export/Import Data to/from XML file (values as Elements)
xml	attr	Export/Import Data to/from XML file (values as Attributes)
oledb	none	OleDB access to Database
odbc	none	ODBC access to Database
mysql	none	MySQL Database Server
ext		External Data Processing using DDDatabaseExt process.

DD knows how to process connection strings designed for one type of database and use them to connect to a different type of database. For example, a NAV native connection string can be used to connect to an SQL database, as DD knows different commands for each item in the connection string.

These are the commands that DD understands for connection string item:

Database Server:	server, data source, address, network address
Database Name:	initial catalog, database, dbname, datapath
Database User Name:	user id, user, uid
Database User Password:	passwd, password, pwd
Database Security Mode:	integrated security, trusted_connection
Network Library	nt, net, network library
LS Location id:	locationid, id
LS Central Company Name	company

NAV 2013-2018 Additional Object replication commands for finsql process:

navservername	navsrv
navserverinstance	navinst
navservermanagementport	navport
tenant	navten
synchronizeschemachanges	navsync

For information on how to put together a connection string for your database, see http://www.connectionstrings.com/. This site has samples of the most common database servers and data providers out there.

If a connection string does have some special features that do not fit the current rules that DD expects, then put “cust” in <database specific string> value and DD will use the connection string as is without trying to process it.

The following are examples of connection strings:

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 BC – LS Central Web Service v1
  company=mycompany;server=http://myserver:7047/BC130/WS/mycompany/Codeunit/RetailWebServices;user=nav;passwd=navpwd;|lsws|none

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 BC – SaaS
  server=http://myserver.dynamics.com/Production/WS/mycompany/Codeunit/RetailWebServices;user=ClientId;passwd=ClientSecret;Database=TenantId;|lsws|s2s

• Microsoft Dynamics NAV 201x – Standard Connection
  company=mycompany;Initial Catalog=mydata;Data Source=myserver;User ID=dd;Password=ddpwd;|ms|nav80

• Microsoft Dynamics NAV 201x – Trusted Connection
  company=mycompany;Initial Catalog=mydata;Data Source=myserver;Integrated Security=SSPI;|ms|nav80

• Microsoft Dynamics NAV 201x – Server Tier/Instance for FOB import
  company=mycompany;Initial Catalog=mydata;Data Source=myserver;Integrated Security=SSPI;navsrv=myserver;navten=mytenant;navport=7045;navinst=myinstance;|ms|nav80

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 BC – Standard Connection
  company=mycompany;Initial Catalog=mydata;Data Source=myserver;User ID=dd;Password=ddpwd;|ms|bc

• Microsoft SQL Server – Standard Connection
  Initial Catalog=mydata;Data Source=myserver;User ID=dd;Password=ddpwd;|mssql|none

• Microsoft SQL Server – Trusted Connection
  Initial Catalog=mydata;Data Source=myserver;Integrated Security=SSPI;|mssql|none

• Microsoft SQL Server – Trusted Connection with user login
  Initial Catalog=mydata;Data Source=myserver;Integrated Security=SSPI;User=domain\dd; Password=ddpwd;|mssql|none

• OleDB – Standard Connection
  Provider=SQLOLEDB;Initial Catalog=mydata;Data Source=myserver;User Id=dd;Password=ddpwd;|oledb|none

• ODBC – Standard Connection
  Provider=SQLOLEDB;Initial Catalog=mydata;Data Source=myserver;User Id=dd;Password=ddpwd;|odbc|none

• Semicomma separated File Import / Export
  Database=mydatafolderpath;|file|csv@;

• XML File Import / Export
  Database=myxmlfolderpath;|xml|none