Manage connections
Learn about connection management tasks including how to edit, clone, and delete connections.
View connection details
Select a connection from the Database connections page to view its details. On the
Connection details page, you can:
- View connection details such as:
- Connection name, description, when it was created, and when it was last updated
- Database type, hostname, port, username, connector, and connection type
- Connection role (source or target)
- Edit the connection details
- Validate the connection details
- Clone the connection
- Delete the connection
Edit a connection
To edit a connection:
- On the Database connections page, select a connection to edit. You're brought to the connection's detail page.
- On the connection's detail page, click Edit.
- In the Configure Database Connection Configuration panel, review the connection settings, make your updates, and then click Next to progress though the Edit connection pages.
- Click Save changes.
Clone a connection
To clone a connection:
- On the Database connections page, select the connection to clone. You're brought to the connection's details page.
- On the connection details page, click Clone.
You're brought back to the Database connections page, where the cloned
connection appears in the list.
Validate a connection
If you create a connection without completing the database validation,
then you must validate the connection before you can use it in a pipeline.
To validate a connection:
You're brought back to the Database connections page.
Delete a connection
Before you delete a connection, ensure that the connection is not currently in use
by an active pipeline.
To delete a connection:
- On the Database connections page, select the connection to delete. You're brought to the connection details page.
- On the connection details page, click Delete.
- In the Delete connection dialog, confirm that you want to delete the connection, and then click Delete.
The Database connections list is refreshed and the deleted connection
removed. You cannot undo a delete operation.