Lightup account setup

Lightup supports connections to MS-SQL 2012.

Lightup needs a user account that can query data and metadata for all tables and views you want to monitor. You might already have a user set up that will work, or you might need to create one. We recommend you use a role to provide sufficient privileges to the Lightup user.

Create a Lightup user

Run the following T-SQL, substituting in a password for the Lightup user.

CREATE LOGIN lightup WITH PASSWORD = '********';
GO
CREATE USER lightup FOR LOGIN lightup;
GO 
CREATE ROLE lightup_role;
GO
GRANT SELECT ON SCHEMA :: [SELECT SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id) AS schema_name FROM sys.objects]  TO lightup_role;
GO
GRANT ROLE lightup_role TO lightup;
GO

Configure connector

Host Name - The hostname for the datasource (check the browser address bar; you want the string between // and /. Example: https://host.na.me/
Database Name - The name of the database you're connecting to. Each datasource can only connect to one database. If you need to connect to more than one, you'll need to create a datasource for each.
Username - Enter lightup.
Password - The lightup account's password.

Advanced/Schema scan frequency

You can adjust how often scans run for a datasource.

In section 3 - Advanced, select a value for Schema scan frequency: Hourly, Daily, or Weekly.

Query Governance

Microsoft-SQL datasources support the Query History, Scheduling, Enable data storage, Maximum backfill duration, and Maximum distinct values settings. For steps, see Set query governance settings for a datasource.

Metadata metrics

For information about supported metadata metrics, see Metadata metric types.

Date/time data types

These MS-SQL date/time data types are supported:

Object types

These MS-SQL object types are supported:

Tables
Views