Zoho DataPrep allows you to import data from Rackspace Cloud MySQL, a standalone, API-based relational database service built on OpenStack® cloud that allows Rackspace customers to easily provision and manage multiple MySQL database instances.

To import data from Rackspace Cloud MySQL  

1. Create a pipeline or open an existing pipeline from the Home Page, Pipelines tab or Workspaces tab and click the Add data option. You can also click the Import data option under the Workspaces tab to import data.  

Info: You can also click the Import data  icon at the top of the pipeline builder and bring data from multiple sources into the pipeline.

Note: If you had already added a Rackspace Cloud MySQL connection, choose the required connection under the Saved connections category and proceed to import. To learn more about Saved connections, click here.

3. Select Rackspace Cloud in the Database service name dropdown and MySQL in the database type.

4. Enter the Endpoint, Port, Database name, username, and password to authenticate the database connection.

5. Enter a unique name for your connection under Connection name.

6. You can also select the Use SSL checkbox if your database server has been setup to serve encrypted data through SSL.

7. Click the Connect button.

Note: The connection configuration will be saved for importing data in the future. Credentials are securely encrypted and stored.

8. Select the tables that need to be imported.

9. You can also Use SQL query option to select and import data.

The incremental fetch option is not available when the data is imported using a query from databases. Click here to know more about incremental fetch from cloud database.

10. Click Import to begin importing data from your account.

11. Once you complete importing data, the Pipeline builder page opens and you can start applying transforms. You can also right-click the stage and choose the Prepare data option to prepare your data using various transforms in the DataPrep Studio page. Click here to know more about the transforms. 

12. Once you are done creating your data flow and applying necessary transforms in your stages, you can right-click a stage and add a destination to complete your data flow.

Note:  After adding a destination to the pipeline, you can try executing your pipeline using a manual run at first. Once you make sure manual run works, you can then set up schedule to automate the pipeline. Learn about the different types of runs here.

While configuring the Schedule, Backfill, Manual reload, Webhooks, or Zoho Flow, the import configuration needs to be mandatorily setup for all the sources. Without setting up the import configuration, the run cannot be saved. Click here to know more about how to set up import configuration.

13. After configuring a run, a pipeline job will be created at the run time. You can view the status of a job with the granular details in the Job summary. Click here to know more about the job summary.

To edit the Rackspace Cloud MySQL connection  

DataPrep saves your data connections to avoid the hassle of keying in the credentials every time you need to connect to a data source or destination. You can always edit the saved data connection and update them with new parameters or credentials using the Edit connection option.

3. Click the Edit connection option. You can update all the parameters and credentials in the saved connection and click Update.

See Also

How to export data to Rackspace Cloud MySQL?

Learn about importing data using saved data connections.

Importing data from cloud storage services.

Learn about schedule.

Import data from local databases.