Redshift

Connect & Ingest data from / to a Redshift database
Sling CLI Setup
The following credentials keys are accepted:
host (required) -> The hostname / ip of the instance
user (required) -> he username to access the instance
database (required) -> The database name of the instance
aws_bucket (required) -> The name of the S3 Bucket for Bulk Loading / Unloading
aws_access_key_id (required) -> The AWS Access Key ID to access the bucket for Bulk Loading / Unloading
aws_secret_access_key (required) -> The AWS Secret Key to access the bucket for Bulk Loading / Unloading
schema (optional) -> The default schema to use when loading
password (optional) -> The password to access the instance
port (optional) -> The port of the instance. Default is 5439.
ssh_tunnel (optional) -> The URL of the SSH server you would like to use as a tunnel (example ssh://user:[email protected]:22)
ssh_private_key (optional) -> The private key to use to access a SSH server.
Here is an example of setting a connection named REDSHIFT. We must provide the type=redshift property:
$ sling conns set REDSHIFT type=redshift host=<host> user=<user> database=<database> password=<password> port=<port> aws_bucket=<aws_bucket> aws_access_key_id=<aws_access_key_id> aws_secret_access_key=<aws_secret_access_key>
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# OR use url
$ sling conns set REDSHIFT url=redshift://myuser:[email protected]:5439/mydatabase aws_bucket=<aws_bucket> aws_access_key_id=<aws_access_key_id> aws_secret_access_key=<aws_secret_access_key>
Environment Variable
export REDSHIFT='redshift://myuser:[email protected]:5439/mydatabase'
export AWS_BUCKET='<aws_bucket> '
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='<aws_access_key_id> '
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='<aws_secret_access_key> '
Database user creation
To allow Sling to access your database, we need to create a user with the proper privileges. Please follow the steps below:
1.Create a user sling (or whatever you prefer) by running:
CREATE USER sling WITH PASSWORD '<password>';
2.If you are planning to load data into this connection, grant the following privileges to that user:
GRANT CREATE ON DATABASE <database_name> TO sling;
3.If you are planning to extract data from this connection, you need to give permission to read the tables you'd like Sling to extract.
-- Need this to read table & column names 
GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA information_schema TO sling;
GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA pg_catalog TO sling;
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-- run this to grant SELECT permission to all tables in schema `marketing` to user sling
GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA marketing TO sling;
If you are facing issues connecting, please reach out to us at [email protected].
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