Connecting Amazon Q Business to Amazon RDS (Microsoft SQL Server) using APIs

You use the CreateDataSource action to connect a data source to your Amazon Q Business application.

Then, you use the configuration parameter to provide a JSON schema with all other configuration information specific to your data source connector.

Amazon RDS (Microsoft SQL Server) JSON schema

The following is the Amazon RDS (Microsoft SQL Server) JSON schema:

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "connectionConfiguration": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "repositoryEndpointMetadata": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "dbType": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "mysql",
                "db2",
                "postgresql",
                "oracle",
                "sqlserver"
              ]
            },
            "dbHost": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "dbPort": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "dbInstance": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "dbType",
            "dbHost",
            "dbPort",
            "dbInstance"
          ]
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "repositoryEndpointMetadata"
      ]
    },
    "repositoryConfigurations": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "document": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "fieldMappings": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": [
                {
                  "type": "object",
                  "properties": {
                    "indexFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "indexFieldType": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "dataSourceFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    }
                  },
                  "required": [
                    "indexFieldName",
                    "indexFieldType",
                    "dataSourceFieldName"
                  ]
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "fieldMappings"
          ]
        }
      },
      "required": [
      ]
    },
    "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "primaryKey": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "titleColumn": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "bodyColumn": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "sqlQuery": {
          "type": "string",
          "not": {
            "pattern": ";+"
          }
        },
        "timestampColumn": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "timestampFormat": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "timezone": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "changeDetectingColumns": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "allowedUsersColumn": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "allowedGroupsColumn": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "sourceURIColumn": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "serverlessAurora": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": ["true", "false"]
        }
      },
      "required": ["primaryKey", "titleColumn", "bodyColumn", "sqlQuery"]
    },
    "type" : {
      "type" : "string",
      "pattern": "JDBC"
    },
    "syncMode": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "FORCED_FULL_CRAWL",
        "FULL_CRAWL"
      ]
    },
    "secretArn": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "version": {
    "type": "string",
    "anyOf": [
      {
        "pattern": "1.0.0"
      }
    ]
  },
  "required": [
      "connectionConfiguration",
      "repositoryConfigurations",
      "syncMode",
      "additionalProperties",
      "secretArn",
      "type"
  ]
}

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The following table provides information about important JSON keys to configure.

Configuration	Description
connectionConfiguration	Configuration information for the endpoint for the data source.
repositoryEndpointMetadata	Required configuration information for connecting your data source. dbType—The type of Java database you are using, whether mysql, db2, postgresql, oracle, or sqlserver. dbHost—The database host name. dbPort—The database port. dbInstance—The database instance.
repositoryConfigurations	Configuration information for the content of the data source. For example, configuring specific types of content and field mappings. Specify the type of data source and the secret ARN.
document	A list of objects that map the attributes or field names of your database content to Amazon Q index field names. For more information, see Mapping data source fields.
additionalProperties	Additional configuration options for your content in your data source. Use to include or exclude specific content in your database data source.
primaryKey	Provide the primary key for the database table. This identifies a table within your database.
titleColumn	Provide the name of the document title column within your database table.
bodyColumn	Provide the name of the document title column within your database table.
sqlQuery	Enter SQL query statements like SELECT and JOIN operations. SQL queries must be less than 1000 characters and not contain any semi-colons (;). Amazon Q will crawl all database content that matches your query. If a table name has special characters, put it in square brackets "[ ]" in the SQL query. For example: select * from [my-database-table].
timestampColumn	Enter the name of the column which contains time stamps. Amazon Q uses time stamp information to detect changes in your content and sync only changed content.
timestampFormat	Enter the name of the column which contains time stamp formats to use to detect content changes and re-sync your content.
timezone	Enter the name of the column which contains time zones for the content to be crawled.
changeDetectingColumns	Enter the names of the columns that Amazon Q will use to detect content changes. Amazon Q will re-index content when there is a change in any of these columns
allowedUsersColumns	Enter the name of the column which contains User IDs to be allowed access to content.
allowedGroupsColumn	Enter the name of the column which contains User IDs to be allowed access to content.
sourceURIColumn	Enter the name of the column which contains Source URLs to be indexed.
isSslEnabled	true to add a path to an SSL certificate file stored in an Amazon S3 bucket.
type	The type of data source. Specify JDBC as your data source type.
syncMode	Specify whether Amazon Q should update your index by syncing all documents or only new, modified, and deleted documents. You can choose FORCED_FULL_CRAWL to freshly re-crawl all content and replace existing content each time your data source syncs with your index FULL_CRAWL to incrementally crawl only new, modified, and deleted content each time your data source syncs with your index CHANGE_LOG to incrementally crawl only new and modified content each time your data source syncs with your index.
secretArn	The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a Secrets Manager secret that contains user name and password required to connect to your database. The secret must contain a JSON structure with the following keys: { "username": "database username", "password": "password" }
version	The version of the template that is currently supported.