About data connections

You can connect to data sources on various server types and use them to create datasets.

You can add and manage connections to the following data sources:

• Relational databases, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, IBM DB2, and others
• Amazon Web Services, such as Amazon Athena, Amazon, Redshift, Amazon RDS, and Amazon Aurora
• Microsoft Azure, such as Azure Synapse and Azure SQLGoogle Cloud, such as Google Cloud SQL and Google AlloyDb
• Snowflake, MongoDB, SingleStore, and many other cloud databases
• Data files (automatically added when you upload a file when creating a dataset)

For the whole list of supported data sources, see Data sources.

You can add a data connection in two ways:

• Directly from the Data connections pane
• During the creation of a dataset

For details on how to add and manage data connections, see the following topics:

• Data connections pane
• Add data connections