Microsoft Advertising Connections

Microsoft Advertising is a service that provides pay per click advertising on the Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines. For more information, go to https://ads.microsoft.com/.

Tip

This connection is in early preview. It is read-only and available only in SaaS product editions. For more information on early previews, go toe Early Preview Connection Types.

Limitations and Requirements

Note

During normal selection or import of an entire table, you may encounter an error indicating a problem with a specific column. Since some tables require filtering based on a particular column, data from them can only be ingested using custom SQL statements. In this case, the problematic column can be used as a filter in the WHERE clause of a custom SQL statement to ingest the table.

For more information, please consult the CData driver documentation for the specific table.
For more information on using custom SQL, go to Create Dataset with SQL.

Note

For filtering date columns, this connection type supports a set of literal functions on dates. You can use these to reduce the volume of data extracted from the database using a custom SQL query. For more information, see the pg_dateliteralfunctions.htm page in the driver documentation for this connection type.

OAuth 2.0 authentication is required.
- An OAuth 2.0 web client is created for you in Alteryx Analytics Cloud (AAC).
- You cannot create OAuth 2.0 connections via API.
- You must be authorized before connecting to the Microsoft Advertising datastore.

Create Connection

via AAC

When you create the connection, please review the following properties and specify them accordingly:

Connection Property	Description
AccountId	The Account ID associated with Microsoft Advertising. For example, 180591599 .
CustomerId	Customer ID of the authenticated user. For example, 251766494.
Connect String Options	The following default value sets the connection timeout in seconds: Timeout=0; Setting this value to `0` disables timeouts.
OAuth 2.0 client	The client is displayed. When you create a connection that uses OAuth 2.0, the specified connection must be authorized to be given access to the Microsoft Advertising server. Note After you have specified the connection to use OAuth 2.0, click Authenticate to validate the connection with the Microsoft Advertising server . This step is mandatory.
Default Column Data Type Inference	Leave this value as `Enabled`.

For more information, go to the driver documentation https://cdn.cdata.com/help/EZJ/jdbc/default.htm.

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