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SSL Connection to MySQL

Posted April 15th, 2008 by dan.dunn
in Data Sources and Performance

My infrastructure changed this week, and now my MySQL database is only accessible through a SSL connection. I have a username and password, and .pem certificate file. Does Tableau support this? I wasn't able to figure out how to connect to the database.

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On April 15th, 2008 James Baker said:

Hi Dan. Is your situation really SSL only, or is SSH tunneling an option for you? Offhand, I don't think Tableau supports making SSL connections directly. However, if you can make an SSH connection to the database machine, you can tunnel Tableau's (and any other) communication on your port 3306 to the remote machine and have a secure connection that way. (See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/windows-and-ssh.html) Here's hoping.

James

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On April 30th, 2008 dan.dunn said:

It really is SSL only as a matter of practice - no SSH. I got them to provide me with an account that wasn't SSL, though, so I'm back in business.

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