MSSQL

Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server can be done natively using an IDE or any supported client library. Alternatively, you can use the sqlcmd command line utility for one-off executions.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this guide, you will need to:

• Either create an account in our managed instance or deploy your own hoop.dev instance
• You must be your account administrator to perform the following commands

Features

The table below explains which features are available for this kind of connection.

• Native - This refers to when a database client connects through a specific protocol, such as an IDE or client libraries through hoop connect <connection-name>.
• One Off - This term refers to accessing this connection from hoop web panel.

Feature	Native	One Off	Description
TLS Termination Proxy			The local proxy terminates the connection with TLS, enabling the connection with the remote server to be TLS encrypted.
Audit			The gateway store and audit the queries being issued by the client
Data Masking (Google DLP)			A policy can be enabled to mask sensitive fields dynamically when performing queries in the database.
Data Masking (MS Presidio)			A policy can be enabled to mask sensitive fields dynamically when performing queries in the database.
Credentials Offload			The user authenticates via SSO instead of using database credentials.
Interactive Access			Interactive access is available when using an IDE or connecting via a terminal to perform analysis exploration.

Configuration

Name	Type	Required	Description
HOST	env-var	yes	The IP or Host of the SQL Server
PORT	env-var	yes	The port of the SQL server
USER	env-var	yes	The user with access to the instance
PASS	env-var	yes	The password with access to the instance
DB	env-var	yes	The name of the database to connect (Required when using the connection via the command line).
INSECURE	env-var	no	If the connection will ignore the chain of certificates presented by the server. (the connection will be subject to man-in-the-middle attacks if the network is not reliable. By default, this option is set to false)

Connection Setup

Create a new Database connection in hoop’s web panel.

Connection Usage

CLI

hoop connect <connection-name>

connection: mssql | session: 5531dc59-febc-4eee-af26-96e0e0de6769

---------------------mssql-credentials----------------------
      host=127.0.0.1 port=1444 user=noop password=noop
------------------------------------------------------------
ready to accept connections!

Web panel