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Loading MDF File

prateekrastogi
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‎04-14-2017 10:06 AM

Is it possible to load MDF file and update it using Alteryx? I thought I found a way as seen in attached file but it didn't work. Thanks!

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DanM
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‎04-14-2017 01:06 PM

@prateekrastogi at this time, Alteryx does not support MDF files. 

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xwang2018
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‎09-23-2020 05:12 PM

What I did with the latest version of 2020.2:

(1) move the MDF file and the accompanying log file to my SQL "DATA" folder

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL12.SQLEXPRESS2014\MSSQL\DATA

(2) open my SSMS and attach that MDF file as a new database.

(3) Once it is attached and shows up under my list of SQL databases, I can then use Alteryx Input (Quick Connect from SQL Server) to bring the embedded data table into Alteryx.

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