There are some terms that you need to understand before you begin
working with common connection configurations.
The following terms are used to describe the common connection configuration
functionality in this product:
- Configuration repository
- A set of database tables that contain connection groups and connection
configurations.
- Connection configuration
- A set of required property values that are used to create database connections.
These properties include: the database version; database vendor; port number;
and host name.
- Connection group
- A virtual folder in a configuration repository that contains related connection
configurations. Connection groups are not required but they are useful for
organizing related connection configurations. For example:
- A QA team might organize connections by platform in their test environment.
- A sales team might organize connection groups by geography.
- A retail team might use connection groups to identify which database servers
contain sales information by quarter or by year.