Connect to MicroStrategy

This article describes how to use MicroStrategy Workstation with an Azure Databricks cluster or a Databricks SQL warehouse (formerly Databricks SQL endpoint).

Requirements

Before you connect to MicroStrategy manually, you need the following:

• A cluster or SQL warehouse in your Azure Databricks workspace.

  • Compute configuration reference.
  • Create a SQL warehouse.

• The connection details for your cluster or SQL warehouse, specifically the Server Hostname, Port, and HTTP Path values.

  • Get connection details for an Azure Databricks compute resource.

• An Azure Databricks personal access token or a Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) token.. To create a personal access token, follow the steps in Azure Databricks personal access tokens for workspace users.

  Note

  As a security best practice, when you authenticate with automated tools, systems, scripts, and apps, Databricks recommends that you use personal access tokens belonging to service principals instead of workspace users. To create tokens for service principals, see Manage tokens for a service principal.

Connect to MicroStrategy manually

To connect to MicroStrategy manually, do the following:

1. Start MicroStrategy Workstation.
2. In the navigation bar, in the Analysis area, next to Dossiers, click the plus (Create a new dossier) icon.
3. In the Untitled Dossier window, in the Datasets panel, click New Data. If the Datasets pane is not visible, in the navigation bar, click the dataset (Click to Open Datasets Panel) icon.
4. In the Data Sources dialog, click the Databricks icon. If the Databricks icon is not visible, scroll to view it, or in the Search box, enter Databricks.
5. In the Select Import Options, click to Select Tables, Build a Query, or Type a Query, and click Next.
6. In the Import from Table - Select or Import from Table - SQL Editor dialog, next to Data Sources, click the plus (New Data Source) icon.
7. In the Connections dialog, enter a Connection Name.
8. For [JDBC URL], enter the JDBC URL from Step 1. If the URL ends with ;UID=token;PWD=<personal-access-token>, do not include that portion of the URL, as you will provide this information next.
9. If a Token box displays, enter your personal access token from Step 1.
10. If a User box displays, enter the word token.
11. If a Password box displays, enter your personal access token from Step 1.
12. Click Save.

Next steps

To continue using MicroStrategy Workstation, see the following resources on the MicroStrategy website:

• Introduction to Dossiers
• How to Connect to Databricks
• MicroStrategy Workstation Help

Additional resources

Support