Example 4: Setting up a connection via Vertica

Assume that:

• You have already installed the Vertica JDBC driver, and have appended the archive file (vertica-jdk5-6.1.2-0.jar) of the driver to the ADDCLASSPATH variable in the file setenv.bat in <designer_install_root>\bin.
• The Vertica database server is with the following information:

  Database Name: vmartdb
  Driver: com.vertica.jdbc.Driver
  URL: jdbc:vertica://192.168.0.1:5433/vmartdb
  User: dbadmin
  Password: test1234

• A catalog has been created with a default data source.

For details about how to install Vertica, refer to https://my.vertica.com/docs/6.1.x/HTML/index.htm#1318.htm.

Take the following steps to set up a connection which connects JReport Designer to a database via Vertica:

1. Start JReport Designer and open the catalog.
2. In the Data tab of the Catalog Browser, expand the node of the default data source, right-click the Relational node and select Add JDBC Connection from the shortcut menu.
3. In the Get JDBC Connection Information dialog, uncheck the Use ODBC Data Source option.
4. Check the Driver checkbox, and enter the JDBC driver class name com.vertica.jdbc.Driver in the Driver text field.
5. In the URL text field, specify the URL in the format jdbc:vertica://<hostname>:<port>/<SID>. In this example, enter jdbc:vertica://192.168.0.1:5433/vmartdb.
6. Input the user name dbadmin and password test1234 respectively.
7. Click OK to set up the connection.