Versions Before 1.7.0

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Important

This section is applicable to all Alation versions and Redshift OCF Connector versions prior to 1.7.0.

You can configure metadata extraction (MDE) for an OCF data source on the Metadata Extraction tab of the Settings page. Refer to Configure Metadata Extraction for OCF Data Sources for information about the available configuration options.

The default queries that the connector uses to extract metadata can be found in Extraction Queries for Amazon Redshift. You can customize these queries to adjust the extraction to your needs.