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Status Planned for future release
Workspace SPSS Modeler
Components SPSS CNDS
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 26, 2020

SPSS CNDS access SQL databases hosted on cloud

Would love to have SPSS CNDS access sql databases hosted on Cloud(azure sql database or azure sql managed instance or AWS RDS). As an organization direction to move to cloud, recently we have spun up Azure sql database as a service and tried to point out CNDS to Azure SQL Database and access application, application failed with connectivity errors.We have spun up azure sql managed instance, tried pointing out CNDS to managed instance ran into similar issues i.e application couldn't come up and failed with database connectivity errors.Upon reaching out to product support, we were told that SPSS CNDS doesn't support any cloud offerings.As there is no other way and hit and dead end with product not supporting cloud offerings, have to revert back to traditional method i.e host a database on on premises.

Needed by Date Jan 1, 2021