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The CData Virtuality Server is currently available in four versions: 2.4, 3, 4, and 25. We recommend checking that you are reading the correct documentation for your version.
The documentation is divided into the following sections:
Introduction provides an overview of CData Virtuality, its capabilities and benefits, and gives information on system requirements, including supported operating systems and database and cloud service compatibility.
Quick Start Guide gives hands-on instructions on how to get started with the SaaS or on-premise Windows version of CData Virtuality and guides through first steps such as connecting data sources and creating views.
Installation and Configuration is aimed mainly at administrators and provides information on installing the CData Virtuality Server and other software, configuring it, and keeping it running smoothly.
User Guide contains an outline of the CData Virtuality Server, a quick start guide, a description of the web user interface, and chapters on communicating with web services and different ways of connecting to the CData Virtuality Server.
Supported Data Sources list the data sources which can be used with the CData Virtuality Server and provides links to more detailed documentation about each of them.
Integrations describes how to connect to the BI and analytics tools supported by the CData Virtuality Server.
Security and Access Control deals with authentication, authorization, and access control topics, including using external credential stores such as Azure Key Vault.
Administration and Management provides information on performance tuning, logging and monitoring, backup and recovery, and other system maintenance topics.
Reference gives technical information on the SQL dialect, procedures, commands, schemas, and other elements used in the CData Virtuality Server. This guide is more of a handbook, although it also includes practical examples; you can find more practical examples in the Zendesk HelpCenter, which contains articles often written based on actual use cases.
Management API provides detailed descriptions for system tables, system procedures, and system views.
Performance Optimization describes ways to improve performance.
Upgrade Guide is a step-by-step manual on how to upgrade your CData Virtuality Server.
Licensing and Copyright contains the license for the use of trial software, a list of third-party open-source components used to develop each component of the software, and third-party licenses.
Tips and Tricks
Before you proceed to read the CData Virtuality Server documentation, you might want to read this section: it contains some practical information to help you get the most out of it.
How to read and use additional information
Some information in the guide is specially formatted to make it easier to single out important information or suggest something practical. There are four types of such information: Info, Tip, Note, and Warning:
Additional information: for example, the feature is implemented starting from a particular version.
Tips, tricks, and hints: for instance, if a process is too time-consuming because it uses lots of data, we may suggest a way to make it more efficient.
Important information and remarks - such as names of properties being case sensitive.
Critically important information - for example, we will include a special warning if the particular procedure deletes all information without further confirmation.
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