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# alterDatasource

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          <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1AlterDatasourceResponse">AlterDatasourceResponse</a> gpudb::GPUdb::alterDatasource </td>
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      <p>Alters the properties of an existing <a href="/content/concepts/data_sources/" target="_top">data source</a>. </p>

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          <td className="paramtype">const <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1AlterDatasourceRequest">AlterDatasourceRequest</a> &</td>
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      <p>Alters the properties of an existing <a href="/content/concepts/data_sources/" target="_top">data source</a>. </p>

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              <td className="paramname">name</td>
              <td>Name of the data source to be altered. Must be an existing data source. </td>
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              <td className="paramdir">\[in]</td>
              <td className="paramname">datasourceUpdatesMap</td>

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                Map containing the properties of the data source to be updated. Error if empty.

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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#af8497eaf16bc2aea3e553f6a3501b7e2">alter\_datasource\_location</a>: Location of the remote storage in 'storage\_provider\_type://\[storage\_path\[:storage\_port]]' format. Supported storage provider types are 'azure', 'gcs', 'hdfs', 'jdbc', 'kafka', 'confluent', and 's3'. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a06012612c3b635c25e068e0533249363">alter\_datasource\_user\_name</a>: Name of the remote system user; may be an empty string. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a3226f4e55cedc9b18e8ce7cce906302f">alter\_datasource\_password</a>: Password for the remote system user; may be an empty string. </li>

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#aba1f199ee9f1244f3d6dcbbe6e370500">alter\_datasource\_skip\_validation</a>: Bypass validation of connection to remote source. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#af209ca4cd1ba64854cd11e52ed910152">alter\_datasource\_connection\_timeout</a>: Timeout in seconds for connecting to this storage provider. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a3654059dce581fb3e63e0526bd415a2d">alter\_datasource\_wait\_timeout</a>: Timeout in seconds for reading from this storage provider. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a4f6b541a5152ea0d3794cb27a4782d29">alter\_datasource\_credential</a>: Name of the <a href="/content/concepts/credentials" target="_top">credential</a> object to be used in data source. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#af98882b9da4954d2aa21f7a91a4c2d43">alter\_datasource\_s3\_bucket\_name</a>: Name of the Amazon S3 bucket to use as the data source. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#afb544f9acdc2341bf63ddacea0c9399d">alter\_datasource\_s3\_region</a>: Name of the Amazon S3 region where the given bucket is located. </li>

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a17a3e455fe0c8a54743f4ee37bbb0bce">alter\_datasource\_s3\_verify\_ssl</a>: Whether to verify SSL connections. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>: Connect with SSL verification. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a>: Connect without verifying the SSL connection; for testing purposes, bypassing TLS errors, self-signed certificates, etc. </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>.
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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ae5a7497ba4a26e07e9938d61fe54d7f5">alter\_datasource\_s3\_use\_virtual\_addressing</a>: Whether to use virtual addressing when referencing the Amazon S3 source. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>: The requests URI should be specified in virtual-hosted-style format where the bucket name is part of the domain name in the URL. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a>: Use path-style URI for requests. </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a76d7b2dd5078e99de59aefa1bfac614b">alter\_datasource\_s3\_aws\_role\_arn</a>: Amazon IAM Role ARN which has required S3 permissions that can be assumed for the given S3 IAM user. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#aa9fa675f796deccb2805644c95898623">alter\_datasource\_s3\_encryption\_customer\_algorithm</a>: Customer encryption algorithm used encrypting data. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a6da8588299b9ee8e6439ce1d2e3327f4">alter\_datasource\_s3\_encryption\_customer\_key</a>: Customer encryption key to encrypt or decrypt data. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a20faf20a9a1bbf2efe986ece3182182c">alter\_datasource\_hdfs\_kerberos\_keytab</a>: Kerberos keytab file location for the given HDFS user. This may be a KIFS file. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ab7224734a4e63696598e503fb310da4f">alter\_datasource\_hdfs\_delegation\_token</a>: Delegation token for the given HDFS user. </li>

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a11ad9f37ce99035ff55f23409a0018a9">alter\_datasource\_hdfs\_use\_kerberos</a>: Use kerberos authentication for the given HDFS cluster. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a0b166f996feb54eb6aa2772b374dd392">alter\_datasource\_azure\_storage\_account\_name</a>: Name of the Azure storage account to use as the data source, this is valid only if tenant\_id is specified. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a0236877027c5a809d1b62d2229c6d584">alter\_datasource\_azure\_container\_name</a>: Name of the Azure storage container to use as the data source. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#aa77015ad62dbd6d10419174c01523312">alter\_datasource\_azure\_tenant\_id</a>: Active Directory tenant ID (or directory ID). </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ae3be2ab2ec2a18c9649e1276b0915c7e">alter\_datasource\_azure\_sas\_token</a>: Shared access signature token for Azure storage account to use as the data source. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#aec538da3127feedcf3717fdc8830652e">alter\_datasource\_azure\_oauth\_token</a>: OAuth token to access given storage container. </li>

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#aac94e88fd57259762a48a965a3da605d">alter\_datasource\_azure\_use\_virtual\_addressing</a>: Whether to use virtual addressing when referencing the Azure source. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>: The requests URI should be specified in virtual-hosted-style format where the bucket name is part of the domain name in the URL. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a>: Use path-style URI for requests. </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#afc37b10a838c08afb0e6ff32eb09df0a">alter\_datasource\_gcs\_bucket\_name</a>: Name of the Google Cloud Storage bucket to use as the data source. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a7da4deea17fc1d2f9283870299ac75a2">alter\_datasource\_gcs\_project\_id</a>: Name of the Google Cloud project to use as the data source. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad2f47224c932660d0b28bdb7b737058f">alter\_datasource\_gcs\_service\_account\_keys</a>: Google Cloud service account keys to use for authenticating the data source. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a6ea3edc5cb23521b40871574b3d85b61">alter\_datasource\_jdbc\_driver\_jar\_path</a>: JDBC driver jar file location. This may be a KIFS file. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a7bb2c6d9166576d0fd62cbf7e324dd7f">alter\_datasource\_jdbc\_driver\_class\_name</a>: Name of the JDBC driver class. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a7533eddbbface67e917b1307bca1b9da">alter\_datasource\_kafka\_url</a>: The publicly-accessible full path URL to the Kafka broker, e.g., '<a href="http://172.123.45.67:9300'">[http://172.123.45.67:9300](http://172.123.45.67:9300)'</a>. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a051a3ce84dd6c1d95df06bd645812621">alter\_datasource\_kafka\_topic\_name</a>: Name of the Kafka topic to use as the data source. </li>

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad09212fd53c092a5acf1b03177c329b8">alter\_datasource\_anonymous</a>: Create an anonymous connection to the storage provider–DEPRECATED: this is now the default. Specify use\_managed\_credentials for non-anonymous connection. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>.
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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#acef615d5fa89eed86339b2355ed7509a">alter\_datasource\_use\_managed\_credentials</a>: When no credentials are supplied, we use anonymous access by default. If this is set, we will use cloud provider user settings. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a> </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a>.
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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a9f62457558511fb5806510b8f39765bd">alter\_datasource\_use\_https</a>: Use HTTPS to connect to datasource if true, otherwise use HTTP. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a> </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5b04e6c0c712a6c522b3fe6aea7fe061">alter\_datasource\_schema\_name</a>: Updates the schema name. If <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5b04e6c0c712a6c522b3fe6aea7fe061">schema\_name</a> doesn't exist, an error will be thrown. If <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5b04e6c0c712a6c522b3fe6aea7fe061">schema\_name</a> is empty, then the user's default schema will be used. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a936838344693c9f2598f212023284123">alter\_datasource\_schema\_registry\_connection\_retries</a>: Confluent Schema registry connection timeout (in secs). </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a50bdcf0b287a5c6a551edecd5735bd28">alter\_datasource\_schema\_registry\_connection\_timeout</a>: Confluent Schema registry connection timeout (in secs). </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a81c3fe9533b8e35c601890252db60224">alter\_datasource\_schema\_registry\_credential</a>: Confluent Schema Registry <a href="/content/concepts/credentials" target="_top">credential</a> object name. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a30f762cdc2e8299349a90892c2e86b05">alter\_datasource\_schema\_registry\_location</a>: Location of Confluent Schema Registry in '\[storage\_path\[:storage\_port]]' format. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a542c7df8280abc966bbe8c592921591f">alter\_datasource\_schema\_registry\_port</a>: Confluent Schema Registry port (optional). </li>
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        <div className="dd"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1AlterDatasourceResponse">Response</a> object containing the result of the operation. </div>
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      <p>Alters the properties of an existing <a href="/content/concepts/data_sources/" target="_top">data source</a>. </p>

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                Map containing the properties of the data source to be updated. Error if empty.

                <ul>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#af8497eaf16bc2aea3e553f6a3501b7e2">alter\_datasource\_location</a>: Location of the remote storage in 'storage\_provider\_type://\[storage\_path\[:storage\_port]]' format. Supported storage provider types are 'azure', 'gcs', 'hdfs', 'jdbc', 'kafka', 'confluent', and 's3'. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a06012612c3b635c25e068e0533249363">alter\_datasource\_user\_name</a>: Name of the remote system user; may be an empty string. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a3226f4e55cedc9b18e8ce7cce906302f">alter\_datasource\_password</a>: Password for the remote system user; may be an empty string. </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#aba1f199ee9f1244f3d6dcbbe6e370500">alter\_datasource\_skip\_validation</a>: Bypass validation of connection to remote source. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a> </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a>.
                  </li>

                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#af209ca4cd1ba64854cd11e52ed910152">alter\_datasource\_connection\_timeout</a>: Timeout in seconds for connecting to this storage provider. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a3654059dce581fb3e63e0526bd415a2d">alter\_datasource\_wait\_timeout</a>: Timeout in seconds for reading from this storage provider. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a4f6b541a5152ea0d3794cb27a4782d29">alter\_datasource\_credential</a>: Name of the <a href="/content/concepts/credentials" target="_top">credential</a> object to be used in data source. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#af98882b9da4954d2aa21f7a91a4c2d43">alter\_datasource\_s3\_bucket\_name</a>: Name of the Amazon S3 bucket to use as the data source. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#afb544f9acdc2341bf63ddacea0c9399d">alter\_datasource\_s3\_region</a>: Name of the Amazon S3 region where the given bucket is located. </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a17a3e455fe0c8a54743f4ee37bbb0bce">alter\_datasource\_s3\_verify\_ssl</a>: Whether to verify SSL connections. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>: Connect with SSL verification. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a>: Connect without verifying the SSL connection; for testing purposes, bypassing TLS errors, self-signed certificates, etc. </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>.
                  </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ae5a7497ba4a26e07e9938d61fe54d7f5">alter\_datasource\_s3\_use\_virtual\_addressing</a>: Whether to use virtual addressing when referencing the Amazon S3 source. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>: The requests URI should be specified in virtual-hosted-style format where the bucket name is part of the domain name in the URL. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a>: Use path-style URI for requests. </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>.
                  </li>

                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a76d7b2dd5078e99de59aefa1bfac614b">alter\_datasource\_s3\_aws\_role\_arn</a>: Amazon IAM Role ARN which has required S3 permissions that can be assumed for the given S3 IAM user. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#aa9fa675f796deccb2805644c95898623">alter\_datasource\_s3\_encryption\_customer\_algorithm</a>: Customer encryption algorithm used encrypting data. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a6da8588299b9ee8e6439ce1d2e3327f4">alter\_datasource\_s3\_encryption\_customer\_key</a>: Customer encryption key to encrypt or decrypt data. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a20faf20a9a1bbf2efe986ece3182182c">alter\_datasource\_hdfs\_kerberos\_keytab</a>: Kerberos keytab file location for the given HDFS user. This may be a KIFS file. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ab7224734a4e63696598e503fb310da4f">alter\_datasource\_hdfs\_delegation\_token</a>: Delegation token for the given HDFS user. </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a11ad9f37ce99035ff55f23409a0018a9">alter\_datasource\_hdfs\_use\_kerberos</a>: Use kerberos authentication for the given HDFS cluster. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a> </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a>.
                  </li>

                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a0b166f996feb54eb6aa2772b374dd392">alter\_datasource\_azure\_storage\_account\_name</a>: Name of the Azure storage account to use as the data source, this is valid only if tenant\_id is specified. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a0236877027c5a809d1b62d2229c6d584">alter\_datasource\_azure\_container\_name</a>: Name of the Azure storage container to use as the data source. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#aa77015ad62dbd6d10419174c01523312">alter\_datasource\_azure\_tenant\_id</a>: Active Directory tenant ID (or directory ID). </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ae3be2ab2ec2a18c9649e1276b0915c7e">alter\_datasource\_azure\_sas\_token</a>: Shared access signature token for Azure storage account to use as the data source. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#aec538da3127feedcf3717fdc8830652e">alter\_datasource\_azure\_oauth\_token</a>: OAuth token to access given storage container. </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#aac94e88fd57259762a48a965a3da605d">alter\_datasource\_azure\_use\_virtual\_addressing</a>: Whether to use virtual addressing when referencing the Azure source. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>: The requests URI should be specified in virtual-hosted-style format where the bucket name is part of the domain name in the URL. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a>: Use path-style URI for requests. </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>.
                  </li>

                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#afc37b10a838c08afb0e6ff32eb09df0a">alter\_datasource\_gcs\_bucket\_name</a>: Name of the Google Cloud Storage bucket to use as the data source. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a7da4deea17fc1d2f9283870299ac75a2">alter\_datasource\_gcs\_project\_id</a>: Name of the Google Cloud project to use as the data source. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad2f47224c932660d0b28bdb7b737058f">alter\_datasource\_gcs\_service\_account\_keys</a>: Google Cloud service account keys to use for authenticating the data source. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a6ea3edc5cb23521b40871574b3d85b61">alter\_datasource\_jdbc\_driver\_jar\_path</a>: JDBC driver jar file location. This may be a KIFS file. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a7bb2c6d9166576d0fd62cbf7e324dd7f">alter\_datasource\_jdbc\_driver\_class\_name</a>: Name of the JDBC driver class. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a7533eddbbface67e917b1307bca1b9da">alter\_datasource\_kafka\_url</a>: The publicly-accessible full path URL to the Kafka broker, e.g., '<a href="http://172.123.45.67:9300'">[http://172.123.45.67:9300](http://172.123.45.67:9300)'</a>. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a051a3ce84dd6c1d95df06bd645812621">alter\_datasource\_kafka\_topic\_name</a>: Name of the Kafka topic to use as the data source. </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad09212fd53c092a5acf1b03177c329b8">alter\_datasource\_anonymous</a>: Create an anonymous connection to the storage provider–DEPRECATED: this is now the default. Specify use\_managed\_credentials for non-anonymous connection. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a> </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>.
                  </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#acef615d5fa89eed86339b2355ed7509a">alter\_datasource\_use\_managed\_credentials</a>: When no credentials are supplied, we use anonymous access by default. If this is set, we will use cloud provider user settings. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a> </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a>.
                  </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a9f62457558511fb5806510b8f39765bd">alter\_datasource\_use\_https</a>: Use HTTPS to connect to datasource if true, otherwise use HTTP. Supported values:

                    <ul>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5dbb5686968f15095c8b26aef709ed45">alter\_datasource\_false</a> </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#ad65a7c605d5418a90ecd622b39b08d89">alter\_datasource\_true</a>.
                  </li>

                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5b04e6c0c712a6c522b3fe6aea7fe061">alter\_datasource\_schema\_name</a>: Updates the schema name. If <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5b04e6c0c712a6c522b3fe6aea7fe061">schema\_name</a> doesn't exist, an error will be thrown. If <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a5b04e6c0c712a6c522b3fe6aea7fe061">schema\_name</a> is empty, then the user's default schema will be used. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a936838344693c9f2598f212023284123">alter\_datasource\_schema\_registry\_connection\_retries</a>: Confluent Schema registry connection timeout (in secs). </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a50bdcf0b287a5c6a551edecd5735bd28">alter\_datasource\_schema\_registry\_connection\_timeout</a>: Confluent Schema registry connection timeout (in secs). </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a81c3fe9533b8e35c601890252db60224">alter\_datasource\_schema\_registry\_credential</a>: Confluent Schema Registry <a href="/content/concepts/credentials" target="_top">credential</a> object name. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a30f762cdc2e8299349a90892c2e86b05">alter\_datasource\_schema\_registry\_location</a>: Location of Confluent Schema Registry in '\[storage\_path\[:storage\_port]]' format. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/namespacegpudb#a542c7df8280abc966bbe8c592921591f">alter\_datasource\_schema\_registry\_port</a>: Confluent Schema Registry port (optional). </li>
                </ul>
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              <td className="paramdir">\[in]</td>
              <td className="paramname">options</td>
              <td>Optional parameters. </td>
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              <td className="paramdir">\[out]</td>
              <td className="paramname">response\_</td>
              <td><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1AlterDatasourceResponse">Response</a> object containing the results of the operation.</td>
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        <div className="dt">Returns</div>
        <div className="dd"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cpp/structgpudb_1_1AlterDatasourceResponse">Response</a> object containing the result of the operation (initially passed in by reference). </div>
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