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# alterDatasink

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                <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkResponse">AlterDatasinkResponse</a> kinetica.Kinetica.alterDatasink </td>
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      <p>Alters the properties of an existing <a href="/content/concepts/data_sinks/" target="_top">data sink</a>. </p>

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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L8538">8538</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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      <p>Alters the properties of an existing <a href="/content/concepts/data_sinks/" target="_top">data sink</a>. </p>

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              <td>Name of the data sink to be altered. Must be an existing data sink.</td>
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                Map containing the properties of the data sink to be updated. Error if empty.

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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a50dc4c564c89ed8a5c33386c104452c0">DESTINATION</a>: Destination for the output data in format 'destination\_type://path\[:port]'. Supported destination types are 'azure', 'gcs', 'hdfs', 'http', 'https', 'jdbc', 'kafka', and 's3'. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a0a6c70f5425c1a2a03f1fc4daa7e1aa0">CONNECTION\_TIMEOUT</a>: Timeout in seconds for connecting to this sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a380efc2596c40789e534f673059f0b55">WAIT\_TIMEOUT</a>: Timeout in seconds for waiting for a response from this sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a78ede247d9ffcde0ac9c7a907b258cb5">CREDENTIAL</a>: Name of the <a href="/content/concepts/credentials/" target="_top">credential</a> object to be used in this data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a98d2ba917f0d512baafea78365fa74d2">S3\_BUCKET\_NAME</a>: Name of the Amazon S3 bucket to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a331462e2f9a763e40943630f92c2b4a0">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ac184fd011cb767ef107caf04fa5dba2a">S3\_VERIFY\_SSL</a>: Whether to verify SSL connections. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a>: Connect with SSL verification. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a>: Connect without verifying the SSL connection; for testing purposes, bypassing TLS errors, self-signed certificates, etc. </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a>.
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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a667b9f41f379afc02be1106c6a83a587">S3\_USE\_VIRTUAL\_ADDRESSING</a>: Whether to use virtual addressing when referencing the Amazon S3 sink. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a>: Use path-style URI for requests. </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ad439f3f0d0d7454ffd6af0eaa74c5e58">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a95eb1877dbda34c58051e739e2470c7e">S3\_ENCRYPTION\_CUSTOMER\_ALGORITHM</a>: Customer encryption algorithm used encrypting data. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a365d83a65c09492552a6a7552bc68608">S3\_ENCRYPTION\_CUSTOMER\_KEY</a>: Customer encryption key to encrypt or decrypt data. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a356bc53c1583b06bc00af6e6abbf6e38">S3\_ENCRYPTION\_TYPE</a>: Server side encryption type. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a1172529111daf9334221253a92cf7156">S3\_KMS\_KEY\_ID</a>: KMS key. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a4000947a3e31e9269caa59bcb1d1643f">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#acaaba5534f1661b72ce317cca1e9ad80">HDFS\_DELEGATION\_TOKEN</a>: Delegation token for the given HDFS user. </li>

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a58a7b1c799d17e300bc8ddb5072e299b">AZURE\_STORAGE\_ACCOUNT\_NAME</a>: Name of the Azure storage account to use as the data sink, this is valid only if tenant\_id is specified. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#acc1149f27bdff9faf5bc17824ae5d266">AZURE\_CONTAINER\_NAME</a>: Name of the Azure storage container to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a1dc3d380188aea7657a8ad28e3a1bd36">AZURE\_TENANT\_ID</a>: Active Directory tenant ID (or directory ID). </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#aab584dd86fc033620af432e635dab19b">AZURE\_SAS\_TOKEN</a>: Shared access signature token for Azure storage account to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a91c9b430fde782e8ae94ee1b25933624">AZURE\_OAUTH\_TOKEN</a>: OAuth token to access given storage container. </li>

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab0120248acf1f0b87240edf67191dfbc">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a>: Use path-style URI for requests. </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a3cd3f641e1c74b8e0bf4a83a923bd7f3">GCS\_BUCKET\_NAME</a>: Name of the Google Cloud Storage bucket to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ae6b1038816000e27b5c9df324b6f00ba">GCS\_PROJECT\_ID</a>: Name of the Google Cloud project to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a1e2c6b1d0827a6d6af593736017fbb61">GCS\_SERVICE\_ACCOUNT\_KEYS</a>: Google Cloud service account keys to use for authenticating the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ac65378984391d79c445dbf5646348176">JDBC\_DRIVER\_JAR\_PATH</a>: JDBC driver jar file location. This may be a KIFS file. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#aad04e50f504f7121ffc513e37ac879de">JDBC\_DRIVER\_CLASS\_NAME</a>: Name of the JDBC driver class. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a68d0a4469242d7cd48d3b72ac499daa5">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ac76dec3f51b5c6db516436913b80f7b3">KAFKA\_TOPIC\_NAME</a>: Name of the Kafka topic to use for this data sink, if it references a Kafka broker. </li>

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a3a2f04007d96f2f3bfd2321c2860d889">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a>.
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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a>.
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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a0f9026cf5b10a35a4c039b4a9a3da14d">USE\_HTTPS</a>: Use HTTPS to connect to datasink if true, otherwise use HTTP. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#aa194a86e6355a79ff8ed308f292373be">MAX\_BATCH\_SIZE</a>: Maximum number of records per notification message. The default value is '1'. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#af12bd616de27d1b0e2d7c1ad5896ef0d">MAX\_MESSAGE\_SIZE</a>: Maximum size in bytes of each notification message. The default value is '1000000'. </li>

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab4029a8be8ed2ebff5b0c2c149211cfe">FLAT</a>: A single record is returned per message. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a509d5f7c8ea293acb7c45520f684c43c">NESTED</a>: <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/namespacekinetica_1_1Records">Records</a> are returned as an array per message. </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab4029a8be8ed2ebff5b0c2c149211cfe">FLAT</a>.
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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a>.
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L9005">9005</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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      <p>Alters the properties of an existing <a href="/content/concepts/data_sinks/" target="_top">data sink</a>. </p>
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L8555">8555</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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  <h2 className="memtitle"><span className="permalink"><a href="#aba993e12f3d3d6d7ce293771f5da0671">◆ </a></span>AlterDatasinkAsync() <span className="overload">\[2/2]</span></h2>

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                <td className="memname">async System.Threading.Tasks.Task\< <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkResponse">AlterDatasinkResponse</a> > kinetica.Kinetica.AlterDatasinkAsync </td>
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      <p>Alters the properties of an existing <a href="/content/concepts/data_sinks/" target="_top">data sink</a>. </p>
      <p>(async)</p>

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              <td className="paramname">name</td>
              <td>Name of the data sink to be altered. Must be an existing data sink.</td>
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              <td className="paramname">datasink\_updates\_map</td>

              <td>
                Map containing the properties of the data sink to be updated. Error if empty.

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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a50dc4c564c89ed8a5c33386c104452c0">DESTINATION</a>: Destination for the output data in format 'destination\_type://path\[:port]'. Supported destination types are 'azure', 'gcs', 'hdfs', 'http', 'https', 'jdbc', 'kafka', and 's3'. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a0a6c70f5425c1a2a03f1fc4daa7e1aa0">CONNECTION\_TIMEOUT</a>: Timeout in seconds for connecting to this sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a380efc2596c40789e534f673059f0b55">WAIT\_TIMEOUT</a>: Timeout in seconds for waiting for a response from this sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a78ede247d9ffcde0ac9c7a907b258cb5">CREDENTIAL</a>: Name of the <a href="/content/concepts/credentials/" target="_top">credential</a> object to be used in this data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a98d2ba917f0d512baafea78365fa74d2">S3\_BUCKET\_NAME</a>: Name of the Amazon S3 bucket to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a331462e2f9a763e40943630f92c2b4a0">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ac184fd011cb767ef107caf04fa5dba2a">S3\_VERIFY\_SSL</a>: Whether to verify SSL connections. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a>: Connect with SSL verification. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a>.
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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a667b9f41f379afc02be1106c6a83a587">S3\_USE\_VIRTUAL\_ADDRESSING</a>: Whether to use virtual addressing when referencing the Amazon S3 sink. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a>: Use path-style URI for requests. </li>
                    </ul>

                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ad439f3f0d0d7454ffd6af0eaa74c5e58">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a95eb1877dbda34c58051e739e2470c7e">S3\_ENCRYPTION\_CUSTOMER\_ALGORITHM</a>: Customer encryption algorithm used encrypting data. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a365d83a65c09492552a6a7552bc68608">S3\_ENCRYPTION\_CUSTOMER\_KEY</a>: Customer encryption key to encrypt or decrypt data. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a356bc53c1583b06bc00af6e6abbf6e38">S3\_ENCRYPTION\_TYPE</a>: Server side encryption type. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a1172529111daf9334221253a92cf7156">S3\_KMS\_KEY\_ID</a>: KMS key. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a4000947a3e31e9269caa59bcb1d1643f">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#acaaba5534f1661b72ce317cca1e9ad80">HDFS\_DELEGATION\_TOKEN</a>: Delegation token for the given HDFS user. </li>

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a5e178d0b726888e2952a23fd1d082fb3">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a58a7b1c799d17e300bc8ddb5072e299b">AZURE\_STORAGE\_ACCOUNT\_NAME</a>: Name of the Azure storage account to use as the data sink, this is valid only if tenant\_id is specified. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#acc1149f27bdff9faf5bc17824ae5d266">AZURE\_CONTAINER\_NAME</a>: Name of the Azure storage container to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a1dc3d380188aea7657a8ad28e3a1bd36">AZURE\_TENANT\_ID</a>: Active Directory tenant ID (or directory ID). </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#aab584dd86fc033620af432e635dab19b">AZURE\_SAS\_TOKEN</a>: Shared access signature token for Azure storage account to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a91c9b430fde782e8ae94ee1b25933624">AZURE\_OAUTH\_TOKEN</a>: OAuth token to access given storage container. </li>

                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab0120248acf1f0b87240edf67191dfbc">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a>: Use path-style URI for requests. </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a3cd3f641e1c74b8e0bf4a83a923bd7f3">GCS\_BUCKET\_NAME</a>: Name of the Google Cloud Storage bucket to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ae6b1038816000e27b5c9df324b6f00ba">GCS\_PROJECT\_ID</a>: Name of the Google Cloud project to use as the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a1e2c6b1d0827a6d6af593736017fbb61">GCS\_SERVICE\_ACCOUNT\_KEYS</a>: Google Cloud service account keys to use for authenticating the data sink. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ac65378984391d79c445dbf5646348176">JDBC\_DRIVER\_JAR\_PATH</a>: JDBC driver jar file location. This may be a KIFS file. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#aad04e50f504f7121ffc513e37ac879de">JDBC\_DRIVER\_CLASS\_NAME</a>: Name of the JDBC driver class. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a68d0a4469242d7cd48d3b72ac499daa5">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ac76dec3f51b5c6db516436913b80f7b3">KAFKA\_TOPIC\_NAME</a>: Name of the Kafka topic to use for this data sink, if it references a Kafka broker. </li>

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a3a2f04007d96f2f3bfd2321c2860d889">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/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a>.
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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a>.
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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a0f9026cf5b10a35a4c039b4a9a3da14d">USE\_HTTPS</a>: Use HTTPS to connect to datasink if true, otherwise use HTTP. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#aa194a86e6355a79ff8ed308f292373be">MAX\_BATCH\_SIZE</a>: Maximum number of records per notification message. The default value is '1'. </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#af12bd616de27d1b0e2d7c1ad5896ef0d">MAX\_MESSAGE\_SIZE</a>: Maximum size in bytes of each notification message. The default value is '1000000'. </li>

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a3a403597288b38a5b0c1ea99cb1caa56">JSON\_FORMAT</a>: The desired format of JSON encoded notifications message. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab4029a8be8ed2ebff5b0c2c149211cfe">FLAT</a>: A single record is returned per message. </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a509d5f7c8ea293acb7c45520f684c43c">NESTED</a>: <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/namespacekinetica_1_1Records">Records</a> are returned as an array per message. </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab4029a8be8ed2ebff5b0c2c149211cfe">FLAT</a>.
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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#abf5982905b9bcbf41207b1b91691efe3">SKIP\_VALIDATION</a>: Bypass validation of connection to this data sink. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#ab6fbba1048a6e47082a53daf6498be2d">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a8da6c9b181b875a1bcbd46e10ddc057b">FALSE</a>.
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a0769523410bec4fb1dba0a87111434bc">SCHEMA\_NAME</a>: Updates the schema name. If <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a0769523410bec4fb1dba0a87111434bc">SCHEMA\_NAME</a> doesn't exist, an error will be thrown. If <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1AlterDatasinkRequest_1_1DatasinkUpdatesMap#a0769523410bec4fb1dba0a87111434bc">SCHEMA\_NAME</a> is empty, then the user's default schema will be used. </li>
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        <div className="dd">Task that returns the response object containing the result of the operation.</div>
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      <p className="definition">Definition at line <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs#L9457">9457</a> of file <a className="el" href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-cs/blob/master/Kinetica/KineticaFunctions.cs">KineticaFunctions.cs</a>.</p>
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