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# createCatalog

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                <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogResponse">CreateCatalogResponse</a> kinetica.Kinetica.createCatalog </td>
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      <p>Creates a catalog, which contains the location and connection information for a deltalake catalog that is external to the database. </p>

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        <div className="dd">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#L17633">17633</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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                <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogResponse">CreateCatalogResponse</a> kinetica.Kinetica.createCatalog </td>
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                <td className="paramname"><span className="paramname"><span className="em">type</span></span>, </td>
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                <td className="paramname"><span className="paramname"><span className="em">options</span></span><span className="paramdefsep"> = </span><span className="paramdefval">null</span> )</td>
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      <p>Creates a catalog, which contains the location and connection information for a deltalake catalog that is external to the database. </p>

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              <td className="paramname">name</td>
              <td>Name of the catalog to be created.</td>
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              <td className="paramname">table\_format</td>
              <td>Table format (iceberg, hudi, deltalake). </td>
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              <td className="paramname">location</td>
              <td>Location of the catalog in 'http\[s]://\[server\[:port]]]' format.</td>
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              <td>Type of the catalog (REST (unity, polaris, tabular), nessie, hive, glue).</td>
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              <td>Name of the <a href="/content/concepts/credentials" target="_top">credential</a> object to be used in catalog.</td>
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              <td className="paramname">datasource</td>
              <td>Password for the remote system user; may be an empty string.</td>
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                Optional parameters.

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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#a8f688ae6c205654c3d8a167bb9f665c7">ACCESS\_DELEGATION</a>: Use access delegation for object store. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#a3fcd12ae657b1a40a8eac1facf226f27">DATASOURCE\_CREDENTIALS</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#a463a4dda76dc3a74f9d3f960ae27e280">VENDED\_CREDENTIALS</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#a3fcd12ae657b1a40a8eac1facf226f27">DATASOURCE\_CREDENTIALS</a>.
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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#a4835155c3b699a43aab576a88e61fe98">SKIP\_VALIDATION</a>: Bypass validation of connection to remote source. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#a255cdb09fafe11f890009136e3e02513">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#ad257b1bafbc88bd20be5c688bc687007">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#ad257b1bafbc88bd20be5c688bc687007">FALSE</a>.
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                The default value is an empty Dictionary.
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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#L17724">17724</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>Creates a catalog, which contains the location and connection information for a deltalake catalog that is external to the database. </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#L17650">17650</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>Creates a catalog, which contains the location and connection information for a deltalake catalog that is external to the database. </p>
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              <td className="paramname">name</td>
              <td>Name of the catalog to be created.</td>
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              <td className="paramname">table\_format</td>
              <td>Table format (iceberg, hudi, deltalake). </td>
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              <td>Location of the catalog in 'http\[s]://\[server\[:port]]]' format.</td>
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              <td>Type of the catalog (REST (unity, polaris, tabular), nessie, hive, glue).</td>
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              <td>Name of the <a href="/content/concepts/credentials" target="_top">credential</a> object to be used in catalog.</td>
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              <td>Password for the remote system user; may be an empty string.</td>
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                Optional parameters.

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                  <li>
                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#a8f688ae6c205654c3d8a167bb9f665c7">ACCESS\_DELEGATION</a>: Use access delegation for object store. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#a3fcd12ae657b1a40a8eac1facf226f27">DATASOURCE\_CREDENTIALS</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#a463a4dda76dc3a74f9d3f960ae27e280">VENDED\_CREDENTIALS</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#a3fcd12ae657b1a40a8eac1facf226f27">DATASOURCE\_CREDENTIALS</a>.
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                    <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#a4835155c3b699a43aab576a88e61fe98">SKIP\_VALIDATION</a>: Bypass validation of connection to remote source. Supported values:

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                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#a255cdb09fafe11f890009136e3e02513">TRUE</a> </li>
                      <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#ad257b1bafbc88bd20be5c688bc687007">FALSE</a> </li>
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                    The default value is <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCatalogRequest_1_1Options#ad257b1bafbc88bd20be5c688bc687007">FALSE</a>.
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                The default value is an empty Dictionary.
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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#L17805">17805</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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