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# createCredential

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                <td className="memname"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialResponse">CreateCredentialResponse</a> kinetica.Kinetica.createCredential </td>
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                <td className="paramtype"><a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/classkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest">CreateCredentialRequest</a></td>
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      <p>Create a new <a href="/content/concepts/credentials/" target="_top">credential</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#L17881">17881</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_1CreateCredentialResponse">CreateCredentialResponse</a> kinetica.Kinetica.createCredential </td>
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      <p>Create a new <a href="/content/concepts/credentials/" target="_top">credential</a>. </p>

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              <td>Name of the credential to be created. Must contain only letters, digits, and underscores, and cannot begin with a digit. Must not match an existing credential name.</td>
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              <td className="paramname">type</td>

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                Type of the credential to be created. Supported values:

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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#afc0dc024e4b12232822238b48ab1467d">AWS\_ACCESS\_KEY</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a226ca52823e5aea133d7974098d2c646">AWS\_IAM\_ROLE</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#ab03b3b0d65b16b21ad983aba2217ccd5">AZURE\_AD</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a22c2130135ef15bfc29df36b31c936d3">AZURE\_OAUTH</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a49d0444ddc5af7e753e15ab28dadbae2">AZURE\_SAS</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#af18da18d3f04b0bcb9f07da65675cf1f">AZURE\_STORAGE\_KEY</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a9c45ba681a8599b5030b07c1799f4045">CONFLUENT</a> </li>
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a17b013287aa709e16c62e3ea9134edb2">GCS\_SERVICE\_ACCOUNT\_ID</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a56510eddf31efc89a28982f0d6b1015e">GCS\_SERVICE\_ACCOUNT\_KEYS</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#ab3cb7cfa243120265f65710cdc8c9b18">HDFS</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a275ae8dcb1359705009d45ccaccbeb80">JDBC</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a3bb55d9df24cc68837666dcd98c75dd2">KAFKA</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#aa47ff09d908dcbf3fb9f6218b62864ad">NVIDIA\_API\_KEY</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a84f03658108036bcb04d019a89f8bd1c">OPENAI\_API\_KEY</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a5e64c9995120ff1cce51561a88bc4b40">REST</a> </li>
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              <td className="paramname">identity</td>
              <td>User of the credential to be created.</td>
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              <td>Password of the credential to be created.</td>
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              <td>Optional parameters. The default value is an empty Dictionary.</td>
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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#L17996">17996</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>Create a new <a href="/content/concepts/credentials/" target="_top">credential</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#L17897">17897</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>Name of the credential to be created. Must contain only letters, digits, and underscores, and cannot begin with a digit. Must not match an existing credential name.</td>
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                Type of the credential to be created. Supported values:

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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#afc0dc024e4b12232822238b48ab1467d">AWS\_ACCESS\_KEY</a> </li>
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                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a17b013287aa709e16c62e3ea9134edb2">GCS\_SERVICE\_ACCOUNT\_ID</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a56510eddf31efc89a28982f0d6b1015e">GCS\_SERVICE\_ACCOUNT\_KEYS</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#ab3cb7cfa243120265f65710cdc8c9b18">HDFS</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a275ae8dcb1359705009d45ccaccbeb80">JDBC</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a3bb55d9df24cc68837666dcd98c75dd2">KAFKA</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#aa47ff09d908dcbf3fb9f6218b62864ad">NVIDIA\_API\_KEY</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a84f03658108036bcb04d019a89f8bd1c">OPENAI\_API\_KEY</a> </li>
                  <li> <a className="el" href="/content/api/cs/structkinetica_1_1CreateCredentialRequest_1_1Type#a5e64c9995120ff1cce51561a88bc4b40">REST</a> </li>
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              <td>User of the credential to be created.</td>
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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#L18099">18099</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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