Changing a Data Source

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You use the Profiles resource to change the properties of a data source.

You can change the following properties of a data source:

  • Display name
  • Description

If you want to change the programmatic name of the data source, you must delete and then recreate the data source with the new programmatic name.

To change the display name of properties of a data source

To delete a data source

To change the display name of properties of a data source

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  • You can change the display name of a data source; however, you cannot change the programmatic name of a data source.
  1. Expand Commerce Server Manager, expand Global Resources, expand Profiles, expand Profile Catalog, expand Data Sources, right-click the data source you want to change, and then click Properties.
  2. In the <data source> Properties dialog box, on the General tab, do the following:
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    Display Name Edit the name for the data source. The display name can contain a maximum of 127 Unicode characters.
    Description Edit the description for the data source. The description can contain a maximum of 127 Unicode characters.
  3. To save your changes and return to Commerce Server Manager, click OK.

The data source is saved with your changes. You can change the connection string of an existing partition, or add a new partition that is the same type as the data source (LDAP or OLE DB).

To add a new partition or edit an existing partition for an OLE DB-ANSI Provider, see To create a new data source with a SQL Server database partition. To add a new partition or edit an existing partition for an LDAPv3-Compliant Source, see To create a new data source with an LDAPv3-Compliant Source partition.

To delete a data source

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  • You cannot recover a data source after you delete it.
  1. Expand Commerce Server Manager, expand Global Resources, expand Profiles, expand Profile Catalog, expand Data Sources, right-click the data source you want to delete, and then click Delete.
  2. In the Delete Data Source confirmation dialog box, click Yes.

The data source, all of its data objects, and all of its data members are deleted.

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