Creating a New Data Source in the Profiles Resource

You use the Profiles resource to add new data sources for storing profile data. You use profile data source partitions to map profile data to your data stores. Data stores can be OLE DB databases or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) sources.

You use a data source to map profile definitions to a database or LDAP source. You can partition the data source to map profile definitions to multiple data stores. You must create a database or an LDAP source before you can create a data source. The Profiles resource does not modify the underlying data store. You must make any schema changes directly to the database or to the LDAP store.

The following information is important to remember when you create a data source:

• You must create at least one partition when you create a new data source.
• All of the partitions in a single data source must be of the same type (OLE DB databases or LDAP sources).
• All of the data storage devices (OLE DB databases or LDAP sources) that are mapped to a single data source must have identical schemas.
• Commerce Server data sources support a maximum of 128 total partitions.
• You cannot delete partitions from a data source. If you need to delete partitions from a data source, you must delete the data source and create a new one without the partitions.
• You must identify one partition in a data source as the default partition.

This section contains:

• OLE DB Drivers Not Supported by Profiles Resource
• Creating a New Data Source with a SQL Server Database Partition
• Creating a New Data Source with an LDAPv3-Compliant Source Partition

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