The following table describes the basic connection properties for database authentication:

Property	Description
Username	User name with permissions to access the Greenplum database.
Password	Password to connect to the Greenplum database.

The following table describes the advanced connection properties for Database authentication:

Property	Description
Certificates Path	Path where the SSL certificates for the Greenplum server are stored. Specify the path if you want to establish secure communication between the gpload utility and the Greenplum server over SSL. For information about the files that need to be available in the certificates path, see the gpload documentation. You can use the SSL-based connection only in a Target transformation in a mapping to write to Greenplum.
Metadata Additional Connection Configuration	Additional connection properties that you want to set to fetch the metadata from Greenplum. Enter the properties in the following format: <parameter name1>=<value1>, <parameter name2>=<value2>
Driver Name	The driver name. Specify DataDirect 7.1 Greenplum Wire Protocol.