Kafka Connect Deep Dive – JDBC Source Connector | Confluent

This post provides a deep dive into setting up and troubleshooting the JDBC Source Connector for Kafka Connect, focusing on self-managed scenarios. It covers essential configuration aspects such as JDBC driver installation and availability, specifying tables for ingestion, incremental ingest strategies (including query-based ingest), managing multiple connectors, and common troubleshooting scenarios like 'No suitable driver found' and 'Why is there no data?'. It also details how to reset the connector's read point, set Kafka message keys, change topic names, and handle various data types like Bytes, Decimals, and Numerics.