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Connection Option Descriptions : Access Token
  

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Access Token

Attribute

AccessToken (AT)

Purpose

Specifies the access token required to authenticate to a Google BigQuery instance when OAuth 2.0 is enabled (AuthenticationMethod=oauth2).
The access token acts as a session ID for the connection. See "Generating access token and refresh token" to know how to obtain an access token.

Valid Values

string
where:
string
is the access token you have obtained to authenticate to Google BigQuery.

Notes

*If a value for the Access Token option is not specified, the driver uses the value of the Refresh Token option to make a connection.
*If both Access Token and Refresh Token values are not specified, the driver cannot make a successful connection.
*If both AccessToken and RefreshToken values are specified, the driver uses the AccessToken value. However, if the AccessToken value expires, it uses the RefreshToken value to generate a new AccessToken value.

Default

None

GUI Tab

General tab

See also

Configuring OAuth 2.0 authentication
Generating access tokens and refresh tokens
Authentication Method
Refresh Token