I'm trying to extend an existing Apex app: connection to another database is required. Would it be possible?
Or at least start Apex on one database and connect to another.
This is for Oracle 12c and Apex 5.2
Database link is the best option if you want to access directly to the other database using queries, but if you want to get the information in JSON from one or two tables you can use ORDS to public a web service.
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I am using Odoo 10 version. I lost database connectivity from my application. While trying to select database using database selector (ipaddress:portno/web/database/selector) no databases are displaying.
Then I tried to create a new database.Then, only newly created database is showing. Then I entered directly to the backend and checked whether the databases are there or not. In backend(postgresql) databases are there. How can I connect to existing databases from odoo application?
Odoo shows the list database that belong to the user that you are using to connect to postgresql. So just change the owner of the database to be your user.
I've been trying for days but cannot find the answer to this. I am using Oracle Application Express (APEX), someone else setup the initial connection to a "Apex" database in oracle, but I am trying to connect to our production database in oracle. I am making web forms and the web forms are connected to the "Apex" database that was setup already, but I need to connect to our production database so we can create reports from the data entered through the web forms. I need the tables to show up in the create page option from the production database, currently its coming from the apex database, please help.
Create Page View with Tables (from apex)
Thank You so much in Advance!
What is the "production database"? Is it really a different database (than the one you're currently connected to), or is it a user in the same database?
if former:
you could create a database link between those two databases and create synonyms for production users' tables in one of schemas your workspace is assigned to.
another option is to install Apex onto the production database, so that you could use current installation as "development" and then deploy the application into the "production-based" Apex
if latter, you might do the same (i.e. create synonyms, just without the database link), or simply assign the production schema to your workspace
You may be interested to read Mike's response to a question with a similar misunderstanding regarding architecture.
https://community.oracle.com/thread/4135843
Once you have your head wrapped around this, you can consider the parsing schema to your application. This schema defines the table access your application has, in the normal way Oracle handles table privileges.
Then it's up to you to define who has access to what pages, using APEX Authorisation Schemes.
I have got a workspace in apex.oracle.com , Now , I want to connect to that database through JDBC from ubuntu-14.04 machine. please explain the steps , From where should I download the drivers and what should be the arguments in
DriverManager.getConnection();
step by step please. Thank you
You will not be able to connect to the database that's supporting the APEX instance on apex.oracle.com. If you are hosting your own instance, it's no different than connecting to any other Oracle database.A quick code snippet can be found here: http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Database-SQL-JDBC/TestOracleJDBCDriverInstallation.htm. You will need a password for the user/schema that you wish to connect to. If you don't have one, then talk to your DBA.
BTW, please remember that no production-type application and data should be used on the public APEX instance.
Maybe your problem is (or was) that you cannot connect via JDBC using the users you administered in your APEX workspace.
It seems to me that APEX users are not regular users for DB connections via JDBC. If my assumption is right, then you need to create database user with sufficient privileges to access the workspace tables.
My work uses Oracle 10G and is planning on installing Apex. In the meantime, I have downloaded Oracle XE and have taught myself APEX on it; however, I can only access users/tablespaces that I have made in the XE database. What I would like to do is use the XE's Apex to access the users/tablespaces in the production databases of my work.
My colleague says that this should be possible because my workstation is connected to the server, and that there should be a way to configure access from my XE's Apex to the 10g's databases, such as by setting up an appropriate DAD.
I see nothing in the Apex user interface to allow this. I've read every word of the Apex documentation but nothing registered.
XE uses the embedded PL/SQL gateway, as opposed to 10/11G which uses either an Apex Listener or an HTTP Server with the mod_plsql plugin.
Thank you,
Matthew Moisen
I have done this before where we didn't have access to the actual database hosting the data to be worked with save for the standard port 1521 listener access. Apex at the time was new enough to the organization that the DBA's also had a voodoo taboo on using their database server as a webserver gateway as well. You can use your database instance with APEX installed as a "middle tier" or app server with the following steps:
Set up an account on your 10g database that is accessible remotely via dblink.
Set up dblinks to your 10g database table on your workstation with XE installed, use the account and connection information for the 10g database as set up in (1). Note, you may have to update a TNS names file or explicitly indicate your host/networking settings within the dblink itself.
For simple sanity and simplicity in coding your apex projects, set up synonyms for all your dblinked objects (i.e., table1 for table1#dblink) so you're not referencing the dblinks directly in your apex code. Making changes later will be easier if you adhere to this.
That's it. One proviso is that you need to know that LOBs will not work with the out-of-the-box functionality of APEX driven DML operations while using dblinks. This may have changed with the newest version. One workaround you may consider is trying to use a stored procedure which passes your LOB data as a input parameter which will do your DML operation for you.
Otherwise, this approach works nicely. The place where I implemented this model has several production level apps, a test and a development tier all using servers hosting APEX separately from the actual data sources. We used Oracle Standard Edition One (for the support), but Oracle XE should work as well since APEX is the platform in common between either Oracle version.
working on an Drupal architecture where I'd like to have a stand alone Drupal/DrupalCommerce installation with product definition based on content coming from an apart Oracle DB.
Does anybody have experience in integration between Drupal and ORacle.
I'm not speaking about replacing MySQL by ORacle but by using ORacle content in specific modules.
What is the best connections options : XML-RPC, REST, WebServices/SOAP ...
Did you try to define the Oracle database as a secondary database in the Drupal settings file?
http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.oci8.php
http://drupal.org/project/oracle
If you manage to connect, you could then write a custom module to switch to the secondary database, retrieve the data from the Oracle database and bring it into the Drupal context.
I would like to find out if you found other solutions.