Export Database connection to Oracle Developer - oracle

I have a database Connection established in odbcad and Microsoft Access (aswell as working in Excel) via ODBC and want to also get it working in Oracle SQL developer.
It is a Windows SQL Server as far as i know and I have tried several Settings, of which None works. I have also installed Driver for ODBC. I would like to Import Settings into SQL developer as applied in MS Access, is there any possibility?

No, SQL Developer is a Java application and uses a JDBC driver.
But if you look at the odbc properties for your connection, those should largely translate to what you need to define a basic connection.
Oracle:
Server name or IP address of the DB, port # for the listener, and the name of the SID or Service, plus a valid username and password is all you need to connect to Oracle.
What error do you get when you try to connect?
Show us what you're trying.
Update:
You're trying to connect to SQL Server but you're getting"
Native SSPI library not loaded
You're trying to use OS Authentication for your connection. For this to work with the jTDS driver, you need to copy a DLL file named ntlmauth.dll (which is for NT authentication) under the jtds-x.x.x-dist\x86\SSO\ or jtds-x.x.x-dist\x64\SSO\, to any directories in the PATH environment.
Please update your question such that's it's clear you're connecting to SQL Server and share the error message so others can find it.
I imagine this question is a duplicate of many previous iterations of the same challenge.

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Discover oracle connection data (Host, SID/Service, Port) from an ODBC connection

I'm not an Oracle guy, but I find that I need to touch on some oracle resources to respond to a new report request. I'm working at an office where the connection to an oracle server uses LDAP and I can't get to the connection info. I do have an ODBC connection on my machine, so I can get into the database through MS Access. But I'd like to be able to connect with SQL Developer so I can do more useful profiling on the tables.
Is there any way to use my ODBC connection through Access to tease out Hostname, Port, and SID/Service name so I can connect through SQL Developer?
It seems I do not have permissions to the UTL_INADDR functions.
Since you have an ODBC connection defined already, you can open the ODBC Data Source Administrator on your computer (Goto the start menu and type ODBC in to search for it).
In the ODBC Data Source Administrator select the data source for the database in question (it may be on the User, System or File DSN tab) and click the Configure button.
From the Configuration screen you will be able to see the TNS Service Name for the connection.
The TNS Service Name should be all you'll need to supply to SQL Developer when creating the connection. Aside from your account credentials of course.
You can query SID and Hostname like this:
select instance_name, host_name from v$instance;
Afaik there is no way to query the port name from the database, see also this article on Ask TOM on this subject:
You cannot get the port -- the port is not necessarily known to the
database. The listener need not be running on the same machine with
the database, a single listener might be servicing many databases. A
database may have many listeners servicing it.

Connect from SSIS to Oracle using ODBC with Kerberos

We have a large SSIS solution with many connection managers pointing to Oracle. Provider is ODBC, data sources are set to defined system DSNs. So far we use user names and passwords and everything works fine. Now we want to switch to Kerberos authentication.
I can already successfully query the Oracle database using sqlplus with Windows authentication.
I'm having hard time achieving the same from SSIS using ODBC connection managers.
Is it possible to reconfigure the ODBC connection managers so they will use Windows authentication? How should be the connection manager configured?
The question is specifically about ODBC, please avoid answers like "use Attunity".
We use MS SQL Server 2016 Enterprise edition, Oracle 12.2.
I finally made it working, hope it helps someone.
I created a new DSN
as User ID I put [OracleUserName]
beware the square brackets! Those are necessary
the OracleUserName is user name configured on Oracle side (I do not know much about Oracle). The DBA configured the AD account to be able to login as this user.

Accessing DB2 with SQL Developer via ODBC (not JDBC)

Due to company constraints, I cannot read my DB2 tables using the Oracle SQL Developer.
I could do it via JDBC, but I don’t have enough information to configure the connection (e.g. the port is missing).
I found in my local Windows ODBC list a system DNS ( IBM DB2 ODBC DRIVER – DEFAULT_DB2) that I can use with Microsoft Access.
I mean, tables are accessible via MS Access through an ODBC DNS.
I’d like to do the same with SQL Developer too. Is it possible?
May I use my local ODBC system DNS in SQL Developer or something like this?
I see that ODBC connections are possible with SQL Server, MySql, Sybase and other databases but I cannot find anything about DB2.
Additionally, if it helps, I can see my DB2 server via QMF (already registered by the company software distribution) but I don’t think this is useful for me.

How to connect sql developer to Oracle database using instant client_12_1

I have downloaded the oracle instant client 12_1 but i'm unable to connect to the oracle database.when i tried using sql developer it is displaying the following error.
The Network could not be established.
I'm using windows 7 and my Oracle_home path is defautly set in the system variables as
path
E:\app\dell\product\11.2.0\dbhome\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
I suspect you've begun the headache of messing with the connection string. I seriously recommend you find the option in SQL Developer that will allow you to connect directly to the server (bypass TNSNAMES) and use EZ Connect. The connection string will look like this:
server.whatevz.com:port/sidname
I don't use SQL Developer, so I can't point to it specifically, but I have used it and configured it as such, and it works fine. I'm a fan of PL/SQL Developer (All Around Automation) myself.

How to sniff Oracle's credentials from a connection attempt to the database?

I have a legacy application, which connects to the configured Oracle database.
It seems it has some logic that alters the database credentials as it is unable to successfully log in to the Oracle database, while sqlplus started on the same machine is able to log in.
The error I am getting is: [DataDirect][ODBC Oracle Wire Protocol driver][Oracle]ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
How to find out what is the database username and password that are sent to the database?
What I have tried so far:
Enabled auditing of failed sign-on attempts on Oracle (audit create session whenever not successful). It does not solve the issue, because it only logs the username, which seems to be correct, without the password.
Used a sniffer to eavesdrop the network traffic between the machine running the application and the database, but since Oracle's TNS protocol is encrypted, it did not help a lot.
Started a server using netcat on port X, provided port X in the application configuration file. The application did connect to my server, that is how I know the application is connecting to the correct server. But since the TNS protocol is pretty complex (requires a series of messages to be exchanged between the client and the server) I hope there is a simpler why of achiving what I want without having to reverse engineer Oracle and implementing my own server.
Enabled tracing of the JDBC driver (Trace=1, TraceFile, TraceDll). The trace file shows the correct username, but obviously the password is not getting logged.
My environment:
Database: Oracle 11g
Application runs on: Solaris
Application uses: DataDirect ODBC Oracle Wire Protocol v70
I not sure, but if connection established by ODBC driver (as described in question tags) then you can try ODBC sniffing tools like ODBC Tracing.
Citation:
Password "Sniffing" Using Trace
ODBC provides a means for tracing the conversation taking place between the driver and the host database. Used by developers for testing purposes, the tracing feature is designed to help programmers find out exactly what is going on and to help fix problems. However, tracing (also called "sniffing") can be used by nefarious bad guys to retrieve user passwords.
When tracing is enabled, communications with the host are written to a file. This includes the user ID and password, which are captured in plain text.
Update
SQLPlus connects to Oracle with OCI interface, but DataDirect ODBC driver uses it's own proprietary implementation of communication protocol. So, most probable point of failure is driver misconfiguration or incompatibility.
DataDirect provides some tools for ODBC drivers diagnostics, but only option applicable to case described in question is using snoop utility, which acts like a netcat which already tried.
Because connection failed at credential verification stage, the most probable source of error is using localized symbols for user name or password. There are some issues with Oracle authentication process, listed in DataDirect Knowledge Search (search for ORA-01017).
It seems that DataDirect provides two separate version of driver with and without Unicode support, therefore one of possible points of failure is to connecting with non-Unicode version of driver to Unicode version of database and vice verse.
P.S. For now I don't have any experience with DataDirect ODBC driver. So it's only suggestions about possible source of failure.

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