I'm working on programmatic queries relying on the Oracle provider for OLE DB (in VB script).
I can successfully query my database using the standard syntax: Provider=OraOLEDB.Oracle;Data Source=MyOracleDB;User Id=myUsername;Password=myPassword;
But how can I make it work without disclosing the password?
I have Oracle Wallet running on my server. How could I integrate it with my script?
Any other idea?
OS authentication won't work here.
Thank you very much in advance for your suggestions.
Best,
Alexis
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I have only used db links to get access to remote db so far. Now I have to find a way to use JDBC to connect to remote db and get data. Can someone guide me what all things would I need to ask the remote db admin in order to setup a jdbc connection, and once I have the connection, how do I query the database using java stored procedure, just like I am querying it over remote db right now with db link?
You've described a fairly complicated problem, but haven't given any information about your database or operating system. Are you connecting to a SQL Server database? MySQL? Are you running on Linux? Windows?
First, you'll need a driver. That's going to depend on the database, operating system and versions thereof that you're using. For example, here is the Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server (Oops, looks like it's currently unavailable.)
Second, you need to set up Oracle Heterogenous Services. That's fairly complicated and not something I can answer here. You might start with the Database Gateway for ODBC User's Guide.
Oracle does have gateways for various other databases, but they're licensed additionally from the database itself.
I have installed SAS Enterprise Guide 9.3 and SAS JDBC Drivers 9.3 and have some test SAS data sets that I need to load into Oracle. We have licenses for
ODBC SAS/ACCESS ODBC
PCFILE SAS/ACCESS PC File Formats
CONNECT SAS/CONNECT
WKSPSRVLOCAL SAS Workspace Server for Local Access
I am using Windows 7. I am not sure about next steps
Can I read SAS Datasets having just installed SAS EG?
Which JAR files are required
How will the connect string look like and what will be the port, username & password.
Appreciate any help I can get.
Thanks
Not an expert in this. If you can do this, you will need to connect through the local Workspace server. I've only connected through a server Workspace server to get a JDBC connection.
How I've done it in the past. Always possible this is not the best method.
Step 1. Connect to SAS workspace. http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/itechjcdg/61499/HTML/default/viewer.htm#connfact_direct.htm
Step 2. Use the DataService on the Workspace to get a JDBC connection to the current SAS session. http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/itechjcdg/61499/HTML/default/viewer.htm#jdbcconn.htm
Alternative: Connect through ODBC to Oracle in SAS and use SAS to write the tables into your Oracle DB. See the SAS/ACCESS documentation. http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/access/index.html
Hope this helps!
I am trying to submit XQuery queries to an Oracle 11g database through their XQJ API.
When I instantiate an oracle.xquery.xqj.OXQDataSource as explained in http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/oem/xquery-jdbc-325944.html, I can submit queries fine except that I haven't found how I can set up the server connection (server name, port, username, password, ...) info:
This datasource claims that it doesn't support setting any property.
It doesn't implement the data source constructor which takes a JDBC connection.
I don't see any non standard method to set such info.
When I try to access some random collection like collection("oradb:/foo") I just get an empty result set even when no server is running, suggesting that the driver doesn't even try to connect.
What have I missed and how can I set the server connection info?
Thanks,
Eric
Thanks to Charles Foster I can answer to my own question: the XQJ implementation from Oracle is an old standalone version from January 2010 that is pretty useless and doesn't interact with Oracle databases.
Despite all the Oracle statements about XQJ, I haven't been able to find any client/server XQJ implementation (except one from DataDirect of course) and the way to submit XQuery queries to Oracle databases appears to be through JDBC, embedded in PL-SQL statements.
It is possible in 12.
XQJ to run queries in Java:
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/ADXDK/adx_j_xqj.htm#ADXDK99930
XQJ to run queries against the database:
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/ADXDK/adx_j_xqjxdb.htm#ADXDK136
We have a requirement to make our products work on Oracle as well as SQL Server (around which they were originally built). Unfortunately we don't have any in house Oracle development experience to speak of but as a senior dev it has fallen to me to lead the project. So far I have managed to make our app connect to an Oracle database (I'm using Oracle XE 11.2) by using the following connection string:
Data Source=(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=VS010-ORA11GR1)(PORT=1523))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=DEVORA)));User Id=dbo;Password=dbo;
The reason we decided to use this type of connection string is because we do not want to rely on changing tnsnames.ora on every client machine. However, as you can see this specifies an Oracle user and associated password. We also need to provide the ability to use the equivalent of SQL Server integrated security.
According to the literature I have read, to do this I simply need to specify / as the user id and then omit the password portion (as this is ignored anyway for Windows authentication). I also created the user in Oracle, making sure it matched the Windows user, with the following snippets:
CREATE USER "OPS$<DOMAIN>\<user>" IDENTIFIED EXTERNALLY;
GRANT CONNECT,RESOURCE TO "OPS$<DOMAIN>\<user>";
I also checked that the sqlnet.ora file on my local machine which hosts the XE instance and my dev environment contained the line:
SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NTS)
I understood that this would enable my app to connect to the Oracle database uing Windows Authentication. However what actually happens is that I get the following Oracle error message:
ORA-01005: null password given; logon denied
this doesn't make much sense because of course its null - it's supposed to be, according to the tutorials I've read.
The app targets .Net Framework 3.5, we are using the System.Data.OracleProvider and the actual connecting and so on is handled by Enterprise Library 5. Incidentally, I am aware of the deprecation of the OracleClient component but I just want this to work before I go into the extra complexities of changing providers.
Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? Have I chosen the wrong type of connection string? I apologise for any basic mistakes but I have always managed to avoid Oracle until now so my knowledge of it is close to zero.
Many thanks
I had the same problem and solved after adding this to conn. string:
Integrated Security=yes
To expand on the answer above by #Stikut. I tested this out with NHibernate 3.3.3.GA and it works.
user id=/;password=;Integrated Security=yes
What are the steps to connect to Oracle 9i with VB6? How can I use modules and stored procedures in VB6 and how can I call an SP?
What is the method to use ADO which is helpful to insert, update, search and delete the items from the front end?
You will need ADO to connect to Oracle (add reference to microsoft activex data objects library).
You need to know where is the Oracle Instance hosted alongwith username and password?
The connection string for Oracle can be found from www.connectionstrings.com
ADODB.Connection is the one that you will need to establish the connection.
Connection has Execute method - which you can use for any insert/update/delete statements.
Now, read some documentation on ADO object library from MSDN.
And, write the code by yourself.
You can choose between the Oracle OLEDB driver (which I think comes with the Oracle client install mentioned by YogoZuno) or one from Microsoft (can't remember if it was just a standard microsoft oledb driver or one released with a nod towards oracle): in any case, the Oracle OLEDB driver is far better.
You will also need to have the Oracle client installed on your PC, along with an appropriate TNS Names file. Also, be aware that there are some minor functional differences between various versions of the Oracle 9 client - I had some issues under v9.2.0.1, that did not occur under v9.2.0.7.