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You can create connections to one or more from .

Supported Versions: 12.1.0.2

Supported Environments:

Operation		Amazon	Microsoft Azure
Read	Supported	Supported	Not supported
Write	Supported	Supported	Supported

Prerequisites

NOTE: Dots (.) in the names of Oracle tables or table columns are not supported.

If you haven't done so already, you must create and deploy an encryption key file for the to be shared by all relational connections. For more information, see Create Encryption Key File.

SSL

If you are connecting to the using SSL, additional configuration is required in .

supports the use of the following SSL ciphers to communicate with :

SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5
SSL_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA
SSL_DH_anon_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
SSL_DH_anon_WITH_RC4_128_MD5
SSL_DH_anon_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA
SSL_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5
SSL_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_DES40_CBC_SHA

For more information, please see the documentation that is provided with your Oracle distribution.

Configure

To create this connection:

In the Import Data page, click the Plus sign. Then, select the Relational tab. Click the card.
You can also create connections through the Connections page. See Connections Page.

For additional details on creating an connection, see Relational Access.

Modify the following properties as needed:

Property Description

Host

Enter your hostname. Example:

testsql.database.windows.net

Port Set this value to 1521.

Connect String options

Please insert any connection options as a string here. See below.

Enable SSL

Select the option if the connection should use SSL.

NOTE: Additional configuration may be required in the database server. For more information, please consult the documentation that was provided with the distribution.

NOTE: Additional configuration is required. See Configure Data Service.

Service Name Enter the name of the Oracle service.

User Name (basic credential type only) Username to use to connect to the database.

Password (basic credential type only) Password associated with the above username.

Test Connection After you have defined the connection credentials type, credentials, and connection string, you can validate those credentials.

Connection Name Display name of the connection

Connection Description Description of the connection, which appears in the application.

Connection URL

The properties that you provide are inserted into the following URL, which connects to the connection:

<host>:<port>/<service_name>

Connect string options

The connect string options are optional. If non-standard connections are required, supports using tsnames format.

When the connect string options field is used:

The connect string options parameters are prepended with jdbc:oracle:thin:@.
The following fields are ignored from the form. These values must be specified as part of the tsnames :
- Host
- Port
- Service
- SSL

After you specify the connect string options, the generated connection URL is automatically prepended with the following protocol information. Do not add this to the connection URL or connect string options:

jdbc:oracle:thin:@

Examples are below.

Use SID:

If you are using a service identifier, instead of a service name, please specify your connection string options as follows:

(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=oracle.rds.example.com)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=orcl)))

Use TCPS:

If TCPS protocol is required, you can specify your connection string options as follows:

(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcps)(HOST=oracle.rds.example.com)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=orcl)))

For more information, please see the documentation for the driver.

Driver Information

This connection uses the following driver:

Driver name: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
Driver version: com.oracle.database.jdbc:ojdbc8:19.9.0.0
Driver documentation: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/index.html

Create via API

This connection can also be created using the API.

Type: jdbc
Vendor: oracle

For more information, see

#operation/createConnection

Troubleshooting

For more information on common error messages, see https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/java.112/e16548/apxermsg.htm#JJDBC28962.

"Could not create dataset - Lexical error"

When you attempt to create a dataset with SQL from an Oracle database, you may receive an ORA error similar to the above. These queries may work in other database tools.

Solution:

The solution is to apply aliasing impacted columns in your SQL query. For more information, see Supported SQL Syntax.

Use

SQL Syntax

The following syntax requirements apply to this connection.

Object delimiter: double-quote

Example syntax:

Double quotes required around database and table names and not required around column names.

SELECT "column1","column2" FROM "databaseName"."tableName";

For more information on SQL in general, see Supported SQL Syntax.

Data Conversion

For more information on how values are converted during input and output with this database, see Oracle Data Type Conversions.