Oracle connection

To access your data in Oracle, create a connection asset for it.

Oracle is a multi-model database management system.

Supported versions

• Oracle 12c R1 (12.1)+
• Oracle 11g R1 (11.1)+
• Oracle 10g R1 (10.1)+
• Oracle 9i R1 (9.0.1)+
• Oracle 8i R3 (8.1.7)+

Create a connection to Oracle

To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:

• Service name or Database (SID)
• Hostname or IP address
• Port number
• Username and password
• SSL certificate (if required by the database server)

For Credentials and Certificates, you can use secrets if a vault is configured for the platform and the service supports vaults. For information, see Using secrets from vaults in connections.

Choose the method for creating a connection based on where you are in the platform

In a project Click Add to project > Connection. See Adding a connection to a project.

In a catalog Click Add to catalog > Connection. See Adding a connection asset to a catalog.

In a deployment space Click Add to space > Connection. See Adding connections to a deployment space.

In the Platform assets catalog Click New connection. See Adding platform connections.

Next step: Add data assets from the connection

• See Add data from a connection in a project.
• See Add data from a connection in a catalog.

Where you can use this connection

You can use Oracle connections in the following workspaces and tools:

Analytics projects

• Data Refinery (Watson Studio or Watson Knowledge Catalog)
• DataStage (DataStage service). The Oracle (optimized) connection for DataStage gives you increased performance and more features such as before and after SQL statements, sparse lookup, and rejects links. However, you cannot use the "(optimized)" connection with other tools.
• Metadata import (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
• Notebooks (Watson Studio). Use the insert-to-code function to get the connection credentials and load the data into a data structure. See Load data from data source connections.
• SPSS Modeler (SPSS Modeler service)

Catalogs

• Platform assets catalog
• Other catalogs (Watson Knowledge Catalog)

Data Virtualization service You can connect to this data source from Data Virtualization.

Oracle setup

Oracle installation

Running SQL statements

To ensure that your SQL statements run correctly, refer to the Oracle product documentation for the correct syntax.

Learn more

Oracle product documentation

Parent topic: Supported connections