How to import your MS Active Directory users in an Oracle table

Question

Hello,
I first tried to get a Heterogenous Connection to my MS Active Directory to get information on my Active Directory users.
This doesn't work so I used an alternative solution:
How to import your MS Active Directory users in an Oracle table
- a Visual Basic script for export from Active Directory
- a table in my database
- a SQL*Loader Control-file
- a command-file to start the SQL*Loader
Now I can schedule the vsb-script and the command-file to get my information in an Oracle table. This works fine for me.
Just to share my scripts:
I made a Visual Basic script to make an export from my Active Directory to a CSV-file.
'Export_ActiveDir_users.vbs                              26-10-2006
'Script to export info from MS Active Directory to a CSV-file
'     Accountname, employeeid, Name, Function, Department etc.
'       Richard de Boer - Wetterskip Fryslan, the Nethterlands
'     samaccountname          Logon Name / Account     
'     employeeid          Employee ID
'     name               name     
'     displayname          Display Name / Full Name     
'     sn               Last Name     
'     description          Description / Function
'     department          Department / Organisation     
'     physicaldeliveryofficename Office Location     Wetterskip Fryslan
'     streetaddress          Street Address          Harlingerstraatweg 113
'     l               City / Location          Leeuwarden
'     mail               E-mail adress     
'     wwwhomepage          Web Page Address
'     distinguishedName     Full unique name with cn, ou's, dc's
'Global variables
    Dim oContainer
    Dim OutPutFile
    Dim FileSystem
'Initialize global variables
    Set FileSystem = WScript.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    Set OutPutFile = FileSystem.CreateTextFile("ActiveDir_users.csv", True)
    Set oContainer=GetObject("LDAP://OU=WFgebruikers,DC=Wetterskip,DC=Fryslan,DC=Local")
'Enumerate Container
    EnumerateUsers oContainer
'Clean up
    OutPutFile.Close
    Set FileSystem = Nothing
    Set oContainer = Nothing
    WScript.Echo "Finished"
    WScript.Quit(0)
Sub EnumerateUsers(oCont)
    Dim oUser
    For Each oUser In oCont
        Select Case LCase(oUser.Class)
               Case "user"
                    If Not IsEmpty(oUser.distinguishedName) Then
                        OutPutFile.WriteLine _
               oUser.samaccountname      & ";" & _
               oUser.employeeid     & ";" & _
               oUser.Get ("name")      & ";" & _
               oUser.displayname      & ";" & _
               oUser.sn           & ";" & _
               oUser.description      & ";" & _
               oUser.department      & ";" & _
               oUser.physicaldeliveryofficename & ";" & _
               oUser.streetaddress      & ";" & _
               oUser.l           & ";" & _
               oUser.mail           & ";" & _
               oUser.wwwhomepage      & ";" & _
               oUser.distinguishedName     & ";"
                    End If
               Case "organizationalunit", "container"
                    EnumerateUsers oUser
        End Select
    Next
End SubThis give's output like this:
rdeboer;2988;Richard de Boer;Richard de Boer;de Boer;Database Administrator;Informatie- en Communicatie Technologie;;Harlingerstraatweg 113;Leeuwarden;[email protected];;CN=Richard de Boer,OU=Informatie- en Communicatie Technologie,OU=Afdelingen,OU=WFGebruikers,DC=wetterskip,DC=fryslan,DC=local;
tbronkhorst;201;Tjitske Bronkhorst;Tjitske Bronkhorst;Bronkhorst;Configuratiebeheerder;Informatie- en Communicatie Technologie;;Harlingerstraatweg 113;Leeuwarden;[email protected];;CN=Tjitske Bronkhorst,OU=Informatie- en Communicatie Technologie,OU=Afdelingen,OU=WFGebruikers,DC=wetterskip,DC=fryslan,DC=local;I made a table in my Oracle database:
CREATE TABLE     PG4WF.ACTD_USERS     
     samaccountname          VARCHAR2(64)
,     employeeid          VARCHAR2(16)
,     name               VARCHAR2(64)
,     displayname          VARCHAR2(64)
,     sn               VARCHAR2(64)
,     description          VARCHAR2(100)
,     department          VARCHAR2(64)
,     physicaldeliveryofficename     VARCHAR2(64)
,     streetaddress          VARCHAR2(128)
,     l               VARCHAR2(64)
,     mail               VARCHAR2(100)
,     wwwhomepage          VARCHAR2(128)
,     distinguishedName     VARCHAR2(256)
)I made SQL*Loader Control-file:
LOAD DATA
INFILE           'ActiveDir_users.csv'
BADFILE      'ActiveDir_users.bad'
DISCARDFILE      'ActiveDir_users.dsc'
TRUNCATE
INTO TABLE PG4WF.ACTD_USERS
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';'
(     samaccountname
,     employeeid
,     name
,     displayname
,     sn
,     description
,     department
,     physicaldeliveryofficename
,     streetaddress
,     l
,     mail
,     wwwhomepage
,     distinguishedName
)I made a cmd-file to start SQL*Loader
: Import the Active Directory users in Oracle by SQL*Loader
D:\Oracle\ora92\bin\sqlldr userid=pg4wf/<password>@<database> control=sqlldr_ActiveDir_users.ctl log=sqlldr_ActiveDir_users.logI used this for a good list of active directory fields:
http://www.kouti.com/tables/userattributes.htm
Greetings,
Richard de Boer

Answer 1

I have a table with about 50,000 records in my Oracle database and there is a date column which shows the date that each record get inserted to the table, for example 04-Aug-13.
Is there any way that I can find out what time each record has been inserted?
For example: 04-Aug-13 4:20:00 PM. (For my existing records not future ones)
First you need to clarify what you mean by 'the date that each record get inserted'.  A row is not permanent and visible to other sessions until it has been COMMITTED and that commit may happen seconds, minutes, hours or even days AFTER a user actually creates the row and puts a date in your 'date column'.
Second - your date column, and ALL date columns, includes a time component. So just query your date column for the time.
The only way that time value will be incorrect is if you did something silly like TRUNC(myDate) when you inserted the value. That would use a time component of 00:00:00 and destroy the actual time.