Accessing an external database

Using Portal, I'm trying to create an application referencing a
database that is on another server. How does
one access an instance that is different from the one the
portal30 schema is contained.

David
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Accessing any external database

How can I connect to any external database from portal.

To further dd_Ram's question..here is our dilema. We want start exploring the use of native Oracle Portal Portlets to replace some of the Discoverer reports we have built. We have come across a ton of limitations/bugs/enhancement requests (whatever oracle wants to spin them as) using the Discoverer > Portlet Provider integration. We are evaluating Report Builder Portlet vs. Omni Portlet as an option. The report builder portlet gives us extra functionality and control than the omni portlet does. We have configured the omni portlet to connect to our ERP database by creating a new connection. What we would like to explore, is if the Report Builder Portlet is only connected to the Portal Repository database, or if there was a configuration to possible point it towards another database directly.

Connection to external database

Hi All,
we have an requirement to connect SAP R/3 to external database which is oracle and java tool for data uploading.
One of our team abaper requested us to establish the connection.
When explored , i got some info on DB11 and DBCON table.
I created the connection with the DBM user control and SAP user SAPR3.
Please let me know how to test the connection further and details on connection to external database from BASIS point of view.
Thanks

Hi,
Using transaction SE11, create a table (ZTABLE) with the same fields as the table in the external database, make sure that the type and lengths of the fields are identical.
Using transaction SE11, create a view (ZTABLE_VIEW, projection view) using BASIS table ZTABLE
Using SVRMGRL>
create dblink REMOTE_DB as connect to remote_user identified by password; (database link created)
drop table ZTABLE; (table dropped)
create synonym ZTABLE for ZTABLE@REMOTE_DB; (synonym created)
Using transaction SE16 , type in ZTABLE_VIEW and hit RETURN
Enter value in key fields and hit execute. (displays rows from the remote table)
In other words
To access an external database from ABAP via DBLINK (ORACLE)
Using transaction SE11, create a table (ZTABLE) with the same fields as the table in the external
database, make sure that the type and lengths of the fields are identical.
Using transaction SE11, create a view (ZTABLE_VIEW, projection view) using BASIS table ZTABLE
Using SVRMGRL>
create dblink REMOTE_DB as connect to remote_user identified by password; (database link created)
drop table ZTABLE; (table dropped)
create synonym ZTABLE for ZTABLE@REMOTE_DB; (synonym created)
Using transaction SE16 , type in ZTABLE_VIEW and hit RETURN
Enter value in key fields and hit execute. (displays rows from the remote table)
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Jagadish
Edited by: Alvaro Tejada Galindo on Apr 8, 2008 6:08 PM

How to access tables/views of an external database provider..

After much trouble I finally managed to setup a second Database Provider that doesn't display the "0 out of 0 connections are good" error by filling in the "Configuration Class" field with "intradoc.server.DbProviderConfig".
But now the problem is actually accessing the tables/views in my newly configured external database provider...
In the Configuration Manager applet when I try to add a new Table or View it only lists the tables contained in the schema of the SystemDatabase database provider (the original one), I've tried running Queries via components trying stuff like SELECT * FROM provider_name.table_name and other similar but obviously it doesn't work...
So... with that said, I just want to know how I access tables or views in my "supposedly" well conected (15 out of 15 connections are good, no errors on the Test Query) Oracle external Database Provider - After searching I was unable to find any information regading any post-provider-setup actions in the Content Server documentation - Does anyone know how to do this?
On a side note, if the database is SQLServer instead of Oracle, with the same configuration and apparently no errors on the database side (other clients access it well) the Query Test of the new database provider returns the following error:
"The provider 'TestSqlSrv' is in error. Unable to create database connection for JDBC:ODBC:SqlSrv. Unable to create result set for query 'select * from dummy'. Invalid Fetch Size Unable to create result set for query 'select * from dummy'. Invalid Fetch Size java.sql.SQLException: Invalid Fetch Size".But I won't even go there yet.... for now I would settle with just knowing how to reference information in the Oracle external database provider...
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if you are able to, pick up Bex Huff's book the Definitive Guite to Stellent Content Server Development (amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Stellent-Content-Server-Development/dp/1590596846/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196365101&sr=8-1)
chapter 11 is all about this.

Access external database views on different tablespace

Hi everybody,
I'm trying to access a external Oracle database (dbcon entry is set successfully) and read data from a view wich does not belong to my schema. In other IDEs the statement is simple:
select *
from schema.view
In ABAP the code looks like this:
SELECT *
FROM ('schema.view').
But ABAP splits this literal into two pieces and so I get an error message view does not exist.
Any idea how to correct the FROM part?
For your information. I tried to link the view on the oracle database over a synonym to access the view in the other schema. Normally this works fine, but synonyms will not be publicated to SAP so I can't read the data furthermore.
Thx so far!
Sincerely,
Bastian
Edited by: Bastian Gröbl on Mar 13, 2008 8:56 AM
Edited by: Bastian Gröbl on Mar 13, 2008 9:21 AM

Instead of accessing the views on an different schema I created my own views.

Cross Reference within external Database using XREF API

Hi Experts,
Can we do Cross Reference within external Database using XREF API uses JDBC to access the Oracle Database Stored Procedures in SAP PI? How to use a JNDI Data source to access the DB and how to do the Connection Pooling will be done by the SAP J2EE server? Kindly let me know step by step proceedings.
Regards
Archana

Hello Archana,
It can be done with a Lookup call in a mapping.
Here's a little article about the topic in the SAP wiki:
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/XI/HowtouseCrossReferencewithinexternal+Database
With kind regards
Sebastian

How to connect external database(Ex:SQL Server/Tivoli) from ABAP Webdynpro

Hi,
Any one have idea how to connect external database like SQL Server/Tivoli to access tables from WebDynPro ABAP.
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Praveen

Hi,
Please check out this link -
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Is it possible to connect AIR application to the external database in MySQL technology?

Are you trying to connect to a MySQL database on a web server somewhere? If so, by far the easiest way to do so is to use some sort of application server layer (e.g. PHP, ColdFusion, Java) on the web server, and have the AIR application call the PHP (or whatever) code to get the data. That is the approach that all the links Greg has given you are talking about.
Of course, in order to make that work you need to know enough PHP/Java/ColdFusion to write that middle layer. In the example you're asking about, the information it wants to know is the name of the server that the MySQL database is running on, and the MySQL username and password for the MySQL account that your PHP code is supposed to use. There are tons of resources on the web for writing PHP code that accesses MySQL, so you'll find much more and better information in other places than what you'll find in the Adobe AIR forums.
However, maybe you want to have the MySQL server running directly on the user's computer rather than on a web server somewhere. In that case you would have a few options:
Run a web server and application server (e.g. Apache and PHP) on the user's computer and use those to connect between the AIR application and the MySQL server.
Write Java code to communicate between the MySQL server and the AIR app, and call that code using Merapi (http://merapiproject.net/)
Run the MySQL server on the user's computer and call the server directly from AIR using ActionScript. While there is no built-in support for MySQL in AIR, there is a third-party (open source) library for calling MySQL directly from ActionScript available here: http://code.google.com/p/assql/. I haven't tested it so I have no idea how complete it is, but it's a solution to consider.
However, in all three cases you're depending on some external pieces that have to be installed and loaded separate from your AIR application. (For instance, most users probably don't want a MySQL server running on their computer all the time if they aren't using your AIR app all the time -- so you'd want a way to start and stop the server, which also couldn't be done directly in AIR.) People do write applications that use external resources like this, but it's not the easiest thing to implement.
If you're really wanting to run the database locally, the best solution (assuming it works for your needs) is to use AIR's built in local SQL database engine (based on SQLite). If you've looked at that option already, and found that it doesn't work for you, I'd be interested to know more about what you're trying to accomplish that you can't accomplish with the AIR local database.

ACS external database issue

Hi
I have the following issue, user exists on both the ACS and token server authenication is set to external database with no unknown user policy as the user is known to the ACS! this fails authenication error message is CS user unknown... Now if the unknown user policy is set to the external database the authenication works fine this is on 3.3. I have checked for bugs to no avail.
Any assistance would be good...
Thanks MJ

Hi JG
Many thanks for your response, it is configured this way due the documentation below:
Known Users -Users explicitly added, either manually or automatically, into the CiscoSecureACS database.
These are users added through User Setup in the HTML interface, by the RDBMS Synchronization feature, by the Database Replication feature, or by the CSUtil.exe utility. For more information about CSUtil.exe, see "CSUtil Database Utility".
CiscoSecureACS attempts to authenticate a known user with the single database that the user is associated with. If the user database is the CiscoSecure user database and the user does not represent a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) user account, a password is required for the user. If the user database is an external user database or if the user represents a VoIP user account, CiscoSecureACS does not have to store a user password in the CiscoSecure user database.
This is from the following link....
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/access/acs_soft/csacs4nt/acs32/user/qu.htm
Many thanks MJ

Authenticating Guest Users Using External Database.

Folks, greetings.
Due to the limitations imposed by wlc's database size, we decided to go for an external authentication server.
Since this external database is for guest access, we are considering in using a Linux box with LDAP, along with a web-based application which will be presented to the user for authentication purposes. This way, the user would type in his/her credentials on this portal and the same box would process the authentication.
In such a scenario, we would buid an application for the "Lobby Amabassadors" input the guest data (for auditing purposes we need to enter the user's SSN, passport # or any other official ID), and this application would generate the password to be used during the authentication process.
I've used web-auth before, with the users database loaded on the WLC (local net users). Even using an external web-auth portal, the user is still authenticated by the controller that in turn, will control whether the traffic is to be allowed or not, based on the authentication results.
That's exactly where our question lies: how should we configure the WLAN so that the WLC would receive the access request and forward it to the authentication portal/server? Would it envolve radius?
This same Linux would be the DHCP server for this guest WLAN.
WLC vesion: 4.2.130.0
Regards,
AL

Using the Web Authentication feature on a Cisco wireless LAN controller, we can authenticate a guest user on the wireless LAN controller, on an external web server or on an external database on a RADIUS server. We can configure the wireless LAN used for guest traffic to authenticate the user from an external RADIUS server.
To enable an external RADIUS server to authenticate traffic using the GUI, follow this link.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/technology/guest_access/technical/reference/4.1/GAccess_41.html#wp1001207

Pointing to external Database from apex application

Hi Guys,
Is that possible to point to databse exist in another server through apex application ? is there any configuration like that ?

You would make this kind of connection within a schema/database that your Apex instance already has access to, or a different schema, which you would then make available to Apex. Once you have this setup you can reference the external database/tables just like any other table in Apex. You may be limited to which operations are supported on the external data, depending on whether it's an Oracle dblink or an ODBC connector, etc.
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How to Link to External Database

I can't figure out a good way to keep track of photos within Lightroom that I submit for contests, sales, etc. I could make comments in the caption metadata field, but that would mess up my caption field and is not that flexible. I could color code, but that's very limited. It seems like the ideal way would be to create an external database with something such as Microsoft Access. Using the Filename as the primary field, I would link it to additional fields, date submitted, where sent to, type (contest, stock sale, gift, etc.), price obtained, published date, etc. Then I could see the history of any given image, run queries for all images submitted to a particular place where amount is > $0, etc.
As this is just a hobby and the numbers are small, I could just enter all the data by hand, but if I ever enjoy a lot of commerical success it would be nice if the database integrated with Lightroom. Ideally the queries run would not only show the Filename, but also show photos, perhaps as a Collection in Lightroom. It seems there must be professionals that track such information. Perhaps there is a third party program that does this. I'd appreciate any suggestions.
Dan

I think Access would be better in the event a given photo is used multiple times. Suppose a particular photograph sold at iStockPhoto.com for $1 on 22 occasions, at a local gallery as a 5 x 7" print for $2 on 14 occasions, as an 8 x 10" print for $8 on 9 occasions, and on one's own web page for $3 on 9 occasions, plus published in Pop Photo on 4/17/03. To make custom fields in Lightroom would be onerous, and it couldn't do the math for you. In Access one could use one to many tables (tblPrintSize, tblWebSite, tblSellerType, etc.) to track this fairly easily. The only time consuming part would be entering each sale if one had a lot of them. Of course one could choose to enter quarterly or yearly sales instead if desired.
Queries and reports would show where one's income is derived, what formats sell best, etc. It might help in tax preparation.
This may be more power than professional photographers would ever want. It's probably a fantasy that won't come true that it will ever be an issue for me, but I like to be proactive on data management before it becomes unmanageable.

Cant access My SQL Database on Azure VM from outside source

I have Word Press running on an Azure Virtual Machine. It uses My SQL. I would like to read the My SQL databasre from an ASP.Net application. I have opened the 3306 internal TCP port. I am attempting to read the My SQL database from Navicat on
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Hi,
The Azure SQL Database
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee621781.aspx
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Password Protection of PDF with multiple passwords stored in external database.

Ok, here is what I need to do.
I need to find a way to embed a script into a PDF using LifeCycle Designer so if someone downloads my PDF they won't be able to access it unless they are a registered user in my MSAccess or MySQL database.
Link from PDF to external database to authenticate USER before allowing the PDF to be opened (in case they have downloaded it to their desktop).
Is there a creative way or alternative to accomplish this? Just looking to prevent the average person (not the security savy webmaster).
Thank you.

The Bouncy Castle JCE provider (www.bouncycastle.org) has Base64 encoder/decoder classes that 'just work'.
import org.bouncycastle.util.encoders.Base64;
String base64encodedString = "ABCKD4632adcomd";
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String reencoded = new String(Base64.encode(decoded));As for your second question re: how should you re encrypt the passwords? The standard, quite secure way of doing this is to use a one-way cipher. This will encrypt the password text to an unintelligible mess, that CANNOT be decrypted back to the original.
When a new user enters their password for the first time, you use your cipher to encrypt it, and store this (not the actual password).
To verify this user, you take the password they give you, encrypt it in the same way, and compare the results.
Unix/Linux can use a shell command called 'crypt' to do exactly this... MySQL will also do it for you... INSERT INTO blah VALUES(CRYPT('blahpasswordstring'), and SELECT * FROM blah WHERE password=CRYPT('enteredpassword')).
... and its far too early in the morning, and I cant for the life of me remember the JCE equivalent of this function :(

Rejected: Access Third party database from SAP

Hi,
Below mentioned query was rejected by moderator, I would like to know the specific reason for the same.
Kindly let me know which specific rule applies to reject my below query.
I want to connect third party SQL database access from SAP for read and write data into third party SQL server.
How it is possible?
Regards,
Himanshu Patel.

Eitan Rosenberg wrote:
So why this was not rejected ?
Connect External Database SQL server from ABAP
Regards .
I think you do understand that it's not possible to check each & every thread in the ABAP forums, considering the high volume of activity. So we have to rely on fellow SDNers to report such threads, in that case we can take action.
May be nobody reported it and so it might have escaped the axe, just a guess!
BR,
Suhas

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