OWB 10g data sources

Newbie question:
Can OWB 10g use a Oracle 9i DB source that exists on another machine?. I'm assuming it would use dblinks.

Yes, I've created a new Oracle Module ( and related Link ) to my Oracle 8i database, of course you have to configure tnsnames.ora properly.
Andrea

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SQL SSRS 2008 DateTime Calendar Control and Oracle 10g Data Source

Hello. I am creating reports in SSRS 2008 using the calendar control for a date range. Let's say we select a start date of 3/3/2012. This parameter is sent into my SQL statement in the WHERE clause which is executed against an Oracle 10g database. All syntax has to be in SQL that Oracle understands, so no CONVERT or CAST.
The format of the date is throwing an error "ORA-01843: not a valid month" when I try to use the following:
SELECT *
FROM TABLE
WHERE STARTDATE >= TO_DATE('3/03/2012', 'MM/DD/YYYY')
I get ORA-01722: invalid number when I try the following:
SELECT *
FROM TABLE
WHERE STARTDATE >= >= TO_CHAR('3/03/2012', 'MM/DD/YYYY')
I cannot find a way to format the date parameter in SQL Server SSRS before it gets to the SQL to be executed in Oracle.
Please help.
Thanks,
Sunny

920616 wrote:
sb92075: I am showing you how Oracle renders the date if I do a simple select from the table from which I am trying to pull data. You are right, it sure doesn't prove anything other than how the date looks right out of the Oracle database, but hopefully, it will give a clue as to how I need my SSRS date parameter to work.
Hans Forbrich:
I get ORA-01722: invalid number when I try the following:
SELECT *
FROM TABLE
WHERE STARTDATE >= TO_CHAR('3/03/2012', 'MM/DD/YYYY')
Solomon:
It works. The problem is getting the parameter '3/3/2012' into a usable format for Oracle.
Let's assume an application is sending in '3/3/2012' which will be used in an Oracle query (no PL/SQL allowed, nor can I create functions, stored procedures, etc - only straight up SQL). How can I prepare the parameter to successfully do the compare on the Oracle Date field?
12:50:23 SQL> select TO_CHAR('03/03/2012', 'MM/DD/YYYY') from dual;
select TO_CHAR('03/03/2012', 'MM/DD/YYYY') from dual
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01722: invalid number
12:51:00 SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1* select TO_DATE('03/03/2012', 'MM/DD/YYYY') from dual
12:51:20 SQL> /
TO_DATE('03/03/2012
2012-03-03 00:00:00

OWB 10g -- Can't Create Database Links for Data Source and Target

We installed OWB 10g server components on a Unix box running Oracle 10g (R2) database. The Designer Repository is in one instance. The Runtime Repository and the Target are in another instance. The OWB client component was installed on Windows XP. We create a data source module and a target module in OWB. The data source is on another Unix box running Oracle 9i (R2) database. We try to create database links for data source module and target module, respective. But when we created and tested the DB links, the DB links were failed.
For the database link of data source, we got the following error message:
Testing...
Failed.
SQL Exception
Repository Error:SQL Exception..
Class Name: CacheMediator.
Method Name: getDDEntryFromDB.
Repository Error Message: ORA-12170: TNS:Connect timeout occurred
For the database link of target , we got the following error message:
Testing...
Failed.
API2215: Cannot create database link. Please contact Oracle Support with the stack trace and the details on how to reproduce it.
Repository Error:SQL Exception..
Class Name: oracle.wh.ui.integrator.common.RepositoryUtils.
Method Name: createDBLink(String, String, String, String).
Method Name: -1.
Repository Error Message: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended.
However, we could connect to the two databases (data source and target) using the OWBs utility SQL Plus.
Please help us to solve this problem. Thank you.

As I said prior the database link creation should work from within the OWB client (also in 10).
Regarding your issue when deploying, have you registered your target locations in the deployment manager and did you first deployed your target location's connector which points out to your source?
I myself had some problems with database link creations in the past and I can't remember exactly what they were but it had something to do with
- the use of abnormal characters in the database link name
- long domain name used in as names.default_domain in my sqlnet.ora file
What you can do is check the actual script created when deploying the database link so see if there's something strange and check if executing the created script manually works or not.

Cannot get ODBC data source to talk to Oracle 10g for Windows

Problem description
I recently installed Oracle 10g on my laptop computer, which is running Windows 7. Everything went smoothly except for one crucial item: The ODBC data source I added keeps returning this error when I click the "Test Connection" button:
Testing Connection
Unable to connect
[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Driver's SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_ENV failed.
I was using the following ODBC driver
Oracle in OraDb10g_home1 (TNS Service Name = ORCL and User ID = scott)
This type of error happened, in one form or another for the three other Oracle drivers I have on my machine
Microsoft ODBC for Oracle
WinSQL Oracle
WinSQL Oracle Wire Protocol
These services are currently running (status = Started)
OractDBConsoleorcl
OracleMTSRecoveryService
OracleOraDb10g_home1iSQL*Plus
OracleOraDb10g_home1TNSListener
OracleServiceORCL
(NOTE: I entered the foregoing information by hand, since I was not able to copy-and-paste it. So be aware that there is a small possibility of a minor typo in case you plan to cut-and-paste it.)
If requested, I can provide the contents of these files
tnsnames.ora
sqlnet.ora
listener.ora
Other installations on the same computer
ODAC (ADO data provider for Oracle)
SQL Server 2009 Express
.NET 4
Visual Studio 2010
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

OK, I went ahead and upgraded to Windows 7 Professional and I STILL get the same error messages when trying to get the Oracle ODBC driver to talk to Oracle 10g. Here are some screen shots that show what happened:
1) Select ODBC driver: http://yfrog.com/f3driverselectionp
2) Configure driver: http://yfrog.com/ccoracleodbcfororaclep
3) Test connection: http://yfrog.com/1goracleodbcfororacletestp
I also get the following error when I try to run SQL*Plus from the line command, even with no parameters:
C:\Users\Bruce>sqlplus
SP2-1503: Unable to initialize Oracle call interface
SP2-0152: ORACLE may not be functioning properly
Any suggestions as to how I might to go about diagnosing (and fixing) this problem?
Thanks,
Bruce

How can I delete an ODBC data source after 10g client has been uninstalled?

I uninstalled the 10g client and now when I attempt to delete the ODBC data source, I get an error: "The setup routines for the Oracle in Oraclient10g_home2 ODBC driver could not be found. Please reinstall the driver. I re-installed the client and I get the same error, but I had to specify a new home. I still get the error. Anyone have an answer or a workaround to deleting the ODBC entry so that I can re-create with the same name later under the 9i client?

I have the same problem... and nobody gots the point:
1st. the ODBC and the client/home exists on the machine...
2nd. the client/home is unistalled and so...
3rd. tada! Now we have a impossible-to-unistall ODBC entry!
That is happening on a Windows, at last to me...
Please, help us if someone knows how to remove this ODBC entry... if know how to DO the stuff (permissions, system, all that things is answered above).
Best regards,
Bruno Araujo

Error while creating data source using Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g

Hi,
I have deployed my web application developed on OC4J 9.0.4 stand alone (Win2K) to an integrated OC4J version(Solaris) using Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g.
However, I get an error when I try to create a data source.
The data source I want to create would have the following parameters (as seen in data-sources.xml on the stand alone version):
     <data-source
          class="com.evermind.sql.DriverManagerDataSource"
          name="TestDS"
          location="jdbc/OracleCoreDS"
          xa-location="jdbc/xa/OracleXADS"
          ejb-location="jdbc/TestDS"
          connection-driver="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"
          url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@hostName:1521:test"
          username="user"
          password="password"
          min-connections="5"
          max-connections="20"
          inactivity-timeout="30"
     />
When I entered the above data on the Enterprise Manager Data Sources page, I got the following error:
quote:
Error saving Data Source Properties. - Entity et="system";ei="0",et="application";ei="48",et="data-sources";ei="167":child:data-sourcechild key:location:jdbc/OracleCoreDS; class:com.evermind.sql.DriverManagerDataSource; already exists in the repository. Resolution: Please check the code base.
unquote:
Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong ?
I tried to manually edit the data-sources.xml file but the data source didn't show up on the Enterprise Manager.
I'm using a new OC4J instance (on the Solaris machine) for my applications. Is the data source error related to this?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Shyam

Thanks for your reply , Steve.
I noticed that there is a default datasouce on the EM with the following parameters:
<data-source
          class="com.evermind.sql.DriverManagerDataSource"
          name="OracleDS"
          location="jdbc/OracleCoreDS"
          xa-location="jdbc/xa/OracleXADS"
          ejb-location="jdbc/OracleDS"
          connection-driver="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"
          username="scott"
          password="->pwForScott"
          url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:oracle"
          inactivity-timeout="30"
     />
The location and xa-location attributes that I use for my "test" data source are the same as the default one. So, could this be the issue?
What should be the values for location and xa-location attributes from my "test" data source?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Shyam

10g Reports issue with XML Data Source

Hi,
Has anybody ever encountered an issue with Oracle 10g report using an XML as the data source? What happens is, some of the values in the XML are printed to the wrong column.
One of the elements in our XML file is a complex type with 10 elements under it. The first 5 are picked up properly, but the last 6 are not. Elements #6 to #9 has a minimum occurence of 0. What happens is when element #6 is present, but #7 is, the value for element #7 is passed on to element #6.
The XSD and XSL files are both valid since the reports were working when we were still using 9i. There is no hidden logic in the report which might cause this issue to come up, i.e., the report just picks up the values from the XML and prints it to the appropriate columns.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

XSD used
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified">
        
        <xs:element name="TradeDetail">
                <xs:complexType>
                        <xs:sequence>
                                <xs:element ref="TradeType"/>
                                <xs:element ref="TradeID"/>
                                <xs:element ref="TradeDate"/>
                                <xs:element ref="FundID"/>
                                <xs:element ref="FundName"/>
                                <xs:element ref="DollarValue" minOccurs="0"/>
                                <xs:element ref="UnitValue" minOccurs="0"/>
                                <xs:element ref="PercentageValue" minOccurs="0"/>
                                <xs:element ref="OriginalTradeID" minOccurs="0"/>
                                <xs:element ref="CancellationFlag"/>
                        </xs:sequence>
                </xs:complexType>
        </xs:element>
        <xs:element name="Instruction">
                <xs:complexType>
                        <xs:sequence minOccurs="0">
                                <xs:element ref="TradeDetail" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
                        </xs:sequence>
                </xs:complexType>
        </xs:element>
        
        <xs:element name="InterchangeHeader">
                <xs:complexType>
                        <xs:sequence>
                                <xs:element ref="Instruction"/>
                        </xs:sequence>
                </xs:complexType>
        </xs:element>
        
        <xs:element name="FundID" type="xs:string"/>
        <xs:element name="TradeType" type="xs:string"/>
        <xs:element name="TradeID" type="xs:string"/>
        <xs:element name="TradeDate" type="xs:string"/>
        <xs:element name="FundName" type="xs:string"/>
        <xs:element name="DollarValue" type="xs:decimal"/>
        <xs:element name="UnitValue" type="xs:decimal"/>
        <xs:element name="PercentageValue" type="xs:decimal"/>
        <xs:element name="OriginalTradeID" type="xs:string"/>
        <xs:element name="CancellationFlag" type="xs:string"/>
</xs:schema>
XML used
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
<InterchangeHeader xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="TradeInstruction.xsd">
   <Instruction>
      <TradeDetail>
         <TradeType>Purchase</TradeType>
         <TradeID>M000038290</TradeID>
         <TradeDate>20061201</TradeDate>
         <FundID>ARO0011AU</FundID>
         <FundName>ABN Fund</FundName>
         <DollarValue>2111.53</DollarValue>
         <CancellationFlag>N</CancellationFlag>
      </TradeDetail>
      <TradeDetail>
         <TradeType>Redemption</TradeType>
         <TradeID>M000038292</TradeID>
         <TradeDate>20061201</TradeDate>
         <FundID>ARO0011AU</FundID>
         <FundName>AMRO Equity Fund</FundName>
         <UnitValue>104881.270200</UnitValue>
         <CancellationFlag>N</CancellationFlag>
      </TradeDetail>
      <TradeDetail>
         <TradeType>ISPurchase</TradeType>
         <TradeID>M000038312</TradeID>
         <TradeDate>20061201</TradeDate>
         <FundID>MLC0011AU</FundID>
         <FundName>Cash Fund</FundName>
         <OriginalTradeID>M000038311</OriginalTradeID>
         <CancellationFlag>N</CancellationFlag>
      </TradeDetail>
   </Instruction>
</InterchangeHeader>
XSLT used
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
        <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
        <xsl:template match="/">
                <InterchangeHeader>
                        <xsl:for-each select="InterchangeHeader/Instruction/TradeDetail">
                        <xsl:sort select="FundName"/>
                        <xsl:sort select="TradeDate"/>
                                <TradeDetail>
                                        <TradeType><xsl:value-of select="TradeType"/></TradeType>
                                        <TradeID><xsl:value-of select="TradeID"/></TradeID>
                                        <TradeDate><xsl:value-of select="TradeDate"/></TradeDate>
                                        <FundID><xsl:value-of select="FundID"/></FundID>
                                        <FundName><xsl:value-of select="FundName"/></FundName>
                                        <DollarValue><xsl:value-of select="DollarValue"/></DollarValue>
                                        <UnitValue><xsl:value-of select="UnitValue"/></UnitValue>
                                        <PercentageValue><xsl:value-of select="PercentageValue"/></PercentageValue>
                                        <OriginalTradeID><xsl:value-of select="OriginalTradeID"/></OriginalTradeID>
                                        <CancellationFlag><xsl:value-of select="CancellationFlag"/></CancellationFlag>
                                </TradeDetail>
                        </xsl:for-each>
                </InterchangeHeader>
        </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

How to change database schema of data source in OWB?

Hi,
Could someone give me hint about my questions:
I select many database schema in TOAD. like "My Shema" and "All Schema".
If I create a Oracle Data Source in OWB 10.2. All tables/viewsI can see only from "My Schema" (I think it is default), However, I need to connect "All Scema". There are lots of prod tables/views. I don't know how to set/change/config in OWB even reading guide.
Thanks a lot
Lan

Lan,
You can ONE of the following:
1. Dbl click the src/target module and go to metadata location tab and select a location that has the details pointing to the different schema (If you do not have this location created, you may have to create one).
2. Create synonyms in "My Schema" to objects from other schema. Then try to import the tables again. This time you will be able to see the other tables (the icon will be different for synonyms.)
Hope That Helps.
Kaushik.

Using MySQL data source in OWB

Hi All,
I need to use a MySQL data source in OWB. Could you please tell me the steps needed to define and configure the MySQL module in OWB?
Thanks and Regards,
Amit

Directly in the source component, or in the expressions property of the data flow?
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MCSE SQL Server 2012 - Please mark posts as answered where appropriate.

Data source from Oracle 10g problem

Dear Sir,
We met a problem when we moved on Oracle 10g from Oracle 9i in the loading process. The scenario is that SQL Server as Data Warehouse, SSIS as ETL tool. But the length of string column as data source table in SSIS grows up 4 times when using Oracle 10g. For example, ABC table x varchar2(8) --> x varchar(32) -->x varchar(8) --> x varchar(8) {Oracle 10g SSIS(source) }
This doesn’t influence the loaded result (I did not find any problem until now), but that influence loading performance and we worry about potential problems.
Do you have any idea or have you met the same problem before? Is I need setup some parameters like "code page"
Thanks,
Jacob

You could try General Database Discussions the main db foum.
What are you using to migrate your database? Why is it being mapped from varchar2(8) to varchar2(32). It sounds like someone/something is intervening here.
Barry

OWB 10g - The time taken for data load is too high

I am loading data on the test datawarehouse server. The time taken for loading data is very high. The size of data is around 7 GB (size of flat files on the OS).
The time it takes to load the same amount of data on the production server from the staging area to the presentation area(datawarehouse) is close to 8 hours maximum.
But, in the test environment the time taken to execute one mapping (containing 300,000 records)is itself 8 hours.
The version of Oracle database on both the test and production servers is the same i.e., Oracle 9i.
The configuration of the production server is : 4 Pentium III processors (2.7 GHz each), 2 GB RAM, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, 8 kilobyte primary memory cache, 512 kilobyte secondary memory cache, 440.05 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity, 73.06 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
The configuration of the test server is : 4 Pentium III processors (2.4 GHz each), 1 GB RAM, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, 8 kilobyte primary memory cache,
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache, 144.96 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity, 5.22 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space.
Can you guys please help me to detect the the possible causes of such erratic behaviour of the OWB 10g Tool.
Thanks & Best Regards,
Harshad Borgaonkar
PwC

Hello Harshad,
2 GB of RAM doesn't seem to be very much to me. I guess your bottleneck is I/O. You've got to investigate this (keep an eye on long running processes). You didn't say very much about your target database design. Do you have a lot of indexes on the target tables and if so have you tried to drop them before loading? Do your OWB mappings require a lot of lookups (then apropriate indexes on the lookup table are very useful)? Do you use external tables? Are you talking about loading dimension or fact tables or both? You've got to supply some more information so that we can help you better.
Regards,
Jörg

How to register 10g ODBC driver list in the Create New Data Source window

Hi
I've checked the dll for the odbc is in the correct home path. However, i don't see the list of the driver when i try to create a new data source. Is there a way besides reinstall the client again.
Thanks
Rgds
Ung

Hi Joe,
According to your description, after you run C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe, Access driver is not displayed when you expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>ODBC>ODBCINST.INI node.
The issue is caused by wrong path of odbccad32, please make sure that you are using Administrator account or you have administrative privileges, then refer to the following steps:
Go to Control Panel.
Click Administrative Tools.
Right-click Data Sources(ODBC) to open Properties dialog box.
In Target text box, type %windir%\syswow64\odbcad32.exe
In Start in text box, type %windir%\syswow64, then click OK to save the settings.
If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Wendy Fu

OBIEE 10g/11g RPD as a Data Source - Driver Name for metadata imports

Hi,
I'm trying to use OBIEE's RPD as a relational source in Informatica 9.5.1 PowerCenter Designer. I have the ODBC connection to the OBIEE's BI Server and can connect to it. I'm using OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1 (I also need to do something similar with OBIEE 11g). I've posted this question to the Informatica forum as well.
In order to use OBIEE as a third-party relational data source, Informatica needs OBIEE's DLL for metadata imports.
I've tried, with no luck, NQSODBC.DLL & NQSDRIVER.DLL.
Does anyone know what DLL it might be? It could be an issue on Informatica's end as well.
Thanks.

Hi,
For some more details, you can refer to the following document;
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/discoverer/discoverer-metadata-conversion-assi-128504.pdf
My personal expreriences:
The Metadata Conversion Utility is an accellerator / assistant. It does not provide you with an end product. There is some additional handwork requiered. It could be a risk when you copy an old Oracle Discoverer environment. Shit in is shit out. Last but not least; There is not yet a workbook migration utility.
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Daan Bakboord
http://obibb.wordpress.com

Multiple data sources in OC4J 10g

I've read through the documentation, searched metalink and searched the posts on the forums. There's so many examples out there that I've gotten myself confused. I haven't been able to locate an example for me, though.
After all that reading, I still don't quite understand JNDI and data sources. There's 2 problems that I'm running into that are somewhat related.
First off, most of the examples I've found seem to indicate that I can make up whatever name I want to put in for location. I seem to be missing something, because then my application cannot find that data source.
The second problem, is the basis for the first problem. I was able to create one data source which used the location jdbc/OracleCoreDS. However, since I work in an environment with multiple oracle databases, I wanted to create data sources for those other databases, the only difference being the URL. Enterprise Manager will not let me create another data source with the same location.
I was hoping someone could explain to me what else needs to happen to link up my own value for location so that my application can find the data source.
Thanks

Hello,
A data source entry is for one single database, so if you have multiple database to connect into your application you must create 1 entry per database (eg: jdbc/database1 jdbc/database2)
If you want to manage transactions over multiple databases (2 Phases Commit) you should the distributed transaction coordinator (DTC) provided within OracleAS.
For these 2 points (multi DB and transaction) I am inviting you to read the chapter 4-Datasources) on the "Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE: Services Guide"
Regards
Tugdual Grall

Dynamic data source on 10g requires valid data source associated in report

I'm currently using the dynamic JDBC data source feature of PublicReportService_v11 in BI Publisher 10.1.3.4.1 (March 2011 patch applied) and it seems that the BIP report still requires a valid JDBC data source associated with it before the specified dynamic one can be properly used.
Using SoapUI, I tried sending a runReport request with a dynamic JDBC data source for a BIP report that is associated to an invalid/dummy JDBC data source and got the following fault string:
oracle.apps.xdo.webservice.exception.OperationFailedException: PublicReportService::generateReport failed: due to java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon deniedAssociating the BIP report to a valid JDBC data source but different from the specified one on the runReport request does make this feature work - data in the BIP report does come from the specified dynamic JDBC data source. I'm just wondering if this is the right behavior for this feature? It seems a little counter intuitive because you already specified a JDBC data source in the request message which I'm assuming will be used by the report you're requesting instead of whatever is the currently associated data source on the report.

If it is open, then try
Named range: ConsolLink = Range("Consol File.xlsm'!Source_OpexConsol")
And if it is not currently open, then try
Dim W As Workbook
Set W = Workbooks.Open("R:\Root\Sub1\Sub2\Consol
File.xlsm")
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Range("Consol File.xlsm'!Source_OpexConsol")
W.Close False

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