User Guide : Map Connectors : Source and Target Map Connectors : Oracle 10g, 11g, and 12c Multimode
 
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Oracle 10g, 11g, and 12c Multimode
Oracle is a relational database management system. With the Oracle 10g, 11g, and 12c Multimode connectors, you can perform create, read, update, and delete operations on Oracle 10g, 11g, and 12c data tables. With this connector, you can write to multiple target tables within a SQL RDBMS.
Multimode connectors allow you to perform multiple operations, such as table drops and table inserts, directly on your target database.
Note:  You must have the Oracle 10g, 11g, or 12c standard 64-bit client installed on your system and you must have access to Oracle. If Oracle is installed on your local PC, the drive and directory path of your Oracle application must be included in your path. The path statement is automatically modified when your Oracle client software is installed. The Oracle Database Manager must be running.
Oracle 11g and 12c multimode connectors support Oracle wallet to manage public key security credentials on Oracle clients. If you have configured the Oracle client to use Oracle wallet, then you can provide only the Database Alias name and connect to the source or target within a map (User Name and Password is not required.) For information about Oracle wallet and how to create it in the client, see Using Oracle Wallet Manager section in the Oracle Database Advanced Security Administrator's Guide available at the following location:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/network.111/b28530/asowalet.htm#i1006322
Other Oracle Connectors
You can connect to Oracle interfaces in the following ways:
Oracle Direct Path: Deliver incremental loads of detail data to data warehouses and data marts. See Oracle Direct Path 10g, 11g, and 12c.
Oracle SQL Loader: Produce flat loader files that can be uploaded into an Oracle database using the Oracle SQL Loader utility. See Oracle SQL Loader.
Oracle Siebel CRM On Demand 12 and 14: Access data through the OnDemand Web Services interface with this multimode connector. See Oracle Siebel CRM On Demand 12 and 14.
This connector sets field width in bytes. What actually varies is the number of characters that fit into a given field. For example, if a field width is 10 bytes and the encoding is Shift-JIS, the field can hold a minimum of 5 characters and a maximum of 10. This means that if you try to write 8 Japanese characters, data is truncated (the Kanji characters all take 2 bytes).
Connectivity Pointers
The Oracle standard client must be installed to connect to Oracle 10g, 11g, and 12c databases.
Connector-Specific Notes
Data Types: BINARY_FLOAT and BINARY_DOUBLE data types are not supported on Linux systems.
Unicode Support: The Oracle 10g, 11g, and 12c multimode connectors include Unicode support for wide characters. To enable double-byte support, change the Regional and Language Options on your system to a double-byte language, such as Japanese.
Property Options
You can set the following target properties in Oracle 10g, 11g, and 12c multimode connections.
Property
Version
Use
AllowDistributedTransactions
10g, 11g, 12c
If set to true (default), distributed transaction processing is allowed.
Code Page
10g
The code page translation table tells the integration platform which encoding to use for reading and writing data. The default is ANSI, which is the standard in the US. For the supported list, see CodePage.
Directory Alias
10g, 11g, 12c
Allows you to specify the name of the Directory Alias. There is no default.
Encoding
11g, 12c
Determines how to store characters in Oracle 11g and 12 c target files. Default is OEM.
For encoding choices, see Encoding Reference.
SQL Log
10g, 11g, 12c
The default is sql.log in the default installation directory. To use a different log, browse to the file, or enter the path and file name.
SQL Output
10g, 11g, 12c
Allows you to select bound or unbound mode and whether you want to write SQL statements to a SQL log or not. Keep in mind that bound mode is faster, since bind variables are used.
Target Only – Uses bound mode, which uses bind variables. SQL statements are sent to the Target and not to the SQL log specified in the SQL Log property. Default.
Target Only (Unbound Mode) – Uses unbound mode, which does not use bind variables and sends the literal SQL statement to the database engine. SQL statements are sent to the Target and not to the SQL log specified in the SQL Log property.
Target and SQL Log – Sends SQL statements to the Target and to the SQL log specified in the SQL Log property.
SQL Log Only – Sends SQL statements only to the SQL log file specified in the SQL Log property.
Synonyms
10g, 11g, 12c
If set to true, allows you to see synonyms. The alias names appear in the table list along with the tables. Default is false.
SystemTables
10g, 11g, 12c
If set to true, this property allows you to see all tables created by the DBA in the database. The system table names appear in the table list. Default is false.
UpdateNullFields
10g, 11g, 12c
Null values are sent to the database when inserting or updating records. The default is true. If you select False, null values are not sent to the database when you insert or update records. When set to false, this property forces the connector to operate in unbound mode, which may cause slower performance.
Best Practice — If fields in the target record are not mapped, then the null values are passed to the target. If you do not want to write to these fields, then it is recommended to set the value for UpdateNullFields to False.
Views
10g, 11g, 12c
If set to true (default), allows you to see views. View names appear in the table list along with table names.
CodePage
This translation table determines which encoding to use for reading and writing data. The default is ANSI, the standard in the US. The following code pages are available:
ANSI (default)
OEM
0037 US (EBCDIC)
0273 Germany (EBCDIC)
0277 Norway (EBCDIC)
0278 Sweden (EBCDIC)
0280 Italy (EBCDIC)
0284 Spain (EBCDIC)
0285 UK (EBCDIC)
0297 France (EBCDIC)
0437 MSDOS United States
0500 Belgium (EBCDIC)
0850 MSDOS Multilingual (Latin 1)
0860 MSDOS Portuguese
0861 MSDOS Icelandic
0863 MSDOS Canadian French
0865 MSDOS Nordic
1051 Roman-8
Length
These are field lengths in your data. If you need to change field lengths, reset them in the schema.
Caution!  A field length shorter than the default may truncate data.
Data Types
The following data types are supported for Oracle 10g, 11g, and 12c.
Name
Syntax
Notes
VARCHAR2
(size[BYTE|CHAR])
Variable-length character string having maximum length of size bytes. Maximum size is 4000 bytes and minimum is 1 byte. You must specify size for VARCHAR2.
BYTE indicates the column has byte length semantics.
NVARCHAR2
(size)
Variable-length character string having maximum length of size bytes. Maximum size is determined by the national character set definition. You must specify size for NVARCHAR2.
NUMBER
(p,s)
Number having precision p and scale s. The precision p can range from 1 to 38. The scale s can range from -84 to 127.
LONG
N/A
Character data of variable length up to 64000 bytes.
DATE
N/A
Valid date range from January 1, 4712 BC to December 31, 9999 AD.
BINARY_FLOAT
N/A
32-bit floating point number. This data type requires 5 bytes, including the length byte.
BINARY_DOUBLE
N/A
64-bit floating point number. This data type requires 9 bytes, including the length byte.
TIMESTAMP
(fractional_seconds_precision)
Year, month and day values of date, as well as hour, minute and second values of time, where fractional_seconds_precision is the number of digits in the fractional part of the SECOND datetime field. Accepted values of fractional_seconds_precision are 0 to 9. The default is 6.
TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE
(fractional_seconds_precision)
All values of TIMESTAMP as well as TIME ZONE displacement value, where fractional_seconds_precision is the number of digits in the fractional part of the SECOND datetime field. Accepted values are 0 to 9. The default is 6.
TIMESTAMP with LOCAL TIME ZONE
(fractional_seconds_precision)
All values of TIMESTAMP with TIME ZONE, with the following exceptions:
Data is normalized to the database time zone when it is stored in the database.
When the data is retrieved, users see the data in the session time zone.
INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH
(year_precision)
Stores a period of time in years and months, where year_precision is the number of digits in the YEAR datetime field. Accepted values are 0 to 9. The default is 2.
INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND
(day_precision) (fractional_seconds_precision)
Stores a period of time in days, hours, minutes and seconds, where
day_precision is the maximum number of digits in the DAY datetime field. Accepted values are 0 to 9. The default is 2.
fractional_seconds_precision is the number of digits in the fractional part of the SECOND field. Accepted values are 0 to 9. The default is 6.
RAW
(size)
Raw binary data of length of size bytes. Maximum size is 2000 bytes. You must specify size for a RAW value.
LONG RAW
N/A
Raw binary data of variable length up to 2 GB.
ROWID
N/A
Base 64 string representing the unique address of a row in its table. This data type is primarily for values returned by the ROWID pseudocolumn.
UROWID
[(size)]
Base 64 string representing the logical address of a row of an index-organized table. The optional size is the size of a column of type UROWID. The maximum size and default is 4000 bytes.
CHAR
(size [BYTE|CHAR])
Fixed-length character data of length of size bytes. Maximum size is 2000 bytes or characters. Default and minimum size is 1 byte. BYTE and CHAR have the same semantics as VARCHAR2.
NCHAR
(size)
Fixed-length character data of length of size characters. Maximum size is determined by the national character set definition, with an upper limit of 2000 bytes. Default and minimum size is 1 character.
CLOB
N/A
A character large object containing single- or multibyte characters. Both fixed and variable-width character sets are supported, both using the database character set. Maximum size is (4 GB - 1 byte) * (database block size).
NCLOB
N/A
A character large object containing Unicode characters. Both fixed-width and variable width character sets are supported, both using the database national character set. Maximum size is (4 GB - 1 byte) * (database block size). Stores national character set data.
BLOB
N/A
A binary large object. Maximum size is (4 GB - 1 byte) * (database block size).
BFILE
N/A
Contains a locator to a large binary file stored outside the database. Enables byte stream I/O access to external LOBs residing on the database server. Maximum size is 4 GB.