Configuring Oracle Accounts

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Overview

You must configure Oracle accounts to enable Oracle Snaps to connect to Oracle instances.

Upcoming

JDBC Driver Upgrade

The Oracle JDBC Driver is upgraded from OJDBC6 JAR (v11.2.0.4) to OJDBC10 JAR (v19.20.0.0) in the latest distribution in October 2023 and deployed to the stable distribution in the November 2023 release (after the Snaplex upgrade). The latest JDBC driver upgrade is backward-compatible. Learn more: Oracle JDBC Driver Upgrade from v11.2.0.4 to v19.20.0.0 and JOOQ Upgrade from v3.9.1 to 3.17.x.

You can consume this driver upgrade with the 434patches23000 Snap Pack version.

Behavior Change

This JDBC driver upgrade has resulted in specific behavior changes that include errors, status codes, and success and failure messages. Learn more about the behavior changes to ensure your migration to the upgraded driver is seamless. 

Snap-Account Compatibility 

You can configure Oracle accounts in SnapLogic using either the Designer or Manager.

Using SnapLogic Designer

Drag an Oracle Snap to the Canvas and click the Snap to open its settings. Click the Account tab. You can now either use an existing account or create a new one.

  1. Click the  icon to view the accounts to which you have access and select the account to use.
  2. Click 

Configuring a new account

  1. Click Add Account in the Account Reference dialog.

  2. Select the Location to create the account, select the account type, and click ContinueThe Add Account dialog associated with the account type appears.
  1. Enter the required account details. For detailed guidance to configure each account type, click the following links:

    Best Practice

    Enter additional information on this account in the Notes field of the Info tab to guide other users of this account, especially if there are multiple accounts of the same type.

  2. Click Validate to verify the account, if the account type supports validation.

  3. Click Apply to complete configuring the Oracle account.

Using SnapLogic Manager

Use Manager to create accounts without associating them immediately with specific SnapLogic Pipelines.

Accounts in SnapLogic are associated with projects. You can use accounts created in other projects only if you have at least Read access to them.

  1. In the left pane, browse to the project in which you want to create the account and click CreateAccount Orcle, followed by the appropriate account type.


     The Create Account dialog associated with the selected account type appears.

  2. Repeat the steps numbered 3 through 5 in Configuring Oracle Accounts#Configuring a new account above.

    Avoid updating account credentials while Pipelines using that account are executing. This may lead to unexpected results, including locking your account in SnapLogic.


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Release Snap Pack VersionDateType  Updates
August 2024438patches27870 Latest

Fixed an issue with the Oracle - Merge Snap that caused a date format error when the merge condition was used with the TO_DATE() function.

August 2024main27765 Stable
  • Added Oracle - Parallel Load Snap that executes a high-performance data load by inserting data in parallel across multi-threaded tasks.

  • Enhanced the Oracle Insert, Merge, Update, and Delete Snaps to support the Enable, Disable, and Force commands in the Session parameters that enable you to dynamically manage specific session settings.

May 2024437patches26651 Latest
  • Enhanced the Oracle Thin and Oracle Thin Dynamic Accounts to support Kerberos authentication for Oracle databases on Windows and Linux systems.

  • Enhanced the Oracle - Delete Snap with the Session parameters field set that provides National Language Support (NLS). Learn more about Setting NLS Parameters.

May 2024437patches26346 Latest

Fixed an issue with the Oracle - Execute Snap that displayed an error when handling OffsetDateTime type bindings.

May 2024main26341 StableUpdated the Delete Condition (Truncates a Table if empty) field in the Oracle - Delete Snap to Delete condition (deletes all records from a table if left blank) to indicate that all entries will be deleted from the table when this field is blank, but no truncate operation is performed.
February 2024436patches26208 Latest

Fixed an issue with Oracle - Bulk Load Snap that intermittently displayed a null pointer exception. The exception is now replaced with ConfigurationException.

February 2024436patches25696 Latest
  • Fixed an issue with the Oracle - Bulk Load Snap to handle the type definition of nvarchar and nchar data types by defining them in the control file of the SQL loader.

  • Fixed an issue with the Oracle - Bulk Load Snap that incorrectly incremented the year part of the DATE datatype for specific datasets.

  • Fixed an issue with the Oracle - Merge Snap that did not handle the timestamp conversion correctly when the time was not in the hh:mm format and had single digits (for example, 1:9) in the timestamp.

  • The Oracle - Execute Snap displays both the status and the message in the output when you call stored procedures.

Behavior Change:

As part of 436patches25696, when you use a stored procedure in the Oracle - Execute Snap, the Snap displays Message: Success and $UPDATE_COUNT=-1, 0, or 1 (based on the Snap Pack behavior) in the output

February 2024

main25112

 StableUpdated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
November 2023435patches24769 Latest

Fixed an issue with the Oracle Snap Pack that required the i18n extensions to be present when the Oracle database instance was in a specific language.

November 2023435patches24445 Latest
November 2023435patches23823 Latest
  • Fixed an issue with the Oracle-Stored Procedure Snap that displayed an error (SnapDataException) when custom JAR files were used in the Oracle Accounts.

  • Fixed an issue with the Oracle-Stored Procedure Snap that displayed an error when custom JAR files were used for BLOB and CLOB datatypes in the Oracle Accounts.

November 2023main23721

 

StableUpdated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
August 2023434patches23000 Latest

The JDBC driver for the Oracle Snap Pack is upgraded from OJDBC6 JAR (v11.2.0.4) to OJDBC10 JAR (v19.20.0.0) in the latest distribution in October 2023 and will be deployed to the stable distribution in the November 2023 release (after the Snaplex upgrade). This upgrade changes specific error codes and status messages. The latest JDBC driver upgrade is backward-compatible. Learn more: Upgrading from Oracle JDBC 11.2.0.4 Driver to 19.20.0.0 Driver.

August 2023434patches22787 Latest

Fixed an issue with the Oracle-Bulk Load Snap that was not resilient to the errors previously when trying to auto-discover the existing SQLLDR utility paths in the node. The Snap is now robust to those errors.

August 2023

main22460

 


Stable

The Oracle - Execute Snap now includes a new Query type field. When Auto is selected, the Snap tries to determine the query type automatically.

May 2023

main21015 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.

February 2023main19844 StableUpgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.

November 2022

431patches19781 Latest

The Oracle-Stored Procedure Snap works as expected and does not fail with the error Invalid value type when you pass BLOB data as a parameter to the stored procedure with BLOB datatype.

November 2022

431patches19275 Latest

The Oracle - Stored Procedure Snap now supports stored functions with OUT and INOUT parameters and displays these parameter values in the output along with the returnval key.

November 2022main18944 Stable

The Oracle Insert Snap now creates the target table only from the table metadata of the second input view when the following conditions are met:

  • The Create table if not present checkbox is selected.

  • The target table does not exist.

  • The table metadata is provided in the second input view.

September 2022430patches17894 Latest

The Oracle Select Snap now work as expected when the table name is dependent on an upstream input.

August 2022430patches17658 LatestThe Oracle - Stored Procedure Snap now takes lesser time to execute when calling a stored procedure, because the Snap queries the metadata as required, thereby optimizing the Snap's performance.
August 2022main17386 Stable
  • Enhanced the Oracle - Merge and Oracle - Update Snaps with the Session parameters fieldset that provides National Language Support (NLS).
  • Enhanced the Oracle - Stored Procedure Snap with a process that caches the fetched procedure metadata. Hence, the Snap processes the metadata calls only for the first few documents and does not process for subsequent documents, thereby improving the Snap's performance.
4.29 Patch429patches16603 Latest
  • Fixed an issue with Oracle Bulk Load Snap where the Snap encountered an error when trying to load data into Timestampwithtimezone datatype field.

  • Fixed an issue with Oracle Execute Snap where the Snap did not display a valid error message when the delete condition was invalid.

  • Fixed an issue with Oracle - Merge Snap where the Snap displayed an error when the Retry Interval and Number of Retries fields were expression enabled and the values were passed using the Pipeline parameters.

  • Fixed an issue with the Oracle Stored Procedure Snap where the Snap errored out due to an upgrade made to HikariCP that caused a conditional failure and prevented the downstream Snaps to supply the parameters to the stored procedure. 

  • Enhanced the Oracle - Merge and Oracle - Update Snaps with the Session Parameters fieldset that provides National Language Support (NLS).

4.29

main15993

 

Stable

Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.

4.28main14627 Stable
  • Enhanced the Oracle - Update Snap to accept values in the Number of Retries and Retry Interval (seconds) fields from Pipeline parameters only. 

  • Enhanced the Oracle Bulk Load Snap with the Column Length Overrides field set to support CLOB (Character Large Object) and NCLOB (National Character Large Object) data types that may require a large buffer size, allowing users to load large amounts of data into a single column store of data type CLOB or NCLOB.

  • Updated the label for Delete Condition to Delete Condition (Truncates Table if empty) in the Snap Oracle Delete Snap
4.27main12833 Stable
  • Enhanced the Oracle - Execute Snap to invoke stored procedures.
  • Enhanced the Oracle Bulk Load Snap with Additional SQL Loader Parameters field set to define additional SQL Loader parameters if required.
4.26main11181 StableUpgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.25425patches11008 Latest
  • Improved the support for the CLOB data type in the Oracle - Insert Snap. 
  • Improved the error messages for all the Snaps in the Oracle Snap Pack where the Snaps fail with Null Pointer Exception when the account reference provided is invalid. 
4.25main9554
 
StableUpgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.24main8556
Stable
  • Enhances the Oracle - Select Snap to return only the selected output fields or columns in the output schema (second output view) using the Fetch Output Fields In Schema check box. If the Output Fields field is empty all the columns are visible. 
  • Enhances the Oracle - Stored Procedure Snap to ignore the parameters evaluated as null by using the Ignore Null Parameters check box. This applies to parameters with defined default values.
4.23main7430
 
StableUpgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.22main6403
 
StableUpgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.21 Patch421patches6272 Latest

Fixes the issue where Snowflake SCD2 Snap generates two output documents despite no changes to Cause-historization fields with DATE, TIME and TIMESTAMP Snowflake data types, and with Ignore unchanged rows field selected.

4.21 Patch421patches6144 Latest

Fixes the following issues with DB Snaps:

  • The connection thread waits indefinitely causing the subsequent connection requests to become unresponsive.
  • Connection leaks occur during Pipeline execution.
4.21 PatchMULTIPLE8841 LatestFixes the connection issue in Database Snaps by detecting and closing open connections after the Snap execution ends.
4.21snapsmrc542

 

Stable

Updated the Oracle Thin Account and Oracle Thin Dynamic Account, enabling them to connect via Oracle Active Data Guard (ADG).

4.20 Patch 

db/oracle8812Latest

Enhances the Oracle Snap Pack to support connections to the Oracle ADG (Active Data Guard) URL.

4.20 Patch 

db/oracle8803  Latest

Support for Oracle Database 19c.

4.20snapsmrc535
 
StableUpgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.19 Patch db/oracle8408 Latest

Fixes an issue with the Oracle - Update Snap wherein the Snap is unable to perform operations when:

  • An expression is used in the Update condition property.
  • Input data contain the character '?'.
4.19snaprsmrc528
 
StableUpgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.18 Patchoracle7786 Latest

Fixes an issue using the NVARCHAR2 datatype in Oracle databases when the character set is not AL32UTF8. However, a known issue is that special characters display as (question).

4.18snapsmrc523
 
StableUpgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.17 Patch db/oracle7459 Latest

Fixed an issue with the Oracle Stored Procedure Snap wherein the Pipeline execution fails with an error when the input data type is CLOB.

4.17ALL7402
 
Latest

Pushed automatic rebuild of the latest version of each Snap Pack to SnapLogic UAT and Elastic servers.

4.17snapsmrc515
 
Latest
  • Fixed an issue with the Oracle Execute Snap wherein the Snap would send the input document to the output view even if the Pass through field is not selected in the Snap configuration. With this fix, the Snap sends the input document to the output view, under the key original, only if you select the Pass through field.
  • Added the Snap Execution field to all Standard-mode Snaps. In some Snaps, this field replaces the existing Execute during preview check box.

4.16 Patch 

db/oracle6919 Latest

Added a new property, Session parameters, in the Oracle Insert Snap to enable the use of National Language Support (NLS) parameters.

4.16 Patch 

db/oracle6824 Latest

Fixed an issue with the Lookup Snap passing data simultaneously to output and error views when some values contained spaces at the end.

4.16snapsmrc508
 
StableUpgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.15 Patch db/oracle6534 Latest

Improved performance in Pipelines that contain child Pipelines.

4.15 Patch db/oracle6417 Latest

Fixed an issue with data types conversion. All fields with byte, short, int, or long data types will be converted to BigInteger after fetching.

4.15 Patch db/oracle6284 Latest

Replaced the existing Max idle time and Idle connection test period properties with Max life time and Idle Timeout properties respectively, in the Account configuration. The new properties fix the connection release issues that were occurring due to default/restricted DB Account settings.

4.15snapsmrc500
 
StableUpgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.14snapsmrc490
 
StableUpgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.

4.13 Patch 

db/oracle5192 Latest
  • Fixed the Oracle Bulk Load Snap that stores special characters incorrectly in the target table.
  • Fixed the Oracle Bulk Load Snap that throws a NullPointerException error when the input letter case does not match with that of the Oracle table.
4.13

snapsmrc486

 
StableUpgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.12 Patchoracle4862 Latest

Fixed an issue in the Oracle Bulk Load Snap that fails to execute the SQLLDR (SQL Loader) command, while also enhancing the support for the TCPS protocol.

4.12 Patch db/oracle4721 Latest

Added a property, "SSL/TCPS" for Oracle Account.

4.12 PatchMULTIPLE4744 Latest

Enabled expression for Delete Condition in Oracle Delete Snap. 

4.12

snapsmrc480

 
StableUpgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.

4.11 Patch 

db/oracle4369 Latest

Enhanced the Oracle Bulk Load Snap to accept date-type values in the format "yyyy-mm-dd".

4.11snapsmrc465
 
StableUpgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.10 Patchoracle3633 Latest

Fixed BULK LOAD so it adds the thread name to the name of the temporary directory. This allows multiple BULK LOAD Snaps within a single pipeline.

4.10

snapsmrc414

 
Stable

Added Auto commit property to the Select and Execute Snaps at the Snap level to support overriding of the Auto commit property at the Account level.

4.9.0 Patch

oracle3188 Latest

Fixed the issue that "NaN" check was done to unexpected data types like varchar.

4.9.0 Patch

oracle3096 Latest

Fixed a class casting issue for custom data types(BLOB, CLOB, NCLOB, etc) when custom Oracle JDBC driver is used.

4.9.0 Patch

oracle3071 Latest

Fixed an issue regarding connection not closed after login failure; Expose autocommit for "Select into" statement in PostgreSQL Execute Snap and Redshift Execute Snap.

4.9snapsmrc405
 
StableUpgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.

4.8.0 Patch

oracle2905

 


Latest

Fix for SQL*Loader interpreting white-space only data as null values.

4.8.0 Patch

oracle2756

 Latest

Potential fix for JDBC deadlock issue.

4.8.0 Patch

oracle2711 Latest

Fixed Oracle Snap Pack rendering dates that are one hour off from the date returned by database query for non-UTC Snaplexes.

4.8

snapsmrc398

 
Stable

Database accounts now invalidate connection pools if account properties are modified and login attempts fail.

4.7.0 Patch

oracle2190 Latest

Fixed an issue with the Oracle Select Snap regarding Limit rows not supporting an empty string from a pipeline parameter.

4.7

snapsmrc382

 
Stable
  • Updated the Oracle - Stored Procedure Snap with the Pass through field. 
  • Resolved an issue in Oracle - Stored Procedure Snap that caused invalid column type failures.
  • Oracle - Bulk Load updated to handle dates the same way as Oracle - Insert. Acceptable format for timestamp strings:
    • Prior to 4.7, the only acceptable timestamp format was  "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.SSS", such as 2016-11-07 10:55:12

    • It now also supports:

      • ISO8601 formats (plus fractional seconds) without timezone.

             "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.SSS", (ex: 2016-11-07T10:55:12)
             "yyyymmddThhmmss.SSS", (ex: 20161107T105512)

      • ISO8601 formats with time zone. ONLY 'zulu' and 'UTC' at this time. Note that there is no space before the 'Z' but is a space before the 'UTC'.

             "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.SSSZ"
             "yyyymmddThhmmss.SSSZ"

             "yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.SSS UTC"
             "yyyymmddThhmmss.SSS UTC"

             ex: 2016-11-07T10:55:12Z
             ex: 20161107T105512Z

             ex: 2016-11-07T10:55:12 UTC
             ex: 20161107T105512 UTC

        The ISO8601 format is used by many web services, Oracle Bulk Loader, and others.

4.6snapsmrc362
 
Stable
  • Resolved an issue in Oracle Select Snap that caused failures in the second output view when retrieving outputs from a table with a dot (.) character.
  • Enhanced the Oracle Select Snap to fully support SQL statements with/without expressions & SQL bind variables.
  • Extended support for Oracle Thin Dynamic accounts.
4.5.1

oracle1583

 
Stable
  • Updated the Bulk Load Snap with a new field, Use direct path load, to enhance bulk loading performance.
  • Resolved an issue with Oracle Select Snap failing if the table name included a dot (.) character.
4.4.1NA Stable
  • Oracle Select: Resolved an issue with database access error occurring while iterating over table name result set when using an uploaded driver with a different version than the bundled driver.
  • Resolved an issue with Oracle Stored Procedure Snap not accepting CLOB data.
  • Made improvements to JDBC auto-commit consistency.
4.4NA Stable
  • Table List Snap: A new option, Compute table graph, now lets you determine whether or not to generate dependents data into the output.
  • Oracle Bulk Load
    • Resolved an issue with a pipeline never completing.
    • Resolved an issue with pipeline statistics, bulk load summary statistics not matching and bulk load summary was confusing.
    • Maximum error count field added to set the maximum number of rows which can fail before the bulk load operation is stopped.
    • Mixed-case matching option removed.
    • Added error messaging to handle BLOB type data trying to be loaded to an Oracle table when not supported.
    • Resolved an issue with the record separator of the input file not being processed correctly.
    • Improved error messages for when data types do not match.
  • Oracle Stored Procedure: All accessible objects are now visible during design.
4.3.2NA Stable
  • Resolved an issue with Oracle Select not reading table names: Database access error occurred while iterating over table name result set.
  • Resolved an issue with Oracle Bulk load failure: String index out of range: -1.
NANA Stable
  • Oracle Lookup failed in preview if DATE column was used for Lookup conditions
  • Dynamic DB queries now supported in the Execute Snap.
  • The SQL statement property now can be set as an expression property. When it is an expression, it will be evaluated with each input document and one SQL statement per each input document will be executed.
  • Known issue: When the SQL statement property is an expression, the pipeline parameters are shown in the suggest, but not the input schema.
  • With the SQL statement property set as an expression, the Snap can be exposed to SQL injection. Please use this feature with caution.
  • Oracle Insert: When a string value is entered into a date col, its successfully inserting into db with null
  • Oracle Stored Procedure: parameter type list was not populating even if a procedure had custom types defined.
NANA Stable
  • Oracle Execute error - no more documents will be written to SLFS
  • Oracle Execute Snap failing with maximum number of documents reached
  • Oracle Select Snap - Early dates are corrupted when reading data
  • Oracle select- with date data type does not return Time(hh:mm:ss)
  • Oracle Stored Procedure fails with error- Reason: invalid name pattern: TECTONIC.null
  • Oracle Stored Procedure - fails with - "invalid name pattern: TECTONIC.strarray32 " when type name given in lower case
NANA Stable
  • The version number of the default Oracle JDBC driver (shared/ojdbc-6.1.jar) is now 11.2.0.4.
  • Fixed the following defects:
    • Oracle Stored Procedure: suggest method for parameter index throws -Suggestion value cannot be empty for property: customTypeParameterIndex
    • Oracle Stored Procedure: Parameter index suggest throws "invalid path" when no schema nor procedure is selected

    • Oracle Stored Procedure: If there is no type defined in Schema, suggest throwing Suggestion value cannot be empty for property: customTypeParameterType

    • Oracle Stored Procedure: When custom type created in different schema, its not populating through Snap
    • Oracle Select- Order by property as parameter fails
    • Oracle Stored Procedure: Parameter type list- Can we make it in an order
    • Oracle Snaps- When in account given a username which dont have privileges to access other schema, upon suggest all schema 's are populating
    • Oracle Stored Procedure: NPE
    • Oracle Stored Procedure: invalid name pattern: TECTONIC.STR_ARRAY_32_$
    • Oracle Stored Procedure: Procedure name mismatch error - suggest from parameter type when no package selected
    • Oracle Stored Procedure: When in a schema if there are no types defined, showing null in type and index value
    • Oracle Merge: error: "SQL operation failed"
    • Oracle merge condition when expression is enabled, input schema in not getting populated
    • Oracle Merge with expression more than 2 columns not working.getting Invalid identifier
    • Oracle Merge: When expression enable- Fails with Failure: Could not evaluate expression:
    • Oracle Stored Procedure: Failure: Failed to execute callable statement. Cause: invalid name pattern: TECTONIC.null.