Created by the Community for the Community Setting up and Working with the WCF LOB Oracle Adapter

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Created by the Community for the Community Overview of WCF LOB Adapter for Oracle WALKTHROUGH : Setting-up and Configuring a working environment. DEMO : Using the Oracle LOB Adapter ( ‘Hello Oracle’) Other functionality provided by the Adapter. Summary

Created by the Community for the Community Built on top of WCF LOB Adapter SDK Why a WCF LOB Adapter ? Provides Common basis for building integration adapters A variety of applications can use, not just BizTalk Aligns with the adapter strategy that Microsoft has with exposing integration services via the WCF channel architecture. As the documenation states : Consistent design-time expericence Varied programming options Uniform experience across LOBs

Created by the Community for the Community BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0/WCF LOB Adapter SDK Poster

Created by the Community for the Community What can you do with Oracle Adapter ? Add or remove data from a table Poll for data changes in tables Can access data in these tables using Views Functions And procedures Can browse database objects and generate schemas (metadata) for interacting with the adpater

Created by the Community for the Community How does it all work ? Basically, the oracle database is exposed as a WCF service You perform operations by exchanging SOAP Internally adapter converts message to ODP.NET An Operation is then returned via SOAP message BizTalk Server BizTalk WCF Adapter WCF Oracle Database Adapter SOAP Message ORACLE DB ODP.NET

Created by the Community for the Community Working Environment ORACLE DB – Running on Windows 2008 Server BizTalk 2009 ( with LOB Oracle Adapter installed ) What do you need to install ? ORACLE – Virtual Oracle 11g BizTalk 2009 Oracle 11g ( Client and Runtime ) ODAC WCF LOB Adapter SDK with SP2 Adapter Pack 2.0

Created by the Community for the Community Installing and Configuring Oracle 11g on a Windows 2008 Server. What you need to install ? - Windows 2008 Server (latest windows updates) - Oracle 11g database

Created by the Community for the Community Installing and Configuring WCF LOB Oracle Adapter. What you need to install ? BizTalk 2009 Oracle 11g ( Client and Runtime ) ODAC WCF LOB Adapter SDK Adapter Pack 2.0

Created by the Community for the Community Using the WCF LOB Oracle Adapter.

Created by the Community for the Community Samples available Func_RecordTypes Demonstrates how to use RECORD type parameters and return values in functions and procedures using the Oracle Database adapter. Func_RefCursor Demonstrates how to use REF CURSOR parameters in functions and procedures using the Oracle Database adapter. InvokeFunction Demonstrates how to invoke a function in Oracle database using the Oracle Database adapter. InvokeOverloadedProc Demonstrates how to invoke with overloaded functions and procedures in Oracle database using the Oracle Database adapter. Operate_BFILE Demonstrates how to use Oracle BFILE types in Oracle procedures using the Oracle Database adapter. Operate_LOB Demonstrates how to perform ReadLOB and UpdateLOB operations on tables with LOB data types using the Oracle Database adapter. SelectAccTable Demonstrates how to perform a select query on an Oracle database table using the Oracle Database adapter. SqlExec Demonstrates how to perform parameterized queries using the SQLEXECUTE operation on an Oracle database using the Oracle Database adapter.

Created by the Community for the Community What did we look at ? How to setup and configure a fully working environment where you can play and learn using the Oracle LOB Adapter. What did we learn ? Learned how to configure connectivity to Oracle using the Adapter How to extract schemas for various db objects. How to poll data from oracle db table and how to generate a polling schema What’s next ? You now have an environment that you can try the sample applications provided by Microsoft for using the Oracle LOB Adapter.

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