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⇱ Rapidly Develop Oracle Service Cloud-Driven Apps with Active Query Builder

Rapidly Develop Oracle Service Cloud-Driven Apps with Active Query Builder

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Leverage the Active Query Builder SQL interface and .NET data access to create data-driven WinForms and ASP.NET apps backed by Oracle Service Cloud.

Write standard .NET to expose Oracle Service Cloud data through an SQL interface: Active Query Builder helps developers write SQL interfaces; the CData ODBC Driver for Oracle Service Cloud enables standards-based access to Oracle Service Cloud. This integration uses the Microsoft ADO.NET Provider for ODBC as a bridge between the ODBC Driver and the Active Query Builder objects to build a visual SQL composer.

Connect to Oracle Service Cloud as an ODBC Data Source

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

Using Basic Authentication

You must set the following to authenticate to Oracle Service Cloud:

  • Url: The Url of the account to connect to.
  • User: The username of the authenticating account.
  • Password: The password of the authenticating account.

Use SQL to Interact with Oracle Service Cloud

Follow the steps below to create a WinForms visual query builder.

  1. Open Active Query Builder for .NET WinForms. 👁 Opening Active Query Builder.
  2. In the new Windows Forms project go to the "File" menu and click "Connect..."
  3. Under Database Connections, click "Add..." 👁 Adding a new Connection.
  4. Set your desired Connection Name (e.g. CData Oracle Service Cloud), set Connection Type to "ODBC" and locate your previously configured DSN in the "User/System" DSN dropdown. 👁 Selecting a previously configured DSN (Amazon Athena is shown).
  5. Click "OK" to save the new connection.
  6. Back in the Database Connection wizard, select the newly created connection and click "OK." 👁 A newly added Connection (Amazon Athena is shown).
  7. Click "File" > "New Query" to create a QueryBuilder

You can now build queries visually: Double-click a table in the Columns Pane Area and an entity/relationship diagram is displayed in the Query Building Area. Columns that you select in the diagram are added to the query.

👁 Building queries interactively with Active Query Builder.

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Oracle Service Cloud ODBC Driver

The Oracle Service Cloud ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live data from Oracle Service Cloud, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access Oracle Service Cloud data like you would a database - read, write, and update Oracle Service Cloud 0, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.