How to pipe Oracle Service Cloud Data to CSV in PowerShell

The CData Cmdlets Module for Oracle Service Cloud is a standard PowerShell module offering straightforward integration with Oracle Service Cloud. Below, you will find examples of using our OracleServiceCloud Cmdlets with native PowerShell cmdlets.

Creating a Connection to Your Oracle Service Cloud Data

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.

$conn = Connect-OracleServiceCloud -Url "$Url" -User "$User" -Password "$Password"

Selecting Data

Follow the steps below to retrieve data from the Accounts table and pipe the result into to a CSV file:

Select-OracleServiceCloud -Connection $conn -Table Accounts | Select -Property * -ExcludeProperty Connection,Table,Columns | Export-Csv -Path c:\myAccountsData.csv -NoTypeInformation

You will notice that we piped the results from Select-OracleServiceCloud into a Select-Object cmdlet and excluded some properties before piping them into an Export-Csv cmdlet. We do this because the CData Cmdlets append Connection, Table, and Columns information onto each "row" in the result set, and we do not necessarily want that information in our CSV file.

The Connection, Table, and Columns are appended to the results in order to facilitate piping results from one of the CData Cmdlets directly into another one.

Deleting Data

The following line deletes any records that match the criteria:

Select-OracleServiceCloud -Connection $conn -Table Accounts -Where "DisplayOrder = 12" | Remove-OracleServiceCloud

Inserting and Updating Data

The cmdlets make data transformation easy as well as data cleansing. The following example loads data from a CSV file into Oracle Service Cloud, checking first whether a record already exists and needs to be updated instead of inserted.

Import-Csv -Path C:\MyAccountsUpdates.csv | %{
 $record = Select-OracleServiceCloud -Connection $OracleServiceCloud -Table Accounts -Where ("Id = `'"+$_.Id+"`'")
 if($record){
 Update-OracleServiceCloud -Connection $oracleservicecloud -Table Accounts -Columns ("Id","LookupName") -Values ($_.Id, $_.LookupName) -Where ("Id = `'"+$_.Id+"`'")
 }else{
 Add-OracleServiceCloud -Connection $oracleservicecloud -Table Accounts -Columns ("Id","LookupName") -Values ($_.Id, $_.LookupName)
 }
}

As always, our goal is to simplify the way you connect to data. With cmdlets users can install a data module, set the connection properties, and start building. Download Cmdlets and start working with your data in PowerShell today!