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marisas0003
June 25, 2021
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Oracle DBlink

  • June 25, 2021
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Is it possible to use the Oracle DBlink with appian DB?

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    csteward
    June 25, 2021

    With our on-premise Appian install w/MSSQL back end, we have a DB link with an Oracle database.  Appian doesn't really have anything to do with linking at the DB level. 

    If I recall, the only issue we faced was having to utilize OPENQUERY as:

    SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY(LINKED_SERVER, 'SELECT * FROM YOUR_TABLE')

    The issue was that essentially which LINKED_SERVER you are accessing has to be hard coded in the view.  So, if you link dev/test/prod Oracle DBs from your dev/test/prod Appian instances, the VIEW code must be different in each server (annoying).

    We tested some stored procedure configurations, etc, but could not avoid that if I recall.

    stefanhelzle0001
    Brainy
    June 25, 2021

    The DB layer of Appian supports only tables and views. Anything else is ignored. So as Chris mentioned you might need to wrap this into a view.