Oracle

Source and Destination Databases

Before you begin

Before you begin, gather this connection information:

• Name of the server that hosts the database you want to connect to and the Oracle service name and port

• User name and password

• Are you connecting to an SSL server? You must configure the Oracle client before you can use SSL

Connect and set up the workspace

Launch Syntho and select Connect to a database, or under Create workspace, select Oracle. For a complete list of data connections, select More under From database. Then do the following:

1. Enter the server name.

   • Note: To find the correct service name, open the tnsnames.ora file (in the ORACLE_HOME/network/admin directory by default) and search for the net_service_name section. Use the value listed for service_name.

2. Enter the database name to connect to the contained database.

3. Enter the port number.

4. Enter user name and password.

   Select the Require SSL check box when connecting to an SSL server.

5. Select Create Workspace. If Syntho can't make the connection, verify that your credentials are correct. If you still can't connect, your computer is having trouble locating the server. Contact your network administrator or database administrator.

Limitations

• There is a possibility for some Oracle DB system schemas to appear after creating workspace. This shouldn't happen if database permissions and schemas are set properly, but if it does happen then user should manually exclude schemas from synthetization. See below the list of schema that are excluded by default.

List of automatically excluded tables in Oracle

• anonymous

• appqossys

• audsys

• dbsfwuser

• dbsnmp

• dgpdb_int

• dip

• dvf

• dvsys

• ggsys

• gsmadmin_internal

• gsmcatuser

• gsmrootuser

• gsmuser

• lbacsys

• ops$oracle

• oracle_ocm

• outln

• remote_scheduler_agent

• sys

• sys$umf

• sysbackup

• sysdg

• syskm

• sysrac

• system

• xdb

• xs$null

Supported data types

The following table provides a summary of the current support and limitations for various data types when using connectors with Oracle. It indicates what's supported per generator type, and if any additional processing is performed by Syntho to successfully generate and write the data.

Data Type	Type	AI-powered Generation	Other Generators (Duplicate/Mask/Mockers/Calculated Columns/Hash)
INTEGER	discrete	☑️	☑️
SMALLINT	discrete	☑️	☑️
NUMBER	discrete	☑️	☑️
FLOAT	continuous	☑️	☑️
BINARY_FLOAT	continuous	☑️	☑️
BINARY_DOUBLE	continuous	☑️	☑️
CHAR	categorical	☑️	☑️
VARCHAR2	categorical	☑️	☑️
NCHAR	categorical	☑️	☑️
NVARCHAR2	categorical	☑️	☑️
CLOB	bytes	☐️	☑️
DATE	datetime	☑️	☑️
TIMESTAMP	datetime	☑️	☑️
TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE	datetime	☑️	☑️
TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE	datetime	☑️	☑️
INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH	datetime	☐️	☑️
INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND	datetime	☐️	☑️
RAW	bytes	☐️	☑️
BLOB	bytes	☐️	☑️
NCLOB	bytes	☐️	☑️
ROWID	no active support	☐️	☑️
UROWID	no active support	☑️	☑️
XMLTYPE	categorical	☐️	☑️