{"id":7205,"date":"2017-02-09T19:49:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/hayek\/jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2017-02-09T19:49:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:49:43","slug":"ireport-some-oracle-database-jdbc-sqlrunner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2017\/02\/09\/ireport-some-oracle-database-jdbc-sqlrunner\/","title":{"rendered":"iReport, some Oracle database, JDBC, SQLRunner, \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tYour task is to interface a rather remote Oracle database with <em>iReport<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But you are not really sure, whether you are able to successfully connect to the database at all.<\/p>\n<p>And you want to &#8220;explore&#8221; the database, its tables, its &#8220;views&#8221; \u2026<\/p>\n<p>No CLI utility like <em>sqlplus<\/em> available as well.<\/p>\n<p>I am trying\u00a0<em>SQLRunner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Says something like &#8220;<em>\u2026 cannot connect \u2026<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>I search the web for its precise error message.<\/p>\n<p>Leads me to a firewall problem, i.e. some firewall prevents me from accessing the Oracle database. Aha?!! The article (on Stackoverflow) says, I should use &#8220;<em>telnet<\/em>&#8221; in order to find out, whether I can access the port in question.<\/p>\n<p>But there is no &#8220;<em>telnet<\/em>&#8221; on that Windows PC. Please see my <em>telnet<\/em> related articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/Jochen.Hayek.name\/wp\/blog-en\/tag\/telnet\/\">http:\/\/Jochen.Hayek.name\/wp\/blog-en\/tag\/telnet\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But I have <em>putty<\/em> available, and I can make putty to react like &#8220;<em>telnet with a GUI<\/em>&#8221; \u2013 and yes, it looks like, I can&#8217;t reach the port at all. Let&#8217;s talk to the corporate network support team! But how to tell them, that using <em>telnet<\/em> I found out, I cannot reach that port? No, I can&#8217;t, because there is no <em>telnet<\/em>, and I can&#8217;t tell them of <em>putty<\/em>, because <em>putty<\/em> has not got installed properly, I &#8220;put&#8221; it there myself. What a mess! At least I know, what problem I am dealing with.<\/p>\n<p>The colleague next to me had somebody solve the firewall problem for her (last week or so). She runs\u00a0<em>SQLRunner<\/em> successfully (I showed her). She can properly look at the Oracle tables. She is happy. And I know, I have to get somebody to solve my firewall \/ network issue. And I will be happy myself &#8220;one day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Jochen.Hayek.name\/wp\/blog-en\/tag\/sqlrunner\/\">http:\/\/Jochen.Hayek.name\/wp\/blog-en\/tag\/sqlrunner\/<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0my <em>SQLRunner<\/em>\u00a0related articles\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your task is to interface a rather remote Oracle database with iReport. But you are not really sure, whether you are able to successfully connect to the database at all. And you want to &#8220;explore&#8221; the database, its tables, its &#8220;views&#8221; \u2026 No CLI utility like sqlplus available as well. I am trying\u00a0SQLRunner. 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