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A database URL is used to specify a database instance to connect to, and is used in the phixflow-datasource.xml file. It includes the type of database, the host it is running on, and (generally) a database instance on the host.
These are the URL formats for the database platforms that PhixFlow currently supports.
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Oracle |
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Oracle (> 12c with PDB containers) |
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Microsoft SQL Server |
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MariaDB | jdbc: |
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mariadb://hostname/phixflow |
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Where:
hostname | The name of the host which supports the database. If the database is on the same host as the Tomcat web server, user localhost |
phixflow | The name of the database. |
Oracle specific considerations
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1For Oracle 12c and above, if you are using PDB (pluggable database) containers, you should use a '/' instead of ':' before [SID], so that [SID] is treated as a SERVICE name rather than an SID. |
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an option to add the |
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Oracle configuration file. This allows you to treat SID's as service names by default. This is provided by Oracle as a workaround for users who have hard-coded connection strings that are difficult to change by hand, and so should not be necessary for |
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PhixFlow configuration. For more information, |
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see the following Oracle documentation links: Introduction to the Multitenant Architecture (including an explanation of PDB's) |
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PhixFlow does not support Oracle's MySQL. If you choose to use it anyway, the database URL would be |