Can Microsoft Reporting Services retrieve data from Oracle?
The very, very short answer is: "Yes." The fairly short answer is "Yes, Oracle and reporting services can talk to each other in two ways, both of which are efficient and robust." The longer answer is as follows:
The first method is a fast "Native OLE" method that relies on a component in oracle and a component in reporting services.
In particular, version 7.3.3 and later of Oracle include the "Oracle Client and Networking Components" Reporting Services installation
is a database connectivity component named "Microsoft OLE DB for Oracle."
These two features talk together to provide very fast access to Oracle, from reporting services (or any Microsoft technology) via OLE DB.
A second method also exists, namely ODBC. In this scenario an ODBC data source is defined that connects to oracle. Reporting Services then connects to the ODBC data source.
This is slightly less performant and requires more configuration effort, so it is not the preferred method.
But it is a very stable fall back position.
I've previously provided a list of favourite reporting services links.
'm.e.' on Mon, 28 Feb 2005 05:03:00 GMT, sez: I think you should also be able to use managed providers:
.NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4F55D429-17DC-45EA-BFB3-076D1C052524&displaylang=en) or
Oracle Data Provider for .NET (http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/windows/odpnet/index.html), but have not tested this.
'prasad' on Fri, 01 Apr 2005 03:58:26 GMT, sez: asdasd
'kanthi' on Fri, 09 Sep 2005 05:42:46 GMT, sez: how to retrieve data from oracle to vb
'f0vela' on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:46:38 GMT, sez: It's Possible.. right now i'm in the middle of a project that uses an Oracle 9i database and i'm using reporting services to create reports.
It's possible but maybe you'll find some things you can and can't do with them and some Data Providers that don't work all the time.
'Miguel' on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:19:54 GMT, sez: f0vela, can you send me a .rdl demo with the store procedure on oracle?.
Thank
(mgrandez@hotmail.com)
'Juan Manuel Z' on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:59:57 GMT, sez: Hi,
http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/3524781
it works!
(juanmanuelz@gmail.com)
'freeze' on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:09:08 GMT, sez: what about oracle 10g?
the error is missing expression(microsoft OLE DB provider for Oracle)
'Nilesh' on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:54:43 GMT, sez: This is not be a comment but a way i found to ask a quick question
I have been working with Data Processing extension which connects to a Oracle Database. But when I try to grab the SQL created by the Report server I get nothing
just a blank "" commandtext.
But when I connect to SQL Server database I am able to get the generated SQL.
Anybody has any Idea why cant I get the SQL in the DPE when it connects to oracle database?
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