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The Oracle HCM Cloud ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live data from Oracle HCM Cloud, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access Oracle HCM Cloud data like you would a database - read, write, and update Oracle HCM Cloud 0, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.

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Replicate Oracle HCM Cloud Data from PowerShell


Write a quick PowerShell script to query Oracle HCM Cloud data. Use connectivity to the live data to replicate Oracle HCM Cloud data to SQL Server.



The CData ODBC Driver for Oracle HCM Cloud enables out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft's built-in support for ODBC. The ODBC driver instantly integrates connectivity to the real Oracle HCM Cloud data with PowerShell.

You can use the .NET Framework Provider for ODBC built into PowerShell to quickly automate integration tasks like replicating Oracle HCM Cloud data to other databases. This article shows how to replicate Oracle HCM Cloud data to SQL Server in 5 lines of code.

You can also write PowerShell code to download Oracle HCM Cloud data. See the examples below.

Create an ODBC Data Source for Oracle HCM Cloud

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

Using Basic Authentication

You must set the following to authenticate to Oracle HCM Cloud:

  • Url: The Url of your account.
  • User: The user of your account.
  • Password: The password of your account.

Connect to Oracle HCM Cloud

The code below shows how to use the DSN to initialize the connection to Oracle HCM Cloud data in PowerShell:

$conn = New-Object System.Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection $conn.ConnectionString = "DSN=CData OracleHCM Source x64"

Back Up Oracle HCM Cloud Data to SQL Server

After you enable caching, you can use the code below to replicate data to SQL Server.

Set the following connection properties to configure the caching database:

  • CacheProvider: The name of the ADO.NET provider. This can be found in the Machine.config for your version of .NET. For example, to configure SQL Server, enter System.Data.SqlClient.

  • CacheConnection: The connection string of properties required to connect to the database. Below is an example for SQL Server:

    Server=localhost;Database=RSB;User Id=sqltest;Password=sqltest;

The SQL query in the example can be used to refresh the entire cached table, including its schema. Any already existing cache is deleted.

$conn.Open() # Create and execute the SQL Query $SQL = "CACHE DROP EXISTING SELECT * FROM " + $RecruitingCESites $cmd = New-Object System.Data.Odbc.OdbcCommand($sql,$conn) $count = $cmd.ExecuteNonQuery() $conn.Close()

The driver gives you complete control over the caching functionality. See the help documentation for more caching commands and usage examples. See the help documentation for steps to replicate to other databases.

Other Operations

To retrieve Oracle HCM Cloud data in PowerShell, call the Fill method of the OdbcDataAdapter method. To execute data manipulation commands, initialize the OdbcCommand object and then call ExecuteNonQuery. Below are some more examples commands to Oracle HCM Cloud through the .NET Framework Provider for ODBC:

Retrieve Oracle HCM Cloud Data

$sql="SELECT SiteId, SiteName from RecruitingCESites" $da= New-Object System.Data.Odbc.OdbcDataAdapter($sql, $conn) $dt= New-Object System.Data.DataTable $da.Fill($dt) $dt.Rows | foreach { $dt.Columns | foreach ($col in dt{ Write-Host $1[$_] } }