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Adagio's avatar
Adagio
Frequent Contributor
7 years ago

Schema in the Connection string to connect to Oracle DB

Hi,

 

I have a connection string that I use to connect to oracle DB.

I'm not sure if schema name can also be passed in the connection string. I tried and it didn't work.

Is there any other way to do this or any different parameter name I should be using other than 'Current Schema' ?

 

 

   conn.ConnectionString = 
                          "Driver={DriveName};"+
                          "Data Source = XXX;" +   
                          "CurrentSchema  = XXXXX;" +                       
                          "User ID  = XXX;" +
                          "Password = XX" ;

 

Any help would be appreciated!

 

Thank you

Abhi

  • cunderw's avatar
    cunderw
    Community Hero
    7 years ago

    Unless I am mistaken, schema is set per user at the database level, not by your connection so this isn't something you can do when connecting. 

    • Adagio's avatar
      Adagio
      Frequent Contributor
      7 years ago

      Hi cunderw, I agree with that, but here I have some generic Id that has access to 15 different schemas. Unless there's a way to pass a parameter that tells which schema.table to query on, It's difficult to go to the actual schema.table. 

       

      I've used a different way to do this. Instead of passing the schema name in the connection string, I've parameterized schemaname in    'schemaname.table' in the sql queries. that works without any problems but I don't like it very much.

       

      However,  for DB2, I can pass the schema names  in the connection string itself.

       

      Thank you

      Abhi