
There are following pre-requisite steps to enable report builder to connect with Oracle DB. Otherwise you will get error roughly saying that Report Builder cannot connect with Oracle DB.
#ORACLE SQL DEVELOPER QUERY BUILDER INSTALL#
Warning: In order to access Oracle DB via Report Builder you need to install Oracle Client 11g for Windows if it is not there already. Once you are able to connect with Oracle DB Server using SQL Developer you are confirmed about server connection parameters. Note: Above information you will need in below steps so make a note of what information you are filling in “Select Database Connection” window. You will get a popup window where you need to fill following information: First click on Connections then choose "New connection". Download Oracle SQL Developer, and run.Test Connection using SQL Developerįirst run SQL Developer and then follow below steps to connect with Oracle DB Server: So I hope using SP with parameters (demostarted in Part 2) I would able to make this demostartion more helpful. And it is more complex than using select query.

I have choosen SP because in enterpise applcations, it is more common scenario to get data based on various parameter passed to a Stored Procedure. Why we are using Stored Procedure: We can get data for report in Report Builder using Select query itself.

After completing the part 2 of demo application, we will able to see final report as per below screenshot: (click on the image to get more clear and full size view): In this demo we have used SQL Developer, Oracle client 11g and Report Builder 3.0. In Part 2, we will provide parameters to report, perform few formatting tasks and look into advance options available.Ĭontents of both articles are arranged as per following outlines: Finally in this part, using Report Builder we will create a report which will show data from Oracle DB. Then we will create Table and Stored Procedure in Oracle DB using SQL Developer.

In this first part we will start by working with SQL Developer and installing Oracle client 11g and Setting it up. To keep the size of article reasonable, this article is divided into two parts. This article is for beginners to Report Builder 3.0 and trying to connect with Oracle Database 11g using Oracle SQL Developer. So I thought to share some of those basic steps to work with Report Builder while fetching data from Oracle DB. When we get a chance to work with new tools, we stumble against simple steps and spent more time to achieve results. As per requirement, before getting the data we need to run a stored procedure which will get data from table based on given parameter and then we need to run populate data in Report Builder with proper formatting.
#ORACLE SQL DEVELOPER QUERY BUILDER HOW TO#
In this article series (consist of two parts), I am sharing how to create report using Report Builder by fetching data from Oracle DB.
