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Oracle To SQL Server Connectivity

The document describes the heterogeneous connectivity between an Oracle 9i database and a SQL Server 2000 database used in an insurance application. The Oracle database contains the Policy Reassurance Administration (PRA) system which extracts policy data from the SQL Server database containing the core policy administration system called Lissia. Key features of the heterogeneous connectivity allow the PRA system to directly access and calculate premiums on the Lissia data, eliminating a previous manual extraction step. Technical details are provided on setting up the heterogeneous connectivity using an ODBC driver, system DSN, and database links.

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Oracle To SQL Server Connectivity

The document describes the heterogeneous connectivity between an Oracle 9i database and a SQL Server 2000 database used in an insurance application. The Oracle database contains the Policy Reassurance Administration (PRA) system which extracts policy data from the SQL Server database containing the core policy administration system called Lissia. Key features of the heterogeneous connectivity allow the PRA system to directly access and calculate premiums on the Lissia data, eliminating a previous manual extraction step. Technical details are provided on setting up the heterogeneous connectivity using an ODBC driver, system DSN, and database links.

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1 Document Purpose & Scope.......................................................................................................1 2 Stakeholders of the Document.....................................................................................................1 Overview/Business Usage of Connectivity.....................................................................................1 3 Technologies Used......................................................................................................................1 4 Advantage of Heterogeneous Connectivity..................................................................................

2 5 Heterogenous Database connectivity Technical discription......................................................2 6 Pre-requisites/Dependencies ......................................................................................................5 7 Features of the Hetereogeneous Connectivity.............................................................................6

Document Purpose & Scope


This document covers the business/application usage, technical overview, key activities of Heterogeneous connectivity . This document has been covered the technical details for Oracle 9i and Sql Server 2000 connectivity.

2 Stakeholders of the Document


This document will be distributed to the following people : Application Support Team, WIPRO AVIVA Project file

Overview/Business Usage of Connectivity


PRA (Policy Reassurance Administration system) is used for identifying the policies to be reinsured and calculating premiums of those policies. Lissia (Core policy administration software) is a packaged policy administration system. It keeps the data of all the policy holders (like client details, policy details, premium amount, policy status etc) of AVIVA. It also helps to calculate the commissions of the agents. The policies to be reinsured are extracted from Lissia system based on some business rules defined in PRA. (Reinsurance is done to distribute the risk of the policies). The business rules are dependent upon several factors like age of nominee, sum assured, and sum at rest etc. Lissia database is on SQL Server 2000 and PRA is on Oracle 9i. Heterogeneous connectivity connects Sql Server 2000 to Oracle 9i database of extracting/transferring/inserting/updating data.

Technologies Used
Following technologies used for getting used in the PRA application: Front End: Visual Basic 6.0 Back-End: Oracle 9i Crystal report is used for generating reports

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Database Details PRA Database: Oracle 9i Lissia Database: SQL Server 2000

Advantage of Heterogeneous Connectivity

The following activities or processes are done in the PRA application: 1. Extraction and Flagging : In this step, the policies to be reinsured are extracted from Lissia. Flagging is done (based on the pre-defined business rules in PRA) to check that whether the client needs the re-insurance or not. Time taken to complete the activity : 8 10 hours 2. Premium Calculation: In this step the premium (to be paid to the re-insurer) of all the flagged policies is calculated. Time taken to complete the activity : 4 6 hours (depend on records) Earilar we are doing the manual extraction activity from Lissia ( Sql Server database ) to PRA ( Oracle database) and now by the heterogeneous connectivity between Sql server and Oracle we can directly doing the calculation part by logging in PRA (Oracle) and accessing the data of Lissia (Sql server) The heterogeneous connectivity is completely excluded the manually extraction/flagging part.

Heterogenous Database connectivity Technical discription

Accessing Non Oracle System through Oracle 9i system using Generic Connectivity

In this Configuration: -

(1) A client connects to the Oracle database server through Oracle Net. (2) The Heterogeneous Services component of the Oracle database server connects through Oracle Net to the Heterogeneous Services ODBC agent. (3) The agent communicates with the following non-Oracle components: An ODBC driver manager An ODBC driver NonOracle system client

Scenario
In our scenario oracle database name is REINS, Sql Server database name LISSIA, Agent service name is HSSQL and system DSN name is NORTH. Steps involved:

(1) Create a system dsn (NORTH) points to the sql server database (LISSIA).

From the Start menu, choose Settings > Control Panel and select the ODBC icon. Select the system DSN tab to display the system data sources.

Click Add. From the list of installed ODBC drivers, select the name of the driver that the data source will use. For example, select SQL Server. Click Finish.

(2)Create Heterogeneous service initialization file on oracle HS_FDS_CONNECT_INFO = north HS_FDS_TRACE_LEVEL = ON HS_FDS_TRACE_FILE_NAME = hssql.log

(3) Alter the Listener.ora file -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------LISTENER = (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = GURUAT04)(PORT = 1521)) ) SID_LIST_LISTENER = (SID_LIST = (SID_DESC = (GLOBAL_DBNAME = reins) (ORACLE_HOME = E:\oracle\ora92) (SID_NAME = reins) ) (SID_DESC = (GLOBAL_DBNAME = hssql) (ORACLE_HOME = E:\oracle\ora92) (SID_NAME = hssql) (Program= hsodbc) ) ) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(4) Alter the Tnsnames.ora -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------REINS.AVIVAINDIA.COM =

(DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = GURUAT04)(PORT = 1521)) ) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVER = DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME = reins) ) ) HSSQL.AVIVAINDIA.COM = (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = guruat04)(PORT = 1521)) ) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVICE_NAME = hssql) ) (HS = OK) ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(5) Restart the listener.


Lsnrctl>Restart.

(6) Create a database link with in an oracle database. Create database link samy Connect to SA identified by password Using HSSQL; (7) Select Sql Server data in the oracle environment. Select * from employees@samy

6 Pre-requisites/Dependencies
Before running heterogeneous connectivity ensures that below given prerequisites are met: a. Both the databases should be up and running b. The access privileges will be equal to the sql sever user privileges which you are using in the system DSN.

Features of the Hetereogeneous Connectivity


Select the Sql Server data from oracle database Insert/Update/delete the bulk data Rollback the transaction Sql Server and Oracle tables can be joined with the use of Join statements.

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