Connect Bamboo to an Oracle database

Install Oracle

If you don't already have an operational Oracle server, download and install it now. See the Oracle documentation for instructions. 

When setting up your Oracle server:

• Character encoding must be set to AL32UTF8 (this is the Oracle equivalent of Unicode UTF-8).
• Collation should be set to BINARY.

Configuring Oracle

1. Ensure that you have a database instance available for Bamboo (either create a new one or use an existing one).

2. Within that database instance, create a user which Bamboo will connect as (e.g. bamboo-user). Remember this database user name, as it will be used to configure Bamboo's connection to this database.
   When you create a user in Oracle, Oracle will create a 'schema' automatically.

   create user bamboo-user identified by password;
   

3. Ensure that the user has the following permissions:

   grant connect, resource, create table to bamboo-user;
   

Connecting using JDBC

1. Run the Setup Wizard and choose the Custom Installation method.
2. At the 'Choose a Database Configuration' step, choose External Database > Oracle.

3. Select Direct JDBC connection and complete the form:
   
   Driver Class Name
   Type: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
   
   Database URL
   Type the URL where Bamboo will access your database, e.g. jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:SID. For syntax, please see the Oracle documentation.
   
   Username
   Type the username that Bamboo will use to access your database.
   
   Password
   Type the password that Bamboo will use to access your database.
   
   

4. Select Overwrite existing data if you wish Bamboo to overwrite any tables that already exist in the database.
5. Click Continue.

Screenshot: Setup JDBC Connection (Oracle)

Connecting using a datasource

1. Configure a datasource in your application server (consult your application server documentation for details). For the syntax of the JDBC URL to use, please see the Oracle documentation.
2. Run the Setup Wizard and choose the Custom Installation method.
3. At the 'Choose a Database Configuration' step, choose External Database > Oracle.
4. Select Connect using a datasource (configured in the application server). 
5. In the JNDI name field, type the JNDI name of your datasource, as configured in your application server.
   If java:comp/env/jdbc/DataSourceName doesn't work, try jdbc/DataSourceName (and vice versa).
6. Select Overwrite existing data if you wish Bamboo to overwrite any tables that already exist in the database.
7. Click Continue.

Screenshot Setup Datasource Connection