
For more information about driver types, see Oracle JDBC FAQ.įrom the Authentication list, select the authentication technology that you want to use. In the TNS name field, specify what service name to use (see a value of net_service_name in tnsnames.ora) if you have more than one service.įor more information about tnsnames.ora, see Local Naming Parameters in the tnsnames.ora file.įrom the Driver list, specify the driver type. In the TNSADMIN field, specify a path to the folder with tnsnames.ora. TNS: to use tnsnames.ora configuration file. Service name: to use an alias to an Oracle instance (or many instances). To use a correct value, check the environment variable ORACLE_SID on the server host, or contact your database administrator. SID: to use a unique name of an Oracle instance (a process that runs on the workstation). For more information about creating a database connection with your driver, see Add a user driver to an existing connection.įrom the Connection type list, select a connection type: You can specify your drivers for the data source if you do not want to download the provided drivers. The IDE does not include bundled drivers in order to have a smaller size of the installation package and to keep driver versions up-to-date for each IDE version. As you click this link, P圜harm downloads drivers that are required to interact with a database.

On the Data Sources tab in the Data Sources and Drivers dialog, click the Add icon ( ) and select Oracle.Īt the bottom of the data source settings area, click the Download missing driver files link.

In the Database tool window ( View | Tool Windows | Database), click the Data Source Properties icon.
