# tOracleInput properties for Apache Spark Batch

These properties are used to configure tOracleInput running in the Spark Batch Job framework.

The Spark Batch tOracleInput component belongs to the Databases family.

This component also allows you to connect and read data from a RDS Oracle database.

The component in this framework is available in all Talend products with Big Data and Talend Data Fabric.

## Basic settings

| Property type | Either Built-In or Repository.<br><br><br>Built-In: No property data stored centrally.<br><br><br>Repository: Select the repository file where the<br>properties are stored. |
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| ![](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/7.3/Resources/images/Save_Icon.png) | Click this icon to open a database connection wizard and store the<br>database connection parameters you set in the component Basic settings view.<br><br>For more information about setting up and storing database connection<br>parameters, see *Talend Studio User<br>Guide*. |
| Use an existing connection | Select this check box and in the Component<br>List drop-down list, select the desired connection component to<br>reuse the connection details you already defined.<br><br>Information noteNote: When a Job contains the parent Job and the child Job, if you<br>need to share an existing connection between the two levels, for example, to share the<br>connection created by the parent Job with the child Job, you have to:<br><br><ol> <li> <p>In the parent level, register the database connection            to be shared in the <span>Basic              settings</span> view of the connection component which creates that very database            connection.</p> </li> <li> <p>In the child level, use a dedicated connection            component to read that registered database connection.</p> </li> </ol><br><br>For an example about how to share a database connection<br>across Job levels, see *Talend Studio<br>User Guide*. |
| Connection type | The available drivers are:<br><br><ul> <li> <p> <span>Oracle OCI</span>: Select this connection type                    to use Oracle Call Interface with a set of C-language software APIs that provide                    an interface to the Oracle database.</p> </li> <li> <p> <span>Oracle Custom</span>: Select this connection                    type to access a clustered database. With this type of connection, the                        <span>Username</span> and the <span>Password</span> fields are deactivated and you need to                    enter the connection URL in the <span>URL</span> field                    that is displayed.</p> <p>For further information about the valid form of this URL, see <a href="http://www.dba-resources.com/oracle/jdbc-connection-strings-for-oracle-thin-driver/" target="_blank">JDBC Connection                        strings</a> from the Oracle documentation.</p> </li> <li> <p> <span>Oracle Service Name</span>: Select this                    connection type to use the TNS alias that you give when you connect to the                    remote database. </p> </li> <li> <p> <span>WALLET</span>: Select this connection type to                    store credentials in an Oracle wallet.</p> </li> <li> <p> <span>Oracle SID</span>: Select this connection type                    to uniquely identify a particular database on a system.</p> </li> </ul> |
| DB Version | Select the Oracle version in use. |
| Host | Database server IP address. |
| Port | Listening port number of DB server. |
| Database | Name of the database. |
| Oracle schema | Oracle schema name. |
| Username and Password | DB user authentication data.<br><br>To enter the password, click the [...] button next to the<br>password field, and then in the pop-up dialog box enter the password between double quotes<br>and click OK to save the settings. |
| Schema and Edit<br>Schema | A schema is a row description, it defines the number of fields to be<br>processed and passed on to the next component. The schema is either<br>Built-in or stored remotely in the<br>Repository.<br><br>Click Edit<br>schema to make changes to the schema. If the current schema is of the Repository type, three options are available:<br><br><ul> <li> <p> <span>View schema</span>: choose this                option to view the schema only.</p> </li> <li> <p> <span>Change to built-in property</span>:                choose this option to change the schema to <span>Built-in</span> for local changes.</p> </li> <li> <p> <span>Update repository connection</span>:                choose this option to change the schema stored in the repository and decide whether                to propagate the changes to all the Jobs upon completion. If you just want to                propagate the changes to the current Job, you can select <span>No</span> upon completion and choose this schema metadata                again in the <span>Repository Content</span>                window.</p> </li> </ul> |
|  | Built-In: You create and store the schema locally for this component<br>only. |
|  | Repository: You have already created the schema and stored it in the<br>Repository. You can reuse it in various projects and Job designs. |
| Table Name | Type in the name of the table from which you need to read data. |
| Query type and Query | Specify the database query statement paying particularly attention to the properly sequence of the fields which must correspond to the schema definition.<br><br>If you are using Spark V2.0 onwards, the Spark SQL does not recognize the prefix of a database table anymore. This means that you must enter only the table name without adding any prefix that indicates for example the schema this table belongs to.<br><br>For example, if you need to perform a query in a table *system.mytable*, in which the *system* prefix indicates the schema that the *mytable* table belongs to, in the query, you must enter *mytable* only. |

## Advanced settings

| Additional JDBC parameters | Specify additional connection properties for the database connection you are<br>creating. The properties are separated by semicolon and each property is a key-value<br>pair, for example, *encryption=1;clientname=Talend*.<br><br>This field is not available if the Use an existing<br>connection check box is selected. |
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| Spark SQL JDBC parameters | Add the JDBC properties supported by Spark SQL to this table. For a list of the user configurable properties, see [JDBC to other database](https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html#jdbc-to-other-databases).<br><br>This component automatically set the *url*, *dbtable* and *driver* properties by using the configuration from the Basic settings tab. |
| Trim all the String/Char columns | Select this check box to remove leading and trailing whitespace from<br>all the String/Char columns. |
| Trim column | Remove leading and trailing whitespace from defined columns. |
| Enable partitioning | Select this check box to read data in partitions.<br><br>Define, in double quotation marks, the following parameters to configure the<br>partitioning:<br><br><ul> <li> <p> <span>Partition column</span>: the numeric column                     used as partition key.</p> </li> <li> <p> <span>Lower bound of the partition stride</span>                     and <span>Upper bound of the partition                        stride</span>: enter the upper bounds and the lower bound to determine                     the partition stride. These bounds do not filter the table rows. All rows in                     the table are partitioned and returned.</p> </li> <li> <p> <span>Number of partitions</span>: the number of                     partitions into which the table rows are split. Each Spark worker handles only                     one of the partitions at a time.</p> </li> </ul><br><br><br>The average size of the partitions is the result of the difference between the<br>upper bound and the lower bound divided by the number of partitions, that is to say,<br>(upperBound - lowerBound)/partitionNumber, while the first and the last partitions also<br>include all the other rows that are not contained in the other partitions.<br><br>For example, to partition 1000 rows into 4 partitions, if you enter 0 for<br>the lower bound and 1000 for the upper bound, each partition will contain 250 rows<br>and so the partitioning is even. If you enter 250 for the lower bound and 750 for<br>the upper bound, the second and the third partition will each contain 125 rows and<br>the first and the last partitions each 375 rows. With this configuration, the<br>partitioning is skewed. |

## Usage

| **Usage rule** | This component is used as a start component and requires an<br>output link.<br><br>This component should use a tOracleConfiguration component present in the same Job to connect to<br>Oracle. You need to select the Use an existing<br>connection check box and then select the tOracleConfiguration component to be used.<br><br>This component, along with the Spark Batch component Palette it belongs to,<br>appears only when you are creating a Spark Batch Job.<br><br>Note that in this documentation, unless otherwise explicitly stated, a<br>scenario presents only Standard Jobs, that is to<br>say traditional<br>Talend<br>data integration Jobs. |
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| Spark Connection | In the Spark<br>Configuration tab in the Run<br>view, define the connection to a given Spark cluster for the whole Job. In<br>addition, since the Job expects its dependent jar files for execution, you must<br>specify the directory in the file system to which these jar files are<br>transferred so that Spark can access these files:<br><br><ul> <li> <div> <span>Yarn mode</span> (Yarn client or Yarn cluster):<ul> <li> <p>When using Google Dataproc, specify a bucket in the                                            <span>Google Storage staging bucket</span>                                        field in the <span>Spark configuration</span>                                        tab.</p> </li> <li> <p>When using HDInsight, specify the blob to be used for Job                                        deployment in the <span>Windows Azure Storage                                            configuration</span> area in the <span>Spark                                            configuration</span> tab.</p> </li> <li>When using Altus, specify the S3 bucket or the Azure                                    Data Lake Storage for Job deployment in the <span>Spark                                        configuration</span> tab.</li> <li>When using Qubole, add a                                        <span>tS3Configuration</span> to your Job to write                                    your actual business data in the S3 system with Qubole. Without                                        <span>tS3Configuration</span>, this business data is                                    written in the Qubole HDFS system and destroyed once you shut                                    down your cluster.</li> <li> <p>When using on-premises distributions, use the configuration component                                        corresponding to the file system your cluster is using.                                        Typically, this system is HDFS and so use <a href="https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/7.3/components/hdfs/thdfsconfiguration">tHDFSConfiguration</a>.</p> </li> </ul> </div> </li> <li> <p> <span>Standalone mode</span>: use the                            configuration component corresponding to the file system your cluster is                            using, such as <a href="https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/7.3/components/hdfs/thdfsconfiguration-properties-for-apache-spark-batch">tHDFSConfiguration Apache Spark Batch</a> or <a href="https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/7.3/components/amazon-s3/ts3configuration-properties-for-apache-spark-batch">tS3Configuration Apache Spark Batch</a>.</p> <p>If you are using Databricks without any configuration component present                            in your Job, your business data is written directly in DBFS (Databricks                            Filesystem).</p> </li> </ul><br><br>This connection is effective on a per-Job basis. |