Property type

Either Built-In or Repository.

Built-In: No property data stored centrally.

Repository: Select the repository file where the
properties are stored.

Click this icon to open a database connection wizard and store the
database connection parameters you set in the component Basic settings view.

For more information about setting up and storing database connection
parameters, see
Talend Studio User
Guide.

Use an existing connection

Select this check box and in the Component
List click the relevant connection component to reuse the connection
details you already defined.

Connection type

The available drivers are:

• Oracle OCI: 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.

• Oracle Custom: Select this connection type to
  access a clustered database. With this type of connection, the Username and the Password fields
  are deactivated and you need to enter the connection URL in the URL field that is displayed.

  For further information about the valid form of this URL, see JDBC Connection strings from the Oracle documentation.

• Oracle Service Name: Select this connection type to
  use the TNS alias that you give when you connect to the remote database.

• WALLET: Select this connection type to store
  credentials in an Oracle wallet.

• Oracle SID: Select this connection type to uniquely
  identify a particular database on a system.

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.

To enter the password, click the […] button next to the
password field, and then in the pop-up dialog box enter the password between double quotes
and click OK to save the settings.

Schema and Edit
Schema

A schema is a row description. It defines the number of fields (columns) to
be processed and passed on to the next component. The schema is either Built-In or stored remotely in the Repository.

Click Edit schema to make changes to the schema.
If the current schema is of the Repository type, three
options are available:

• View schema: choose this option to view the
  schema only.

• Change to built-in property: choose this
  option to change the schema to Built-in for
  local changes.

• Update repository connection: 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 No
  upon completion and choose this schema metadata again in the [Repository Content] window.

Built-In: You create and store the
schema locally for this component only. Related topic: see
Talend Studio

User Guide.

Repository: You have already created
the schema and stored it in the Repository. You can reuse it in various projects and
Job designs. Related topic: see
Talend Studio

User Guide.

Table name

Database table name.

Query type and Query

Enter your DB query paying particularly attention to properly sequence
the fields in order to match the schema definition.

The result of the query must contain only records that match join key you need to use in
tMap. In other words, you must use the schema of the
main flow to tMap to construct the SQL statement here in
order to load only the matched records into the lookup flow.

This approach ensures that no redundant records are loaded into memory and outputted to
the component that follows.

Additional JDBC parameters

Specify additional connection properties for the database connection you are
creating. The properties are separated by semicolon and each property is a key-value
pair, for example, encryption=1;clientname=Talend.

This field is not available if the Use an existing
connection check box is selected.

Trim all the String/Char columns

Select this check box to remove leading and trailing whitespace from
all the String/Char columns.

Trim column

Remove leading and trailing whitespace from defined columns.

Connection pool

In this area, you configure, for each Spark executor, the connection pool used to control
the number of connections that stay open simultaneously. The default values given to the
following connection pool parameters are good enough for most use cases.

• Max total number of connections: enter the maximum number
  of connections (idle or active) that are allowed to stay open simultaneously.

  The default number is 8. If you enter -1, you allow unlimited number of open connections at the same
  time.

• Max waiting time (ms): enter the maximum amount of time
  at the end of which the response to a demand for using a connection should be returned by
  the connection pool. By default, it is -1, that is to say, infinite.

• Min number of idle connections: enter the minimum number
  of idle connections (connections not used) maintained in the connection pool.

• Max number of idle connections: enter the maximum number
  of idle connections (connections not used) maintained in the connection pool.

Evict connections

Select this check box to define criteria to destroy connections in the connection pool. The
following fields are displayed once you have selected it.

• Time between two eviction runs: enter the time interval
  (in milliseconds) at the end of which the component checks the status of the connections and
  destroys the idle ones.

• Min idle time for a connection to be eligible to
  eviction: enter the time interval (in milliseconds) at the end of which the idle
  connections are destroyed.

• Soft min idle time for a connection to be eligible to
  eviction: this parameter works the same way as Min idle
  time for a connection to be eligible to eviction but it keeps the minimum number
  of idle connections, the number you define in the Min number of idle
  connections field.

Usage rule

This component is used as a start component and requires an output link.

This component should use a tOracleConfiguration
component present in the same Job to connect to Oracle. You need to select the Use an existing connection check box and then select the
tOracleConfiguration component to be used.

This component, along with the Spark Streaming component Palette it belongs to, appears
only when you are creating a Spark Streaming Job.

Note that in this documentation, unless otherwise explicitly stated, a scenario presents
only Standard Jobs, that is to say traditional
Talend
data
integration Jobs.

Spark Connection

This connection is effective on a per-Job basis.