I'm struggling a bit with how to connect R to ServiceNow ODBC.
The closest solution I found is https://www.cdata.com/kb/tech/servicenow-odbc-r.rst, but it's using some paid software dependencies to make it work, which I think unnecessary.
If someone else has managed to set up a connection between R and ServiceNow, I would like to learn how.
ServiceNow provides its own ODBC driver. Once installed, you can connect to the ServiceNow instance using DBI library.
library(DBI)
con <- dbConnect(odbc::odbc(), .connection_string = "Driver={ServiceNow ODBC Driver 64-bit};", timeout = 10)
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Can anyone provide the connection string for connecting to Snowflake through RODBC:: odbcconnect in R?
Thanks in advance!
I'm moving from Teradata to Snowflake. And I have a lot of functions in my code which works only with an RODBC connection, but I'm only finding DBI connections to Snowflake on the internet.
Based on your question I assume that you have already installed the Snowflake ODBC driver and created a DSN following the Snowflake documentation appropriate for your OS and you have installed RODBC package working with other ODBC DSNs in your system.
Then you can connect to Snowflake as follows:
library(RODBC)
ch <- odbcConnect("DSN_NAME", uid = "USERNAME", pwd = "PASSWORD")
#test query to test the connection by printing the current timestamp
sqlQuery(ch, paste('SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP()'))
I'm struggling to connect my shiny application to one of the database we use in our company. I've succesfully connected to Azure / Mongo / SQL Server databases but now I've got a SAP SQL Anywhere 17 database to connect to.
Not surprisingly there's no specific connection to that database provided in the R Drivers (https://www.rstudio.com/products/drivers/).
Now I can solve this in two ways I believe, our IT department is convinced that a generic ODBC connection should work, or I have to get the specific SQL Anywhere drivers installed on my shiny app somehow.
For both solutions I can't find much online. If I search for generic ODBC connection the recommendations go to FreeTDS which is in the RODBC package, which then might not work together with Pool (according to what I've read).
Searching how to install specific drivers on a shiny application is also not bringing me much.
Try using
options(java.parameters="-Xmx8g")
library(RJDBC)
drv <- JDBC("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver", "drivers/jdbc/mssql-jdbc-8.4.1.jre8.jar", identifier.quote="`")
processingStart = Sys.time()
conn <- dbConnect(drv,
"jdbc:sqlserver://SERVER_NAME;databaseName=DATABASE_NAME",
user = "USER_NAME",
"PASSWORD"
)
I am trying to make a connection from R to Oracle and I am having issues doing so.
Here is the connection script I am using with the DBI and odbc packages:
library(DBI)
library(odbc)
con <- DBI::dbConnect(odbc::odbc(),
Driver = "Oracle in OraClient11g_home1",
Server = "orasade06.hc-sc.gc.ca",
SID = "sdv11040",
Schema = "STG",
Username = "username",
Password = "pw",
Port = 1521)
I am able to make a successful connection through Oracle SQL Developer to view my database and schema.
I have installed the Oracle ODBC driver (Oracle in OraClient11g_home1) on my machine, however I cannot make a successful connection from "R".
Here is the error I get:
Error: nanodbc/nanodbc.cpp:983: IM002: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified
Any help and guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
I have written a tutorial around this, maybe take a look :
https://guillaumepressiat.github.io/blog/2019/11/oraclyr
Some key points :
If your Oracle client is 32-bit, using R 32-bit is a (or the) solution. Otherwise R and odbc error messages aren't crystal-clear
In RStudio see if an Oracle client appears in Connections Pane
It's easier on linux but strings and parameters for odbc are a little different.
Lastly, for connection string, this answer is interesting : how to make a connection string for oracle that includes hostname, instance name, user id, password using system.data.oracleclient?
H, I'm quite a newbie on this.
I have a Unix machine with R/RStudio and Python installed.
I need to connect to an Oracle DB in a secure way.
I have created a wallet with mkstore given by Oracle and with Python and cx_Oracle library I have no problems in connecting to this DB, but how can I afford the same result with R?
There's an example in the ROracle doc:
## Create connection authenticated with external credentials.
con <- dbConnect(drv, username ="", password="", external_credentials = TRUE)
You'll probably need to pass dbname too.
This is a follow up question to this thread.
Writing data from an R data-set into Redshift
How do I set up the ODBC connection in R? In other words, where I enter the details such as
driver, url and port?
Following the referenced question, if you are on Windows, you create a user DSN or system DSN ODBC connection in the ODBC data source administrator (search for ODBC in the search box of the start button). Then you use this name on the second line of the following code. Where it says "mydsn".
library(RODBC)
myconn <-odbcConnect("mydsn", uid="Rob", pwd="aardvark")
crimedat <- sqlFetch(myconn, "Crime")
pundat <- sqlQuery(myconn, "select * from Punishment")
close(myconn)
If you haven't got the Amazon Redshift ODBC drivers installed, you will have to install them first. I found a link here.