Automate Oracle Service Cloud Integration Tasks from PowerShell

The CData Cmdlets for Oracle Service Cloud are standard PowerShell cmdlets that make it easy to accomplish data cleansing, normalization, backup, and other integration tasks by enabling real-time and bidirectional access to Oracle Service Cloud.

PowerShell Cmdlets or ADO.NET Provider?

The Cmdlets are not only a PowerShell interface to Oracle Service Cloud, but also an SQL interface; this tutorial shows how to use both to create, retrieve, update, and delete Oracle Service Cloud data. We also show examples of the ADO.NET equivalent, which is possible with the CData ADO.NET Provider for Oracle Service Cloud. To access Oracle Service Cloud data from other .NET applications, like LINQPad, use the CData ADO.NET Provider for Oracle Service Cloud.

Once you have acquired the necessary connection properties, accessing Oracle Service Cloud data in PowerShell can be enabled in three steps.

Using Basic Authentication

You must set the following to authenticate to Oracle Service Cloud:

• Url: The Url of the account to connect to.
• User: The username of the authenticating account.
• Password: The password of the authenticating account.

PowerShell

1. Install the module:

   Install-Module OracleServiceCloudCmdlets

2. Connect:

   $oracleservicecloud = Connect-OracleServiceCloud -Url "$Url" -User "$User" -Password "$Password"

3. Search for and retrieve data:

   $displayorder = "12" $accounts = Select-OracleServiceCloud -Connection $oracleservicecloud -Table "Accounts" -Where "DisplayOrder = `'$DisplayOrder`'" $accounts

   You can also use the Invoke-OracleServiceCloud cmdlet to execute SQL commands:

   $accounts = Invoke-OracleServiceCloud -Connection $oracleservicecloud -Query 'SELECT * FROM Accounts WHERE DisplayOrder = @DisplayOrder' -Params @{'@DisplayOrder'='12'}

ADO.NET

1. Load the provider's assembly:

   [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Program Files\CData\CData ADO.NET Provider for Oracle Service Cloud\lib\System.Data.CData.OracleServiceCloud.dll")

2. Connect to Oracle Service Cloud:

   $conn= New-Object System.Data.CData.OracleServiceCloud.OracleServiceCloudConnection("Url=https://abc.rightnowdemo.com;User=user;Password=password;") $conn.Open()

3. Instantiate the OracleServiceCloudDataAdapter, execute an SQL query, and output the results:

   $sql="SELECT Id, LookupName from Accounts" $da= New-Object System.Data.CData.OracleServiceCloud.OracleServiceCloudDataAdapter($sql, $conn) $dt= New-Object System.Data.DataTable $da.Fill($dt) $dt.Rows | foreach { Write-Host $_.id $_.lookupname }

Update Oracle Service Cloud Data

PowerShell

ADO.NET

Insert Oracle Service Cloud Data

PowerShell

ADO.NET

Delete Oracle Service Cloud Data

PowerShell

ADO.NET