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Importing layers from an Oracle Spatial Database

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If the data source is a Oracle Spatial database, there are specific parameters that you can set, see Figure 3.11 for more information.

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Figure 3.11 Select Data Sources Pane for an Oracle spacial database
  1. Choose File>Add Map Data to display the Select Data Sources pane.
  2. Choose Oracle Layer in the Files of Type list.
  3. Fill in the parameters to create a connection to the database. You need a login and a password for the Host machine hosting the database. You will also need the port number and the Spatial ID of the database, that is, the "name" of the database.
  4. Select the model type of your your database. In recent oracle spatial databases, object model is the standard.
  5. Click connect.
  6. If you intend to load data on demand, enable Use Tiling, then specify the column and line count defining the tiling.
  7. Click Open to perform data loading.

Note
before using this functionality, you must install an oracle driver to be able to import Oracle layers within the Builder. For information on how to do this, refer to Importing Oracle Layers within Map Builder in the Builder help file found at <JVIEWS_INSTALL_DIR>/jviews-maps81/samples/mapbuilder/index.html.

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