Oracle ODBC hello world with powershell

Demo :

cmd /c "odbcconf.exe /a {configdsn ""Oracle in OraClient11g_home1"" ""DSN=helloworld|SERVER=DB01""}"


Create a helloworld data source connecting to your DB01 tns alias in your OraClient11g_home1 Oracle Home.

It is easy to get the Oracle Home name with

Get-itemproperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\*| Select-Object ORACLE_HOME,ORACLE_HOME_NAME

ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_HOME_KEY
----------- ---------------
C:\oracle\product\11.1.0\client_1 OraClient11g_home1
C:\oracle\product\11.2.0\client_1 OraClient11g_home2


Then we create the connection (as we did in ADO or ODP) :

$conn = New-Object Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection
$conn.ConnectionString= "dsn=helloworld;uid=scott;pwd=tiger;"
$conn.open()
(new-Object Data.Odbc.OdbcCommand("select 'Hello World' from dual",$conn)).ExecuteScalar()
$conn.close()


Note: odbcconf will be removed in future release, prefer Add-OdbcDsn