Oracle Table Update

Provides an efficient way for executing bulk insert/update on a database without having to hand-write INSERT or UPDATE statements.

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Revision History

1.0.0.0 Initial Release
1.0.0.1 Bug fixes

Properties

Connection

Type: Connection Input

DataSource
Type: String
Typically specified in the form server:port/servicename.

Username
Type: String
The username to be used for the connection.

Password
Type: Password
The password to be used for the connection.

TableXml

Type: Xml Input
An XML representation of the data to be updated or inserted (see Remarks).

KeyFields

Type: String Input
A comma-separated list of fields that represent key fields for the update or insert operation. These values will be matched in the target table to determine whether the row already exists. The key fields listed in this property must be supplied in the TableXml property. It is not necessary to supply key fields if AllowUpdate is false.

AllowInsert

Type: Boolean Input
Indicates whether inserts are allowed into the target table.

AllowUpdate

Type: Boolean Input
Indicates whether updates are allowed into the target table (requires at least one field to be specified in KeyFields).

RowsAffected

Type: Int32 Output
Returns the number of rows affected by the insert/update operation.

Remarks

The XML supplied should contain the following paths root\tablename\columnname. The name of the root node is not important. The second tier should contain the table name and only a single table can be updated per call. The third tier should contain the column name.

Here's an example of a payload that will add or insert two rows into a table called inventory :

<root>
	<inventory>
		<code>123</code>
		<description>first inventory item</description>
	</inventory>
	<inventory>
		<code>456</code>
		<description>second inventory item</description>
	</inventory>
</root>

When AllowUpdate is true, the fields specified in KeyFields will be matched from TableXml to the target table. All KeyFields supplied must exist in both TableXml and the target table. Multiple key fields should be separated with commas. Note that the specified KeyFields do not have to be the database primary key fields but should indicate the key fields for purposes of the update operation.

For example, if an inventory table contains the fields id (int), code (varchar(50)), description (varchar(100)), the KeyFields property could be set to code if it was necessary to update based on this value rather than the internal integer id field.

If you need to integrate with a non-Microsoft SQL database, refer to Integrating with SQL Databases for additional information and connection strings.

When a column is an identity column, and specific values needs to be inserted, a custom field 'IdentityInsert' with value 'true' could be added to the node.

For tables and columns with spaces, the xml tag name will have to be escaped to make it valid xml. A space should be escaped as _0x0020_

A full list of characters can be found here: Unicode UCS-2 Code Chart (columbia.edu)