Overview Quickstart dbt Compatibility The Style Guide profiles.yml sources.yml Configuration Supported Databases

ORACLE

Enterprise-grade relational database. Industry standard for mission-critical financial, ERP, and healthcare systems.

DVT SUPPORT

✓ FEDERATION SOURCE

read in federation models

✓ FEDERATION TARGET

materialize federation results

✓ DEFAULT TARGET

run full dbt projects against it

✓ SEED TARGET

dvt seed --target loads here

DVT supports Oraclebecause both dbt and Sling do: dbt drives standard materializations when it's your default target, Sling moves data in and out during federation. Connectivity for both layers is checked with dvt debug --all.

PREREQUISITES

Driver: oracledb — installed automatically by:

dvt sync

CONFIGURATION FIELDS

FIELD	TYPE	REQUIRED	DEFAULT	DESCRIPTION
type	string	yes	—	Must be `oracle`
host	string	yes	—	Oracle server hostname
port	integer	no	1521	Listener port
user	string	yes	—	Oracle username
password	string	yes	—	Oracle password
service	string	yes	—	Oracle service name
threads	integer	no	4	Number of parallel threads

PROFILES.YML EXAMPLE

my_project:
  target: oracle_dev
  outputs:
    oracle_dev:
      type: oracle
      host: oracle.internal.com
      port: 1521
      user: ANALYTICS
      password: "{{ env_var('ORA_PASSWORD') }}"
      service: ORCL

SOURCES.YML EXAMPLE

sources:
  - name: erp_system
    meta:
      connection: oracle_dev
    schema: FINANCE
    tables:
      - name: GL_JOURNAL
      - name: AP_PAYMENTS

DBT ADAPTER FEATURES

When Oracle is your default target, every standard dbt model runs through the official dbt adapter — all of its documented capabilities apply unchanged:

MATERIALIZATIONS

INCREMENTAL STRATEGIES

NOTABLE CONFIGS

▸parallel degree
▸compression clauses
▸service_name connections

Official dbt Oracle adapter docs ↗

FEDERATION INCREMENTAL STRATEGIES

Strategies available when this engine is the target of a f_incremental model:

✓ Append✓ Delete+Insert✓ Merge

KNOWN LIMITATIONS

⚠DROP uses PL/SQL blocks with CASCADE CONSTRAINTS PURGE