Oracle example connection

oracle.py

"""
In order to connect to oracle the following packages will need to be installed from conda.

cx_oracle
oracle-instantclient
libaio
"""
# Import the library needed
import cx_Oracle


# Import config parser to read the ini file setup as a secret
import configparser


# Setup the credentials
config = configparser.ConfigParser()
config.read('/var/run/secrets/user_credentials/oracle_credentials')

# Define some variables read from secret that was defined as an ini file
username = config.get('default', 'username')
password = config.get('default', 'password')
uri = config.get('default', 'uri')
port = config.get('default', 'port')

# Create the connection and setup the cursor
conn = cx_Oracle.connect(f'{username}/{password}@//{uri}:{port}/XEPDB1')
cur = conn.cursor()

# Execute select statement and fetch all results
cur.execute("SELECT 'Hello World!' FROM dual")
res = cur.fetchall()

# Print results
print(res)

# Close the connection
conn.close()