OracleCredential class provides a secure way to provide password while opening connection with Oracle Database using the ODP.NET driver. Use this class to avoid providing passwords in clear text in the connection string while opening a connection with Oracle Database. One can pass user id, password and DBA Privilege specific attributes through OracleCredential constructors and thus these attributes do not need to be in the connection string.

Operating system authenticated and context connections are not supported through OracleCredential class. An ArgumentException will be thrown if "/" is passed for userId or proxyUserId arguments of OracleCredential constructor.

Class Inheritance

System.Object

      Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleCredential

Declaration

// C#
public sealed class OracleCredential

Requirements

Thread Safety

All public static methods are thread-safe, although instance methods do not guarantee thread safety.

Example

// C#
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Security;
using Oracle.DataAccess.Client;
//using Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Client;

class OracleCredentialSample

{
  static void Main()
  {
    // Connect
    string constr = "Data Source=oracle";

    SecureString secPwd = new SecureString();
    secPwd.AppendChar('h');
    secPwd.AppendChar('r');

    // Make the password read-only.
    secPwd.MakeReadOnly();

    // Create OracleCredential with userid and secure password.
    OracleCredential oc = new OracleCredential("hr", secPwd);

    OracleConnection con = new OracleConnection(constr, oc);
    con.Open();

    // Execute a SQL SELECT

    OracleCommand cmd = con.CreateCommand();
    cmd.CommandText = "select * from employees";
    
    OracleDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
    
    // Print all employee numbers
    while (reader.Read())
      Console.WriteLine(reader.GetInt32(0));
    
    // Clean up
    reader.Dispose();
    cmd.Dispose();
    con.Dispose();
  }
}