How the Navicat tool connects to the Oracle database

when we have finished installing the Oracle database, we will be thinking about connecting with the visualizer, Navicat is our common tool for visualizing connected databases

When we finish installing the Oracle database, we need to start him

Start the corresponding service first

Ensure that the two services are in a boot state and start manually without booting

Open SQL Plus

Enter the user name and password, which is configured when you install it.

The next step is to link the visualizer navicat

Open Tool

We create a new Oracle connection

Here I am named Oracle, of course, this can be whatever you like to go to the name, and enter the user name and password, just like

Inside the Advanced options

Now, if you connect directly, it's not going to work.

One more step is the key, is to configure the Oci.dll file

The Oci.dll file in the Bin folder of your installed Oracle installation directory will be imported here

E:\software\oracle\Oracle_win64\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\BIN\oci.dll

The above is my installation directory of files, people according to their own installation directory different to guide in

Restart the navicat after it is in, and it will automatically take effect after reboot.

We can test the connection first.

You can see the connection is successful.

How the Navicat tool connects to the Oracle database