6 Registering Locations and Connections

This chapter contains the following topics:

• About Remote Locations and Connections
  To use an Oracle-technology source data system adapter (the general Oracle Tables and Views adapter and the Oracle Clinical adapters) you must create a database link and define one or more Remote Locations in the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub user interface for each actual remote location, and define one or more Connections giving a valid username and password for each Remote Location. All passwords are encrypted in Oracle LSH.
• Defining Remote Locations
  If you need to load data into Oracle LSH from another system, you must define a Remote Location.
• Defining Connections
  A Connection provides a username and password that Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub uses to access a remote database.
• Searching for Remote Locations and Connections
  To find existing Connections, you must go to the Remote Location for which they are defined. To find existing Remote Locations, do the following: