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Connecting Apache Zeppelin to your Oracle Data Warehouse

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In my last posts I provided an overview of the Apache Zeppelin open source project which is a new style of application called a “ notebook ”. These notebook applications typically runs within your browser so as an end user there is no desktop software to download and install. Interestingly, I had a very quick response to this article asking about how to setup a connection within Zeppelin to an Oracle Database. Therefore, in this post I am going to look at how you can install the Zeppelin server and create a connection to your Oracle data warehouse. This aim of this post is to walk you through the following topics: Installing Zeppelin Configuring Zeppelin What is an interpreter Finding and installing the Oracle JDBC drivers Setting up a connection to an Oracle PDB Firstly a quick warning! There are a couple of different versions of Zeppelin available for download. At the moment I am primarily using version 0.6.2 which works really well. Currently, for some reason I am seei