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| <h1 class="topictitle1">Creating a Connection Profile</h1> |
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| <div><p>A connection profile contains the connection property information needed to connect to a data source in your enterprise.</p> |
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| <span>From the main menu, select <span class="menucascade"> |
| <span class="uicontrol">File</span> |
| > <span class="uicontrol">New</span> |
| > <span class="uicontrol">Other</span> |
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| <span>Under <span class="uicontrol">Connection Profiles</span>, select <span class="uicontrol">Connection Profile</span> and click <span class="uicontrol">Next</span>.</span> |
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| <li id="asc1229700343352__step_F4DCC5908C714D85BD1DF1C9833044F4"><a name="asc1229700343352__step_F4DCC5908C714D85BD1DF1C9833044F4"><!-- --></a> |
| <span>Select the connection profile type.</span> |
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| <span>Enter a unique <span class="uicontrol">Name</span> for the connection profile.</span> |
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| <span>(Optional) Enter a <span class="uicontrol">Description</span> and click <span class="uicontrol">Next</span>.</span> |
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| <span>Complete the required information in the wizard for your connection profile type.</span> |
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| <span>Click |
| <span class="uicontrol">Test Connection</span> to ping the |
| server and to verify that the connection profile is working. |
| </span> |
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| <span>Click <span class="uicontrol">Finish</span> to create the connection profile.</span> |
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| <div><div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br/> |
| <div><a href="../../doc/html/asc1229700328274.html" title="The Data Source Explorer contains connection profile instances.">Data Source Explorer View</a></div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br/> |
| <div><a href="../../doc/html/asc1229700344899.html" title="A connection profile contains the connection property information needed to connect to a database runtime instance.">Creating a Database Connection Profile</a></div> |
| <div><a href="../../doc/html/asc1229700346509.html" title="If you modify the properties of a connection profile, you can refresh the connection profile to update its contents.">Refreshing a Connection Profile</a></div> |
| <div><a href="../../doc/html/asc1229700347915.html" title="You can rename a connection profile.">Renaming a Connection Profile</a></div> |
| <div><a href="../../doc/html/asc1229700349493.html" title="You can delete a connection profile.">Deleting a Connection Profile</a></div> |
| <div><a href="../../doc/html/asc1229700350915.html" title="Ping the data source/enterprise resource to test a connection profile.">Testing a Connection Profile</a></div> |
| <div><a href="../../doc/html/asc1229700354259.html" title="Import one or more connection profiles into the current workspace.">Importing a Connection Profile</a></div> |
| <div><a href="../../doc/html/asc1229700357056.html" title="Export one or more connection profiles to a text file.">Exporting a Connection Profile</a></div> |
| <div><a href="../../doc/html/asc1229700358681.html" title="Edit data source/enterprise resource configuration parameters for a specific connection profile.">Editing Connection Profile Properties</a></div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="relref"><strong>Related reference</strong><br/> |
| <div><a href="../../doc/html/asc1229700331243.html" title="Determines how connection profile information displays: grouped by schema or listed alphabetically with database object owner in parentheses next to the object name.">Database Connection Profile Preferences</a></div> |
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