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Retrieve external data using client side scripting in sharepoint

venkatesh padmanabhan 181 Reputation points
2020-08-20T06:37:28.41+00:00

Hi. I have a sharepoint 2016 site. I would like to retieve data from SQL/Oracle database and show the datatable information as a table in a webpart page.

I do not have options to create a visual studio code, BCS. Is there an option to use the Javascript client object model to retrieve the external data information ? If yes, is there any code references for the same.

Thanks

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  1. Trevor Seward 11,706 Reputation points
    2020-08-20T16:15:39.307+00:00

    JavaScript doesn't work outside of the sphere of the web. You need to have a middle tier that can talk to Oracle/SQL. This middle tier can have a web service endpoint where your client-side code can talk to.

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  1. Amos Wu-MSFT 4,051 Reputation points
    2020-08-21T02:33:48.05+00:00

    It is not a good choice to use JavaScript to retrieve data from database.Even if it works,it would expose the database user name and password on the client.
    As @Trevor Seward said,you need to develop a middleware(like web service) to retrieve data from database,then you could use JavaScript to call your middleware to get the value.

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