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Birthday greeting SMS service with Oracle and Ozeki NG SMS Gateway software

This page provides you detailed setup instructions on how to send birthday SMS greetings from Oracle database with Ozeki NG SMS Gateway.

First of all you need to configure Ozeki NG SMS Gateway software to be able to send SMS messages from your PC. You can find step-by-step guide at: Quick start guide. The Ozeki SMS software is able to connect to the mobile network either with a GSM modem connection or IP SMS connection.

After you have configured your Ozeki NG SMS Gateway software and you can also install a service provider connection to connect the SMS software to the mobile network, you need to configure your Oracle database. Please find the configuration guide at: How to send SMS from Oracle.

If you have configured your system you can start to setup the birthday greeting SMS service with Oracle and Ozeki NG SMS Gateway software.

Configuration guide

So it is assumed that you have already installed Ozeki NG SMS Gateway software and Oracle database with all its components.

These are the main steps of the configuration of birthday greeting SMS service:

1. Start SQL Developer (it is a component of Oracle database)
2. Create the connection to database
3. Create database table
4. Create a sequence to move the ID
5. Create a trigger to move the ID
6. Load data into the database
7. Install and configure a Database user in Ozeki NG SMS Gateway

Figure 1 - Start SQL Developer

Add a new connection to the database by right clicking on Connections and click on New Connection (Figure 2).

Figure 2 - Add new connection

Specify the parameters in the appeared window (Figure 3):
Connection Name: You can provide any name you wish (in our example it is "ozeki connection").
Username: the username you use to access to the database
Password: the password you use to access to the database

In SID field you need to enter the name that has been provided to the database when it is installed (installation name of the database).
Finally click on Connect.

Figure 3 - Specify parameters for connection

On Figure 4 you can see that the connection has been created.

Figure 4 - Created connection

Now create a database table. In the empty field you can type the SQL statements that will create the required database table (Figure 5). To execute the SQL query click on the green arrow.

Figure 5 - SQL statement

On Figure 6 you can see the created database table.

Figure 6 - Created table

Create a sequence to move the primary key (ID) of the table (Figure 7).

Figure 7 - Create a sequence

On Figure 8 you can see the created sequence.

Figure 8 - Created sequence

You also need to create a trigger (Figure 9). This trigger uses the created sequence and moves the primary key (ID) of the table.

Figure 9 - Create a trigger

You can see the created trigger (Figure 10).

Figure 10 - Created trigger

On Figure 11 you can also see the created trigger among the triggers of birthday table.

Figure 11 - Created trigger among the triggers of birthday table

Now you can enter data into the table (Figure 12) in the following way:

INSERT INTO birthday (customername, customerphone, birthdate) VALUES ('Elizabeth','+36301234567',DATE'2010-09-22');

Figure 12 - Enter data

Start Ozeki NG SMS Gateway service (Figure 13).

Figure 13 - Start Ozeki NG SMS Gateway

Log into Ozeki NG SMS Gateway (Figure 14).

Figure 14 - Login

Install a Database user by clicking on Add new user or application (Figure 15).

Figure 15 - Add new user or application

Select Database user interface and click on Install next to it (Figure 16).

Figure 16 - Install Database user

Provide a name for the Database user - in our example it is "birthday_dbuser" (Figure 17).

Figure 17 - Provide a name

Finally configure the installed Database user. On Database connection tab you need to specify the follows:
Connection string type: OleDb
Connection string:

Provider=OraOLEDB.Oracle.1;Persist Security Info=False;User ID=ozeki;Password=root;

Figure 18 - Configuration of Database user

On SQL for sending tab you also need to specify the SQL statements.

Polling tab on SQL for sending panel:

SELECT id, '', customerphone, CONCAT(CONCAT(CONCAT(CONCAT('Hello ',customername), '! The day of your birthday is: '), birthdate), ' Congratulations!') FROM birthday WHERE (EXTRACT(MONTH FROM CURRENT_DATE)=EXTRACT(MONTH FROM birthdate)) AND (EXTRACT(DAY FROM CURRENT_DATE)=EXTRACT(DAY FROM birthdate)) AND ((lastnotified is null) or (not(EXTRACT(YEAR FROM CURRENT_DATE))=(EXTRACT(YEAR FROM lastnotified))))

Figure 19 - Polling tab

Sending tab on SQL for sending panel:

UPDATE birthday SET status='sending', lastnotified=current_date WHERE id='$id'

Figure 20 - Sending tab

Sent tab on SQL for sending panel:

UPDATE birthday SET status='sent', lastnotified=current_date WHERE id='$id'

Figure 21 - Sent tab

Notsent tab on SQL for sending panel:

UPDATE birthday SET status='notsent', lastnotified=current_date WHERE id='$id'

Figure 22 - Not sent tab

Delivered tab on SQL for sending panel:

UPDATE birthday SET status='delivered', lastnotified=current_date WHERE id='$id'

Figure 23 - Delivered

Undelivered tab on SQL for sending panel:

UPDATE birthday SET status='undelivered', lastnotified=current_date WHERE id='$id'

Figure 24 - Undelivered

On Figure 25 you can see that Ozeki NG SMS Gateway has sent out the test messages after I followed the configuration steps above.

Figure 25 - Sent messages in Ozeki NG SMS Gateway

On Figure 26 you can also see that the status of the birthday greetings has also been modified to "sent" in the database.

Figure 26 - Status is sent

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