After presenting this topic a few times over the years, I decided on a different take this Spring: I would start by introducing some requirements for a new project, and how ORDS fits into that and delivers what you need. I’ve also embedded our latest 15 minute video demonstration – enjoy! REST Enabling your Oracle Database (2018 Update) from Jeff …
Where to get help with Oracle SQL Developer
I was inspired by Joel’s post on this subject for APEX so much, that I thought I’d copy his idea. So you’re reading this post on my blog, so you found me – maybe probably via Google. Or you walked into my mom at the grocery store. Either way, so glad you got here. But did you know, there are …
Space Report from SQL Developer..in SQLcl
I was using the Instance Viewer today and ran into the drill down for Storage. Let’s take a closer look at that report. I like this report enough, that I want to be able to run it in SQLcl. SQLcl is a command-line interface, so I’ll have to make a few changes. The links won’t work, boo. Those are easy …
Can You Format My Code, This Way?
A follower reached out to me late yesterday with this request: And the answer is yes, we can pretty much get there. I’ve noticed a few things by looking at his hand-formatted code on the bottom section. He prefers: everything lowercase right-aligned keywords no line breaks for the sub query ()’s no line breaks after SELECT/FROM/WHERE keywords So let’s go …
Instance Viewer: The Video!
I’m always a bit surprised when I find a SQL Developer user who does NOT know about the Instance Viewer! Of course you loyal readers know all about it. But you’re busy – you don’t have time to tell your friends. So just send them this video, and I’ll tell them about it. In a nutshell: it’s a performance dashboard …
Executing PL/SQL PACKAGE.PROCEDURE via REST
I don’t normally blog on a Sunday, but I’m confined to my bed/couch for the next few days, so I might as well answer another question! This from the YouTube: “Hi Jeff, Can you please share similar example where REST service is calling a package.procedure with IN and OUT parameters and we can pass IN parameters to get the result?” …
3 Tips for Working with PL/SQL
I’ll show you 3 cool tips and tricks for working with PL/SQL in SQL Developer…in under 7 minutes! In-code navigation – click into where your objects are declared Test Query – see if your SQL is gonna work BEFORE you compile it Using the Code Outline For those that can’t do video, basically you can Ctrl-Mouse-Hover Navigate ANYWHERE Not just …
Two SQL Developer Tricks: DBMS_XPLAN and Code Templates
We recently (18.2) added a new way to generate execution plans in SQL Developer – we generate a call to DBMS_XPLAN for the SQL ID at your cursor position. DBMS_XPLAN is a package, and one of it’s procedures is ‘DISPLAY_CURSOR’: This table function displays the explain plan of any cursor loaded in the cursor cache. In addition to the explain …
Video: Explain Plan, Execution Plan, AutoTrace, and Real Time SQL Monitoring
15 minutes overview of how to use these features in Oracle SQL Developer: Get an Explain Plan Customize the display of the plan Get a cached plan Use DBMS_XPLAN Compare Plans Use Real Time SQL Monitoring Use AutoTrace. And if you want an awesome video, MUCH more in depth about how to read a plan, then I suggest this from …
How to Open your PL/SQL Objects…With the Keyboard in SQL Developer
I have some code… BEGIN give_raises(); END; / I can guess that GIVE_RAISES is a procedure of some kind. But now I want to open it, or ‘go to it’ or ‘step into it.’ And I want to do so without having to pick up my mouse. So I could tell you about the Ctrl+Click trick, but that’s all mouse. …