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SQL Developer Trick: Double-Click to Go Full Screen

No matter how many monitors you have or how large they may be, sometimes you just need more real-estate for your coding. You can have a whole lot going on in your IDE, and SQL Developer is no exception. Of course you can always close or hide the offending panels and windows, but then it’s [...]

SQL Developer Data Modeler Navigator Can Get You There I Bet!

Just so you don’t think I’m crazy, you should know that I’m a father to a wonderful two year old daughter. She’s awesome, except when she wants to act her age. When we get desperate, we turn on her favorite show. I have seen about 200 different episodes of Dora the Explorer. My Spanish is [...]

Getting Your Mind Out of the Gutter and Your Line Numbers In

Hopefully your code is cleaner than what runs through this every morning

I’m not sure if I can help with the mind part, but I can definitely add some perspective on the line numbers. Quickly, let’s define just what the ‘gutter’ is in the world of programming and database GUIs. I found a good definition [...]

Average Run Time for Oracle Jobs

Oracle SQL Developer Job Run Log

Starting with 10g and the introduction of DMBS_SCHEDULER, Oracle database began tracking and storing the execution duration of a job. By default this information is kept around for 30 days. You can of course change the logging level and the retention period for the job runs – read the [...]

Sweet Child Report O' Mine

I am just getting my feet wet when it comes to the reports in SQL Developer. The tool itself has quite a lot going on, everything from a database IDE to a migration platform, to a data modeling component. And then throw in the reporting stuff. I’ve already covered how to build a simple bar [...]

SQL Developer Quick Tip: GOTO in the Schema Browser

It’s a relational database, so it’s only a matter of time before you stumble across an object that’s dependent on another object, right?

If you are looking at a table in the browser, be sure to check out the ‘Dependencies’ page. This page displays the database objects that will be upset if the selected table were [...]

Connecting to Access, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server, Sybase, & Teradata with SQL Developer

SQL Developer is built by Oracle, for Oracle. It’s the database IDE. That’s my current elevator pitch, at least. But, SQL Developer is also a fully featured data modeling solution (have you been enjoying my data modeling posts?) AND a 3rd party database migration platform.

The migration piece is the Migration Workbench. Since we support migrations [...]

Visualize Your DDL Scripts

Data models sure are handy. They tell a story – how does the information get stored as data? Just what is a ‘customer?’ Sometimes though our applications die and only leave legacy scripts behind. Or maybe you are a DBA and someone has given you a set of scripts to create some new objects in [...]

Viewing PLSQL Compilation Errors in Oracle SQL Developer

A question that comes up fairly frequently revolves around how to see your errors when working with PL/SQL in SQL Developer.

Most folks are probably working in the worksheet – this is the default editor for your connection.

Let’s take a look at this sample program

create or replace procedure do_nothing is
begin
dbms_output.put(sysdate);
this should probably error out, [...]

Generating HTML Data Dictionary Reports with Oracle SQL Developer

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that most people who use SQL Developer do not realize it has a fully-baked data modeling tool built into it. It’s not like we hide it, but we kind of hide it. To open the Data Modeler inside of SQL Developer, navigate to the View [...]

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