Your relational model may for a data warehouse or star schema where you need to define a table as being a dimension or fact. Or maybe you’re like my friend who asked me this question last night: If I’m looking at about 90 Dimension tables which all have the name prefaced by “Dim” how can [...]
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Selecting Related Objects in Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler
I loved Fred Rogers. He helped raise me. Nicest guy ever? So what does he have to do with Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler? One word, ‘neighbors.’ I got a good question from a new user yesterday: Is there a quick way to add all the tables (to a subview) directly related to a specific [...]
Die! Or How to Cancel Queries in Oracle SQL Developer
I’m not sure why, but it appears many of you wish you could take back your SQL queries. It’s like that one time you posted that picture on Facebook and immediately (3 days later) you realized it wasn’t a great career move. Maybe that data you asked for wasn’t going to be that helpful if [...]
Questions & Answers from SQL Developer Tips & Tricks ODTUG Webinar
We had a great webinar yesterday with more than 350 people attending. Even tacking on 10 minutes at the end, I didn’t have enough time to answer all the questions (31!) So I’m going to tackle them here in quick order. If you want a more detailed answer, use the search form on your right [...]
SQL Developer: Preferences for Delimited Text Exports
Yes, it’s true. Some people export their data to formats other than Excel. Another popular format is ‘delimited,’ where fields are defined by a delimiter. The most famous of these is CSV, a comma separated values file. So your data can be read by another program quite easily because it knows where one field stops [...]
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