A friend of mine asked how he could generate CSV for 40 Oracle tables in Oracle SQL Developer. He could of course use Tools > Database Export to accomplish this. But, it was always the same 40 tables. And using the object picker in the wizard can get tedious, especially if it’s the same 40 […]
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We spend a lot of time here talking about tips, tricks, and cool things that you might have missed. These posts generally all assume you’ve been around the Oracle Database block. But many of the folks that ultimately end up here, have NEVER touched an Oracle Database before. This post is for you. You have […]
Oracle SQL*Plus has been around since 1985. It does what it does, and it does it well. SQL Developer has been around since 2006. It’s become the de facto IDE and GUI for the Database. There was an opportunity to build something new that could take the command line interface and enhance it to meet […]
Today’s post is courtesy of this question from a reader: Can the SQLDeveloper Report/Chart feature create a line chart where x contains date/time and y the values to be plotted? The answer is ‘Yes!’ I’m going to use HR.EMPLOYEES to give me my data. I start with… SELECT Hire_date, Salary FROM Hr.Employees ORDER BY Salary […]
If you know how to edit your code in SQL*Plus, you already know how to do it in SQLcl. But I get asked this a lot, do you support EDIT? Do you support CHANGE? And what does SQLcl offer over those? So let’s tackle the old and then the new… C/Old/New SQL*Plus has the C[HANGE] […]
You may want to audit or ‘journal’ changes to your data. As you update a record, add a record, or delete a record – log that change in a different table. When doing your designs in the Data Modeler, you can ask at the time of DDL generation to have the journaling table and trigger […]
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Someone on the innerwebs asked how to show the data inside their user defined TYPE’d column in a table when querying it with SQL Developer. Here’s their code: CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE ANSCHRIFT_T AS OBJECT (STRASSE CHAR(12), HAUSNR CHAR(3)); CREATE TABLE VERTRETER(V_NR NUMBER(4) PRIMARY KEY, ANSCHRIFT ANSCHRIFT_T); INSERT INTO VERTRETER VALUES (1, ANSCHRIFT_T(’TESTWEG’,’14’)); […]
You want the create script for a table. You want the create script for ALL of your tables. You want the tablespace. But not the constraints. How do you configure this in our tools? SQL Developer: The Preferences & the Wizards Go to the preferences. Database, utilities, export. SQLcl: SET DDL HELP SET DDL SET […]
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Kris (no, not THAT Kris) asks… Is there some sort of ruler that is built into this software? If not, is there some way to select a table and then specify X and Y coordinates so that I can top left align all of the diagrams that I’m creating. Currently, I am zooming in and […]
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SQL Developer has a DBMS Output panel you can open and add to your desktop. You then add a connection you want to poll, and then you enable polling. It’s about 4 clicks. If you want to increase the default buffer size from 20,000 characters, then that’s a few more clicks and keystrokes. A friend […]
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We already have some pretty Spartan toolbars. We aim for fewer buttons, not less. But maybe you want to go SUPER Spartan. Even fewer buttons! Yeah, you can do that. View > Show Toolbars > Customize Main Toolbar > Customize I’m going to take a few things off the main editor and data modeler toolbars. […]
Tons of bug fixes, mostly. You can now ask for your working directory via the PWD command. Download is here. Scroll down to the bottom, link is on the right side.
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I sometimes get a double-take when I do a blog post or tweet or show a picture of SQL Developer running on my Mac. My Macbook is my personal machine: I don’t normally do live-demo’s on it, but I almost always do my blog posts and screenshots from there. For official webcast stuff and conferences, […]
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Here’s a quick run-down of FAQ’s I get when doing presentations or demos. Can SQL Developer… Extend a tablespace? Yes. You can edit an existing data file or add a new one. We’ll also show you the SQL that’s going to be used so you can copy it to run in SQL*Plus or wherever. And […]
INFORMATION is a new command available in SQLcl, a command-line interface to Oracle Database. [email protected] >help information INFORMATION ——– This command IS LIKE DESCRIBE but WITH more details about the objects requested. INFO[RMATION] {[schema.]object[@connect_identifier]} INFO+ will SHOW COLUMN statistics [email protected] > It’s available for tables and views, of course. Here’s a table. […]
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