One of our bigger new features for version 4 is our new support for the Database Diagnostic Pack. We have a new interface for your ASH, AWR, ADDM reports, and snapshots, baselines, etc. I want to show you a quick navigation trick today: how to quickly go from snapshots with findings to the actual ADDM [...]
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Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler 4 User Interface Improvements
The name probably gives it away, but just in case you weren’t aware of this, Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler is an extension of Oracle SQL Developer. They share a framework that is derived from JDeveloper. The latest framework has some new user interface widgets that were adopted directly from Netbeans. I’ve blogged a bit [...]
Diagram Printing to PDF in Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler v4
We recently had to update our printing and PDF technology in Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler. An issue arose after making the switch from Java 6 to Java 7. As is likely to happen, not only we’re we able to largely maintain the current feature set, we we’re also able to greatly enhance it. So [...]
How to Create Views for All Tables with Oracle SQL Developer
Got this question over the weekend via a friend and Oracle ACE Director, so I thought I would share the answer here. If you want to quickly generate DDL to create VIEWs for all the tables in your system, the easiest way to do that with SQL Developer is to create a data model. Wait, [...]
SQL Developer Data Modeler: On Notes, Comments, and Comments in RDBMS
Ah the beautiful data model. They say a picture is worth a 1,000 words. And then we have our diagrams, how many words are they worth? So our models describe how the data ‘works’ – whether that be at a logical-business level, or a technical-physical level. Developers like to say that their code is self-documenting. [...]
Defaults for Exporting Data in Oracle SQL Developer
I was testing a reported bug in SQL Developer today – so the bug I was looking for wasn’t there (YES!) but I found a different one (NO!) – and I was getting frustrated by having to check the same boxes over and over again. What I wanted was INSERT STATEMENTS to the CLIPBOARD. I’m [...]
SQL Developer Q&A from ODTUG Tips & Tricks Webcast
Another great webcast yesterday – if you’re a paying member of ODTUG you can watch the show for yourself in their archives. If not, you can get my slide deck off of SlideShare. About 150 of you brave souls sat through an entire hour of me talking and then 10 more minutes of Q&A. We [...]
SQL Developer: BLOBs and the External Editor
We already know how easy it is to view images and plain text with the BLOB editor, yes? But what if I have in my column a bunch of PDFs stored? I want to see that stuff without having to save the file, finding it, and then opening it. Why can’t I just automatically open [...]
SQL Developer Quick Tip: Reordering Columns
Do you find yourself always scrolling and scrolling and scrolling to get to the column you want to see when looking at a table or view’s data? Don’t do that! Instead, just right-click on the column headers, select ‘Columns’, and reorder as desired. Then move up the columns you want to see first… This will [...]
Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler 4 and Comment Display
A new feature in Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler is the ability to display table and view comments directly in the ERD. So I can go from this: Normal Relational Diagram to Relational Diagram with Comments to Relational Diagram with Comments ONLY Now the cool part is that I don’t have to pick. I can [...]
Oracle SQL Developer 4 and Auto Spec – Body Toggles
I’ve been running version 4 for so long, that I have trouble remembering if some features are new to version 4. Well, here’s a simple feature that IS new to version 4 that I think our PL/SQL friends will appreciate. Say that you’re looking at a PACKAGE SPEC member, like a FUNCTION, and I want [...]
Unshared Worksheets in Oracle SQL Developer 4
My alternate title for this post was How to get the DBAs’ attention with lots and lots of connections in her database. But I decided to go with substance over style instead. Anyways, let’s talk about connections in SQL Developer for a bit – you know you need the refresher! By default, connecting to a [...]
How to Compare PL/SQL and SQL in Oracle SQL Developer
This question has come up a few times recently. One person asked how to compare 2 SQL statements at Open World. In fact, they claimed if I could show them how to do it, it would make the trip to San Francisco worth every penny. Don’t be surprised they left extremely satisfied Then just yesterday, [...]
Oracle SQL Developer and the Dreaded Connection Busy Message
So you’re minding your own business, doing your work, and you click in your favorite Oracle Database IDE. Do you get what you asked for? No! Instead, you are rewarded for your troubles with this puzzling and frustrating message. Abort? Try again? Busy? The Long Answer When you connect to a database in SQL Developer [...]
A Few Thoughts Regarding Oracle Open World 2013
Another busy, crazy, awesome week is behind us. I’m going to call it a success, but before I completely file it away, I wanted to share a few quick thoughts, and say thanks to a few people for their continued support. Sunday SQL Developer Golden Gate Fun Run We had about 20 people show up [...]
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