Today’s Question: Does anyone know of an editor (or program) that will match beginning and ending parentheses in sql and highlight an ending paren that is missing? It just so happens that I do know of such an amazing editor or program I’ll let the pictures do the talking for me this afternoon: Matched Parens [...]
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A SQL Developer Primer: Open a New Worksheet
The Worksheet in Oracle SQL Developer is your primary interface for writing and running your SQL and PL/SQL code. As you can imagine, I’ve already written quite a bit about how the worksheet ‘works’. Today I want to spend just a few moments explaining the two different buttons for launching a new worksheet. With a [...]
Exporting Table Column Comments to Excel using Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler
I love it when I get product and technology questions from our users. More often than not, it leads to me citing a blog post on the subject, or even better, inspires new writing material. And that’s the case for today’s post: Is there an easy way to fake the search tool into getting all [...]
Oracle SQL Developer and Viewing User TYPE Data
A ‘quick’ question came in this morning: “Jeff, does SQL Developer show contents of Object type columns? I’m advised not…” I wanted to say ‘Yes’ and then just run away laughing maniacally, but I thought maybe I should put together a quick example instead. So here goes. And by the way, welcome to 2013 everyone [...]
Top 10 Most Popular Oracle SQL Developer Posts of 2012
Yes, another ‘Top 10′ list is here! Yes, it’s lazy. But, I’m all about lazy, and just because it’s lazy and overdone, doesn’t mean it has no value. If you’re new here or if you have a hard time catching up with all of your favorite bloggers and news outlets, here are my most popular [...]

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