There’s nothing worse than the ‘white screen of panic.’ You’re faced with the prospect of actually writing some code from scratch. Or even worse, you’re doing a presentation or demo, and everyone gets to see what a horrible typist you are. Yes, you could browse your SQL History, but that could contain several hundred or [...]
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Auto-Generate Group By Clauses with Oracle SQL Developer
This feature is sure to define your placement into one of the following camps: I love it when my IDE helps me with my code I hate it when my IDE inserts code I didn’t explicitly type And the feature is – Autogenerate Group By clause The help defines this preference/feature as: Automatically generates a [...]
How To Block Select Text in Oracle SQL Developer
This drove me nuts for a few minutes, so I figure you might need help too. That probably explains why you had to Google ‘Block Select’ and wound up here. Here is what you want: There’s No Trick, But You Do Have to Enable It The default behavior is to do a normal ‘wrapping’ selection [...]
Top 10 Tips & Tricks for Oracle SQL Developer
Being a short week due to the holiday, and with everyone enjoying their Summer vacations (apologies Southern Hemispherians), I reckoned it was a great time to do one of those lazy recap-Top 10-Reader’s Digest type posts. I’ve been sharing 1-3 tips or ‘tricks’ a week since I started blogging about SQL Developer, and I have [...]
ODTUG SQL Developer Tips & Tricks Presentation
I’ve been fine-tuning my SQL Developer Tips presentation, having given it at RMOUG and now electronically for ODTUG. Still a lot of work to do until it is ‘perfect,’ but folks already seem to enjoy it (if not me.) What I have left to do is trim the fat so I can shove as many [...]
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