I’m new to Oracle, and I need a database…help!
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I’m new to Oracle, and I need a database…help!

Taking an Oracle Database class or course? Need to get up and going on Oracle Database really fast, and really easily? Here’s my advice!

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REST APIs and TABLE INSERTs: the Definitive Guide for Oracle
ORDS

REST APIs and TABLE INSERTs: the Definitive Guide for Oracle

REST APIs and TABLE INSERTs, everything you need. Bonus: we’ll build a REST API to GET the data, with support for CLOB/JSON, links, and exception handling!

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SQL Developer

We are now live in the Oracle Cloud with Oracle SQL Developer Web. Wait, what’s SQL Developer Web? It’s a browser based version of Oracle SQL Developer powered by Oracle REST Data Services. If you are a Database Cloud Service customer in the Oracle Cloud, it’s rolling out now to those subscribers. If you’d like to know more and see a quick demo, I made you a video 🙂

SQL Developer

Someone asked, hey, I know how to hide the schema notation in our diagrams You can too – READ THIS POST – …but (there is always a BUT), how can we hide it from the data dictionary reports as well? The answer is – you need to manage the report template. When you open the Report dialog, switch to the Custom Templates. We give you two custom templates to play with, ‘Table_one_level_list_Props’ and ‘Tables_2_Levels’. Pick…

SQL Developer

We’ve gone a bit manic when it comes to releasing updates for SQL Developer:- 4x a year, or once a quarter. We’re committed to delivering on this schedule, but we reserve the right to skip a release if there’s no urgent need. More frequent releases means not as much time to wait for bug fixes, and also that new features will be rolled out in smaller changes vs more dramatic ones. Here’s where we’ve been:…

SQL Developer

Normally when someone asks me about ordering packages, I check the doorstop for our daily Amazon delivery. Ok, it just seems that way, and I’m lucky that my awesome wife/partner doesn’t read this blog… …but what we’re really here to talk about is finding stuff in your PL/SQL package. I think there are 2 types of folks: Those that code willy-nilly: they build out each variable, procedure, type, function as it pops into their mind…

SQL Developer

A small feature that could have a huge impact on your code – we try to make sure you know your PL/SQL might be vulnerable. SQL Injection is a very well known security risk in the database world. Nefarious people could ‘inject’ SQL into the code you’re about to execute via some some of user input you make available to them. We even talk about this in the Oracle Database Docs and provide some examples…

SQL Developer

SQL Developer’s code editors try to help you out. They’ll show you two categories of informational advisories: there is a problem with this code we think we can help you with this code These are shown by various styles of underlined text in the editor. Let’s go through the list of what’s available as of version 18.1 – to be released, soon 🙂 Actually all of these items, save 1, are available right now in…

SQL Developer

I’ve been tweaking how my SQL Developer application looks and feels for a long time. Someone saw my desktop and wanted to know how to make theirs look like mine, hence this post. I realize beauty in in the eye of the beholder, but if you behold what I behold, then here’s how to get there. I recently came across this Scheme on GitHub, and have been using it for a few months now. It’s…

ORDS

When you AUTO-REST enable table in ORDS, we publish a full API for you: We auto find your Primary Key Column and use that to address particular rows (items) in your table (collection.) But..what happens if you don’t have a primary key? 119679692065f9423742b6e_000005 REST enable that… 119679692065f9423742b6e_000006 And now let’s ‘GET’ the table. So let’s try that… Hmmm, that ‘%2’ part doesn’t look right to me. That’s actually ‘%2B’ which is a way to escape…

SQL Developer

Let’s say you have a schema you want to reverse engineer and generate some docs. Lo and behold, the developers used foreign keys! But…there are so many of them, I can’t see the forest for the trees. So how do we make this simpler? Well, our developer for the Data Modeler showed me this trick: In his words: when use synonyms is checked tables that are referred more than 9 times are removed from global…