Updated: July 29, 2012 Defining what success means to you and your blog is something you have to do before you can answer questions like ‘Is this working?’ If you’re using your website or blog to sell widgets, it’s pretty easy to measure. Are we selling more widgets or do customers on average spend more per transaction, or do we make more money with less products – these are all pretty easy metrics to measure.…
Oracle SQL Developer allows a user to save their passwords for their Oracle database connections. I don’t want to continue the ‘is it bad to save passwords’ debate, but I will share a ‘trick’ for making some of you a bit happier. Just add the following line to your ‘sqldeveloper.conf’ file, which lies in the SQLDEVELOPERBIN folder: AddVMOption -Dsqldev.savepasswd=false On application start-up, SQL Developer will see this flag and hide the option to save your…
Looking forward to attending KSCOPE12 in San Antonio? Yes? Awesome – I will see you there. I’ll be presenting two sessions: SQL Developer Tips and Tricks Debugging PL/SQL With SQL Developer No? Can’t make it? That’s OK, because I’m working with the awesome folks at ODTUG to bring my SQL Developer Tips and Tricks session to you via webcast! You can sign up for our session on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:00 PM – 1:00…
My data hero, Karen Lopez aka @datachick, is hosting a blog meme for this friday called “#FailFriday: I was young and didn’t know any better.” I have made lots of mistakes, but this one still gets to me more than 10 years later. In 2000 I was working for a small ISV in the library management systems space. We had customers all over the world, including Kuwait. Now most of our customers were librarians, not…
I’ve already violated my oath to never use acronyms with the blog title, so for those that do not know what RMAN is, please go read the DOCS. Recovery Manager (RMAN) is fully integrated with the Oracle database to perform a range of backup and recovery activities, including maintaining an RMAN repository of historical data about backups. You can access RMAN through the command line or through Oracle Enterprise Manager. Hmmm, remind me to talk…
If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, how valuable is a 6 minute video? Instead of throwing up a bunch of bullet points and screenshots on the blog, I’m going to let you watch the movie instead. In just a few minutes, learn how to maximize your SQL Developer experience by Navigating the connection tree with just your keyboard Optionally using the Schema Browser instead Jumping to package members in the Procedure Editor Using…
This is a pretty old topic as far as SQL Developer goes. There are public articles going back to 2007 that show you how to extend the functionality in SQL Developer via SQL and XML. But I’m going to guess that for many of you that this is a new subject. Knowing that extensions exist versus being able to create one is an important distinction. I want this post to help you realize both! We’re…
I have a nasty habit of not thinking. I take something for granted or assume something for so long, that it corrupts my original learning or understanding of a concept. And then when someone calls me out, my first reaction is to defend my ‘shortcut’ thinking instead of re-evaluating my set of assumptions. So I’ve been working with data modeling software for almost 15 years and on a regular basis for the last 8 or…
Javadoc is a tool for generating API documentation in HTML format from doc comments in source code. Wouldn’t it be nice if a similar tool existed for PLSQL? Well you’re in luck because someone already made that available via an open-source utility known as pldoc. Automatically document your database schema with SQL Developer using the DB Doc feature. Generate HTML pages and allow your teams to click through the PLSQL source and tables without access…
This post is not a ‘How to Version Your Models’ tutorial. We have that in movie form in the Oracle Learning Library (OLL.) There’s a series of several 2-3 minute videos that step you through how to add a model to source control via Subversion, how to make changes, commit said changes, and how someone else can do a Check Out to see and continue your work. I want to concentrate on a small but…