It’s a bit long at 17 minutes, but I go through the process of: creating a new table based on an Excel/CSV defining the columns checking the column names checking the column definintions is the column wide enough? defining DATEs running the export fixing errors saving the scenario so you can run it on demand Remember, if you prefer to …
Where Desktop and Web Collide – Sharing Data Modeler Diagrams
You might have heard we now have a new SQL Developer in the family: SQL Developer Web. If that’s news to you, here’s a quick video recap: Hopefully you noticed that one of the main features of SQL Developer Web (and SQL Developer Desktop!) is data modeling. We were thinking: wouldn’t it be nice if could pull up a diagram …
Easier Preferences…Digging
We have a LOT of application preferences. And users have a funny habit of asking us to add MORE to every release. So, it’s great that we make it very easy to customize their SQL Developer experience via a few clicks and toggles. But, it’s kind of hard to find the RIGHT switch when you want to go change something. …
SQL Developer Reporting: Video Demo & Slides
As a feature: Been there forever On the desktop by default 80% of you aren’t using it I think it’s a feature that can really turbo charge your experience with the database and SQL Developer – so I did a 10 minute talk on the subject. So if you’re curious about what you might be missing, here you go! And …
Demonstrating Oracle SQL Developer Web: CREATE & ALTER TABLE
In two previous posts, I have: Introduced Oracle SQL Developer Web and did a quick demo of the Worksheet Demonstrated the data modeler diagramming feature. Today, I want to show you our CREATE and EDIT TABLE dialogs. While I aim for 10 minute videos, I had to go into overtime, and came out at 13 minutes. But as a bonus, …
SQL Developer Tips & Tricks: The GIF
Not able to make my Tips & Tricks talk at the Great Lakes Oracle User Group conference this week? Don’t have the 50 minutes to watch my recorded YouTube version? Can you spare 90 seconds? You don’t even need to turn the sound on. Just watch this GIF. To recap: ALT+G to do a search Use Doc Tab Groups to …
Demonstrating Oracle SQL Developer Web: the Data Modeler
In this 10 minute video, you get: super quick recap of the Worksheet building a new diagram moving stuff around, changing the colors generating DDL generating a data dictionary report saving and searching diagrams This was my 50th post on YouTube. If you like what you see, be sure to subscribe there so you don’t miss any updates. Your subscriptions …
Announcing Oracle SQL Developer Web!
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 …
How to Hide Schema Notation in your Data Modeler Data Dictionary Reports
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 …
How to Compare a Specific Subset of DB Objects
A question from the innerwebs – Hello, please, is it possible to define and save a (sub)set of objects for comparison? In Databasediff wizard we have an option to define objects, but it’s a bit cumbersome to do the same thing over and over again, so it would be highly useful to save options and selected items for comparison for …