The ubiquitous HR.EMPLOYEES table – how many different ways can we look at this data? How much money people make, by department? By reading the column comments, we know that HR.EMPLOYEES.SALARY is “Monthly salary of the employee. Must be greater than zero (enforced by constraint emp_salary_min)” So let’s chart that. This charts the data we get back from SELECT avg(SALARY), …
30 SQL Developer Tips in 30 Days, Day 11: Tree Trimming
Many of you are not DBAs or developers. You spend most of your time browsing tables, running queries, and answering questions that help make your business ‘go.’ The SQL Developer Connection Tree shows a whole lot of stuff that you might not ever use. So turn it off. Tools – Preferences – Database – Navigation Filter By the way, this …
Video: Completion Insight in Oracle SQL Developer v4.0.2
I said earlier today that version 4.0.2 of SQL Developer consisted on ONLY bug fixes. I should have said MOSTLY bug fixes. There was also one minor tweak, although it was a minor tweak to a major feature: Completion Insight. This is the feature that kicks in while you are typing – suggesting column or table names to help you …
Oracle SQL Developer & Data Modeler v4.0.2 Are Now Available
As of late yesterday afternoon, we have two new updates for you: Oracle SQL Developer v4.0.2 – bug fixes only Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler v4.0.2 – bug fixes and a few tweaks You can read the release notes to see exactly what’s changed. For SQL Developer, the major things are an update to fix some issues with our Data …
SQL Developer 4.0 Patch Release Now Available
We actually have THREE patches for you: Oracle SQL Developer 4.0.1 Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler Oracle REST Data Services, formerly Oracle APEX Listener, 2.0.6 Bug Fixes, Mostly SQL Developer had a few dozen or so bugs that have been addressed. A few major fixes of note include the new ASH/AWR stuff not working when connected to RAC instances, and …
Oracle SQL Developer 4 and the Oracle Client
You don’t need to have an Oracle Client installed on your machine to use Oracle SQL Developer. Everything you need to connect to Oracle Database is provided by the JDBC driver included with the download. So you can be up and running in usually less than 5 minutes. But if you DO happen to have a Client on your machine, …
Oracle SQL Developer v4 is Live & Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade Today!
A new version of Oracle SQL Developer has been officially released. Oracle developers, DBAs, and data professionals will find that v4.0 is perhaps our best release yet. Of course, we always say that 🙂 So here’s 10 reasons to go upgrade. 10. Version 3.2 is more than a year old. Version 3.2 was released last November. Tens of thousands (maybe …
Oracle SQL Developer 4: Windows and the JDK
A few things have changed when it comes to running SQL Developer on a Windows machine. In previous versions, the first thing you’d see when running SQL Developer would be a prompt asking for the location of Java. Turns out, it’s hard for Java applications to run without Java. On Macs and Linux/Unix environments, we don’t prompt for the location …
Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler v4.0 Is Now Available
The title says it all. Version 4 is now available, replacing v3.3 as the current version. What you need to know: Downloads New Features Release Notes Docs My Two Favorite New Features Comment Only Views If you need to publish or produce a diagram for less technical users, with just an overview of entities or tables, you can now create …
Quick Tip: Snapshot Findings and ADDM Reports in SQL Developer 4
One of our bigger new features for version 4 is our new support for the Database Diagnostic Pack. We have a new interface for your ASH, AWR, ADDM reports, and snapshots, baselines, etc. I want to show you a quick navigation trick today: how to quickly go from snapshots with findings to the actual ADDM findings report. On the DBA …