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 …
Exporting Multiple Tables To A Single Excel File…Using SQL Developer’s Cart
I’ve talked about the Cart a few times. It’s interesting to describe what the Cart is for, because it can be used or so many different things. But in general, it allows you do perform a set of operations against a collection of database objects. In this case I’m going to show you how to export several views and tables …
Shopping for CSV with SQL Developer’s Cart
A friend of mine asked how he could generate CSV for 40 Oracle tables in Oracle SQL Developer. He could of course use Tools > Database Export to accomplish this. But, it was always the same 40 tables. And using the object picker in the wizard can get tedious, especially if it’s the same 40 tables every day/week/month/epoch. So, I …
Batch Loading Your Oracle Database Cloud Services via the SQL Developer Command-Line Interface
I recently talked about how to load up your Oracle Cloud service with your local data. In that scenario, you’re in the graphical user interface, clicking buttons, doing things more ad-hoc. But what if you wanted to build an automated process to load up data from an on-premise Oracle Database? You won’t have a GUI available then, so what’s available? …
Oracle SQL Developer and the Oracle Database Schema Service
The Cloud! You may have heard a few things about Cloud services and Oracle over the past few years. What I’m going to talk about today is our Database Schema Service offering. It’s what it sounds like, pretty much. On a kick-butt Exadata box, you get your own schema in a database that we take care of for you. The …
Exporting a PL/SQL Package Just the Way Monty Likes in SQL Developer
Got a quick question from my favorite President today. So basically, Monty was asking how to get a PL/SQL Package Spec & Body to: a single file with a SET DEFINE OFF with the schema prefix in the CREATE or REPLACE Now, there’s more than one way to get one or more objects in the database out to a file. …
30 SQL Developer Tips in 30 Days, Day 8: Use the Cart to Build Deployment Scripts
Let’s say you have some objects you need to quickly create somewhere else. And you want to it such that it can be scripted/scheduled. I am using the Cart right now to build out a demo environment for folks that want to show off some SQL Developer features. For instance, I’m building a ‘shopping list’ to cover things such as: …