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Some of you are real fast typers, and don’t need this type of help. However, some of you, no matter how fast you can type, have to deal with column names that are long, hard to spell, and to just work with in general. So let’s say you’re working on a report, and the column order is very specific. Now, …
In both v4.1.5 and v4.2, you can now select objects from your database tree, and drag them to another connection to have them copied. The source can be: a MySQL, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, Terradata, or other 3rd party supported RDBMS an Oracle Database The destination can be: an on-premise Oracle Databaes an Oracle Database running in the Oracle Cloud …
There’s quite a few things you can accomplish by manipulating and tweaking our data grids in SQL Developer without having to write a single shred of SQL. I’m not going to flood you with 35 blog posts on the subject. But I’ll share a few that will give you an idea, and if you’re interested in the others, use the …
In Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler, you can create a table in your relational design that stores columns that you want to be added to all of your other tables. Call it, ‘table_template.’ Now call the transformation script. Tools > Design Rules & Transformations > Transformations. Before After These are cool, but they don’t belong in my Logical model! So …
Oh, I so DO love hearing about things that ‘we cannot do.’ This morning I read that in an article that Oracle doesn’t allow you to copy data from Excel and paste directly to a table. AHEM. In the video you see me selecting the cells in the Oracle table editor before pasting the new ones in, but you don’t …
I normally don’t blog on Sundays. But I was going through our Exchange, triaging your enhancement requests, and I found one that is ALREADY in the product. Actually I found a dozen or so that are already in the product, but I thought I’d talk about this one in particular. From Describe (Shift-F4) allow “Copy column names to clipboard” like …
Short and sweet post today – let’s say you’ve written a SELECT *, and your query results have some column headers you want to copy out. Yes, you could copy out the result set WITH the column headers, but maybe you JUST want the column names themselves. Note you need to select which column headers you want copied by selecting …
Apologies for slacking on the blogging front here lately. Still mentally hung over from Open World, and lots of things going on behind the scenes here in Oracle-land. Whilst (love that word) blogging is part of my job, it’s not the ONLY part of my job 🙂 So a super-quick and dirty ‘trick’ this morning. Copying Query Result Record as …
There are several ways to get data from a query or a table|view to the clipboard. You know the tried and true, copy and paste. But what if you only want one or more columns, not every column? There are several ways to do this, let’s see if we can’t identify all of them. Write your query to only include …
The Late Show with David Letterman used to have a bit called, ‘Stupid Pet Tricks.’ I quit watching because I prefer his Scottish and funnier future-replacement, Craig Ferguson. But I will take advantage of some Google-Fu to drive some traffic to ye olde blog (can you tell I’m in the UK this week?) So most folks GET copy and paste …