Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “DDL”
Was helping someone on Stackoverflow this morning, and thought you might enjoy seeing this process as well. PROBLEM: You’ve created a schema script, you’ve generated the DDL, and you ran it on your brand-spankin’ new database. Except. Except, you ran that script as SYS, and your schema scripts didn’t have a SCHEMA defined. So you’ve corrupted your SYS schema!!! How …
The question: We have big database with a lot of stuff and I want to use version control (Git) to manage changes. There are a lot of articles how to do it step by step but one piece is missing for me. Is there standard or recommended way for file structure of whole database (data excluded) and how it can …
You want the create script for a table. You want the create script for ALL of your tables. You want the tablespace. But not the constraints. How do you configure this in our tools? SQL Developer: The Preferences & the Wizards Go to the preferences. Database, utilities, export. SQLcl: SET DDL HELP SET DDL SET DDL And now run the …
This challenge has come up a few times recently for me. Just HOW can a SQL Developer user quickly build out a SQL script for a database user that will include ALL of their privileges, roles, and system grants? I didn’t have a good answer until today. A group of DBAs at a large shipping company exercised my brain just …
We’re getting much closer to having Oracle SQL Developer version 4.1 ready for release – which includes SQLcl, our new command-line interface for Oracle Database. Just a quick reminder in case you’re too lazy to click to that other post: We’ve taken our existing Java based SQL*Plus script engine from SQL Developer, and built a new command line interface that …
Is there a way for SQL Developer to generate a DROP statement when exporting the DDL for a table? Yes. The drop preference will be applied when generating the DDL for scripting purposes, but not for the table editor. So to get the table CREATE DDL script with a DROP TABLE command, right-click on your table, and send the ‘Quick …
I have an employees table. Because it’s 1984, HR has decided we need to know Twitter handles, Facebook pages, and who knows what else. So let’s add it to our table. The dialog by default puts new columns at the bottom of the table. We’ll see why in just a moment. On a side note, we’re not super fond of …
A VERY specific request this morning: I want to generate scripts for all the tables available in schema. I want to generate separate scripts for each table available in schema and each script must contains it’s dependent objects like indexes for that table or if triggers are available the this must include in the script. I am using SQL developer …
One of the more popular features in SQL Developer is the ability to generate the CREATE DDL script for any object. If you open an object editor, the SQL page shows this script. Now, what many of you don’t realize is that the way this code can be generated is configurable. The requests I am most frequently asked to demo …
Data Definition Language (DDL) is used to describe an object in SQL. When you model a table in your relational model using Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler, you are probably very curious as to the code that is being generated to represent that object. You can peek into this code using your mouse – You can right-mouse-click on an object …