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 …
Trick: Getting All the Privileges (Grants) for a User
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 …
Generating Table DDL via SQLcl, with and without Storage Clauses
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 …
Generating Object DDL Scripts with Drop Statements
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 …
Adding Columns to a Table in SQL Developer Data Modeler: Honor Column Order?
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 …
How to Generate Schema DDL Scripts with One File Per Table using SQL Developer
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 …
Oracle SQL Developer: Configuring Object DDL Scripts
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 …
DDL Script Previews in Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler
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 …
Visualize Your DDL Scripts
Data models sure are handy. They tell a story – how does the information get stored as data? Just what is a ‘customer?’ Sometimes though our applications die and only leave legacy scripts behind. Or maybe you are a DBA and someone has given you a set of scripts to create some new objects in your database. You ask them …
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