Someone asked, I have this cool report, how do I get the chart out of it? For now I’ve been taking screenshots. So let’s look at how you can get your Report out to HTML (and a PNG.) When I say HTML, I mean you have a SQL Dev report that’s generated by SQL Developer itself. I am NOT talking …
Generating a Data Dictionary Report and Diagram for a SubView
Your relational models can get big. Bigger than the human mind can easily consume. So instead of generating a report of 2,500 objects, you might want to break down your model to smaller chunks, AKA SubViews. So let’s open the reports, which you’ll find on the main File menu. First, we don’t want the main diagram in the report, that’ll …
PLSQL Code Editor Tricks – Preview Code Doc & Test Queries
Someone asked: @thatjeffsmith Great blog! Is there a way to display DB Doc in SQL Developer like in Java IDEs with Java doc while being in Code editor? — Sebastian Köll (@s_koell) December 1, 2016 And here’s the answer – Yes! First, let’s talk about PLDoc, and how it works in SQL Developer. All caught up? Great. Now let’s show …
Using Reports to Print CLOBs
A co-worker asked me for some advice on building a report to view some CLOBs. CLOBs are fun. They let you store an unlimited (basically) amount of text. They’re not as flexible as VARCHAR2s, but they do come in handy. Viewing them in a report can get interesting though. The question came down to seeing a report like this – …
Trick: ‘Pasting’ SQL Developer Exports to an Outlook Message as an HTML Table
You have some data. You want to email it to someone. You don’t want them to have to open an attachment. You want it to be in an HTML-Tabl’ish delivery device. In SQL Developer, write your query. Export to HTML > File. Open Outlook. Start your message. Attach File Point to your HTML File DON’T CLICK ON THE INSERT BUTTON …
30 SQL Developer Posts in 30 Days, Day 30: Getting Your Data to the Web
You have a query. You run a query. Now how can I take that data and make it available in a web browser or application? Export as HTML You can of course export your resultset as HTML using the Grid, right mouse, Export, to HTML. This will give you something like this… Don’t forget the hint! Remember, lazy-dev method: SELECT …
SQL Developer 4.0 and the Command Line Interface (CLI)
SQL Developer has had a command-line interface of sorts. The primary use cases were for formatting files and running unit tests. However, we wanted to expand the support to include things like generating Carts and running reports. Instead of just creating a few more one-off interfaces, we kind of started over and built a new CLI from scratch. Random Observation: …
Using HTML to Mark Up Your Data in Oracle SQL Developer
Looking at data can get tedious. Your eyes start to hurt. Your mind starts to wander. You start humming the theme song to The A-Team. Wouldn’t it be nice if the data you started your day with could be jazzed up a bit? We’ve seen in an earlier post how you can use gauges and hyperlinks in your queries and …
Generating HTML Data Dictionary Reports with Oracle SQL Developer
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that most people who use SQL Developer do not realize it has a fully-baked data modeling tool built into it. It’s not like we hide it, but we kind of hide it. To open the Data Modeler inside of SQL Developer, navigate to the View menu, and activate the Data …
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