Not able to make my Tips & Tricks talk at the Great Lakes Oracle User Group conference this week? Don’t have the 50 minutes to watch my recorded YouTube version? Can you spare 90 seconds? You don’t even need to turn the sound on. Just watch this GIF. To recap: ALT+G to do a search Use Doc Tab Groups to …
3 Quick SQL Developer Tips to Kick off 2018
I’m in Denver today, to present one of my favorite talks, SQL Developer Tips & Tricks. Since I know most of you won’t be here today, I thought I’d share 3, super-quick tips. I get asked ‘how to do this’ type stuff, all the time. Copying Column Headers with your Data Ctrl+Shift+C Showing Line Numbers Right-click in the gutter, …
SQL Developer: You’re Doing it Wrong [VIDEO]
We tried 15 minute talks at a conference last week, and I think they came out OK. I figured for the folks who weren’t able to come out to the conference, maybe you’d like to see the talk? So here it is. The basic gist of the talk: SQL Dev is a BIG, DEEP tool You don’t have time to …
On Conferences: Time to Put Tips & Tricks to Pasture?
I love performing my tips & tricks session. No two talks are alike. I frequently update the slides and content to account for new things I’ve learned and new features we’ve added. But. I’ve been delivering this talk going on 4 years now. Should I let my talk at Open World 2015 be my last hurrah of this topic for …
SQL Developer Q&A from ODTUG Tips & Tricks Webcast
Another great webcast yesterday – if you’re a paying member of ODTUG you can watch the show for yourself in their archives. If not, you can get my slide deck off of SlideShare. About 150 of you brave souls sat through an entire hour of me talking and then 10 more minutes of Q&A. We went through everything rapid-fire style, …
Questions & Answers from SQL Developer Tips & Tricks ODTUG Webinar
We had a great webinar yesterday with more than 350 people attending. Even tacking on 10 minutes at the end, I didn’t have enough time to answer all the questions (31!) So I’m going to tackle them here in quick order. If you want a more detailed answer, use the search form on your right as I’ve probably covered the …
SQL Developer Trick: Renaming Your Worksheets
After a VNC session with the always brilliant @bamcgill, I now know how to rename a worksheet. So when you open a worksheet, it’s attached to a database connection. The worksheet name is a property, and it defaults to the connection name. So you DO you have a lot of control over the worksheet name. This is the primary reason …
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 …
Top 10 Tips & Tricks for Oracle SQL Developer
Being a short week due to the holiday, and with everyone enjoying their Summer vacations (apologies Southern Hemispherians), I reckoned it was a great time to do one of those lazy recap-Top 10-Reader’s Digest type posts. I’ve been sharing 1-3 tips or ‘tricks’ a week since I started blogging about SQL Developer, and I have more than enough content to …
SQL Developer Incremental Find via Ctrl-E
Incremental find. What is that? It is one of many features in SQL Developer that I have managed to overlook. It has been right there though, staring me in the face. I’m betting that many of you have seen it without really SEEING it, just like I have been doing. Until today that is! Let’s take a look at the …
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