Here’s an 8 minute video walk through of using INFO and DESC in Oracle SQLcl. You can decide what works better for you – hey, maybe you’ll decide to use both! INFO shows more info INFO+ shows more info with more stats You can INFO a package OR a package.procedure Enjoy! PS – I made this on my new rig …
Building a Web Service for Uploading and Downloading Files: The Video!
This video is a bit longer than most, but I’ll show you how to deploy a web service to: get a list of files from a table – stored as BLOBs get individual file details download/render the file using the mime type how to upload a file how to generate LINKs in your {json} responses how to set the HTTP …
Video: What’s New in Oracle SQL Developer for 2018
This was one of my 3 sessions at Open World last week. None of them were recorded, but I figured you might find this one interesting, so I ran through the slides again here. If you search this blog for things like ‘18.1’, ‘18.2’, and ‘18.3’, you can find all the blog posts I put together showing some of these …
Where to get help with Oracle SQL Developer
I was inspired by Joel’s post on this subject for APEX so much, that I thought I’d copy his idea. So you’re reading this post on my blog, so you found me – maybe probably via Google. Or you walked into my mom at the grocery store. Either way, so glad you got here. But did you know, there are …
3 Tips for Working with PL/SQL
I’ll show you 3 cool tips and tricks for working with PL/SQL in SQL Developer…in under 7 minutes! In-code navigation – click into where your objects are declared Test Query – see if your SQL is gonna work BEFORE you compile it Using the Code Outline For those that can’t do video, basically you can Ctrl-Mouse-Hover Navigate ANYWHERE Not just …
Video: Explain Plan, Execution Plan, AutoTrace, and Real Time SQL Monitoring
15 minutes overview of how to use these features in Oracle SQL Developer: Get an Explain Plan Customize the display of the plan Get a cached plan Use DBMS_XPLAN Compare Plans Use Real Time SQL Monitoring Use AutoTrace. And if you want an awesome video, MUCH more in depth about how to read a plan, then I suggest this from …
VIDEO: Importing from Excel Table
It’s a bit long at 17 minutes, but I go through the process of: creating a new table based on an Excel/CSV defining the columns checking the column names checking the column definintions is the column wide enough? defining DATEs running the export fixing errors saving the scenario so you can run it on demand Remember, if you prefer to …
Demonstrating Oracle SQL Developer Web: CREATE & ALTER TABLE
In two previous posts, I have: Introduced Oracle SQL Developer Web and did a quick demo of the Worksheet Demonstrated the data modeler diagramming feature. Today, I want to show you our CREATE and EDIT TABLE dialogs. While I aim for 10 minute videos, I had to go into overtime, and came out at 13 minutes. But as a bonus, …
Demonstrating Oracle SQL Developer Web: the Data Modeler
In this 10 minute video, you get: super quick recap of the Worksheet building a new diagram moving stuff around, changing the colors generating DDL generating a data dictionary report saving and searching diagrams This was my 50th post on YouTube. If you like what you see, be sure to subscribe there so you don’t miss any updates. Your subscriptions …
Announcing Oracle SQL Developer Web!
We are now live in the Oracle Cloud with Oracle SQL Developer Web. Wait, what’s SQL Developer Web? It’s a browser based version of Oracle SQL Developer powered by Oracle REST Data Services. If you are a Database Cloud Service customer in the Oracle Cloud, it’s rolling out now to those subscribers. If you’d like to know more and see …