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8,220 Comments

  1. janp Reply

    I want to thank you for keeping afloat the legacy version of sqldeveloper. It’s still the best one available.

  2. David Reply

    In the stand-alone SQL Developer, there is a ‘Toggle ANSI/Oracle Joins’ feature. Is this available in the VSCode extension version?

  3. Ulli Petersen Reply

    Is there a way to get my huge, old sql history from sql developer (legacy) to the sql history of the vs code extension? I found both directories, but the file structure seems to be different and needs to be converted. Is any migration/import script available?

    • thatjeffsmith Post Author

      No, but like you said, you have the two files. You could use an AI/LLM to generate some Python to do that conversion for you.

  5. Daniel Looby Reply

    Finally moving from SQL Developer Version 24.3.1.347 to VS Code with the SQL Developer Extension. And I see your post from Jan. 2026 about canned reports being available. My question is: what about user reports? Will that be added or is there another way to do user reports in VS Code with the SQL Developer Extension?

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