Let’s say you have a schema you want to reverse engineer and generate some docs. Lo and behold, the developers used foreign keys! But…there are so many of them, I can’t see the forest for the trees. So how do we make this simpler? Well, our developer for the Data Modeler showed me this trick: In his words: when use …
AUTO vs ‘Bespoke’ REST Services
The Automatic REST features in ORDS are very handy for getting started quickly with providing REST APIs to your data and stored procedures. Give me the data for an employee. Easy. REST enable the schema. REST enable the table. DO a GET on /ords/schema/table/id. But…I don’t want a ‘null’ in my JSON collection for value pair “commission_pct.” What’s an Oracle …
On Running Oracle Scripts with Relative Paths
A customer ‘ambushed me’ – how dare they!?! – at the conference today, needing help getting their scripts to work. So something like this: And the way the customer wants to run scripta.sql (which calls scriptb.sql) So, where is SQL Developer going to look for scriptA? And when it gets to the @child\scriptb.sql? We can call scripts.sql using @c:\users\jdsmith\desktop\parent\scriptA.sql But, …
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, …
What’s Wrong With My Code? We Try to Help You
I see questions like this on StackOverflow and related websites like, ALL THE TIME: I have some code, what’s wrong with it? Something I wish I could do, other than physically hold the person’s hand, is show them how our IDE tries to point them in the right direction of their syntax issues. But since I can’t do that, I’ll …
Oracle REST Data Services: GitHub all the Examples
You can now file bugs, sorry – submit Issues, for me on GitHub 🙂 What We’re Doing The intent is to build a nice library of How-To’s for ORDS. I’ve started with a section on PARAMETERS. ords-demo-parameters Build scripts to demonstrate working with parameters in your Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) RESTful Services. This will demonstrate how to: Read a …
All of Your SQL Developer Google Questions
What are people Googling out there, when it comes to SQL Developer? Well, Google predictive text makes that kinda easy to find out. I’m going to address these questions, but we need to address the biggest problem – without context of the actual question, I have to assume or guess what the ACTUAL question is. But, I will go for …
Using Proxy Connections in Oracle SQL Developer
A relatively new feature, Proxy User Authentication allows you to connect using someone else’s credentials. Or as Oracle-Base puts it: Since Oracle 9i Release 2 it has been possible to create proxy users, allowing you to access a schema via a different username/password combination. This is done by using the GRANT CONNECT THROUGH clause on the destination user. So I’m …
Querying the Oracle REST Data Services for your Oracle Database
So you’ve installed ORDS, you’ve REST enabled a schema, and you’ve started publishing some RESTful Services. Now, how do we go about seeing what’s what? You could browse… You could search… Or you could query the data dictionary! I’m going to look at USER_ORDS…stuff. We have _MODULES, _TEMPLATES, and _HANDLERS – most of what you’ll want is there. SELECT name, …
Scripts – on Spooling and Output to Screen in Oracle SQL Developer
When executing scripts in SQL Developer, the amount of output we display on the screen is LIMITED. By design, we only show you 5,000 records from any query, and we limit the amount of output in total for a single script execution to 10,010 rows. This is controlled here: I know what you’re thinking… Why? A few reasons, but practicality …