Mostly SQL Developer Tips & Tricks, Mostly
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 …
We recently (18.2) added a new way to generate execution plans in SQL Developer – we generate a call to DBMS_XPLAN for the SQL ID at your cursor position. DBMS_XPLAN is a package, and one of it’s procedures is ‘DISPLAY_CURSOR’: This table function displays the explain plan of any cursor loaded in the cursor cache. In addition to the explain …
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 …
I have some code… BEGIN give_raises(); END; / I can guess that GIVE_RAISES is a procedure of some kind. But now I want to open it, or ‘go to it’ or ‘step into it.’ And I want to do so without having to pick up my mouse. So I could tell you about the Ctrl+Click trick, but that’s all mouse. …
Ok that title has a TON of buzz and marketing words in it. But, we have the Oracle Cloud. And available there is a service where we take care of your database for you – Autonomous. We make sure it’s up, and that it’s fast. We have 1 autonomous cloud service today and will have and second one coming SOON. …
SQL tuning can be fun. The database gives us MANY things to help with this. There is even a nice set of views that contain everything we need to know about our SQL and their exectution plans. And, we have a really cool PL/SQL package, DBMS_XPLAN for generating reports on our troublesome queries. The not-fun part, is going from a …
So two areas of major performance improvements in Oracle SQL Developer version 18.2: Importing from Excel Using the Query Builder Importing from CSV was generally always pretty fast. Working with Excel consumes a lot of memory, and it took a lot of time to load an Excel file to be imported. Well, it still uses a lot of memory – …
I say ‘our’ because I’m doing this with Scott Spendolini, an Oracle ACE Director in the APEX community. We wanted a podcast of interest to Oracle Database developers. We like each other. We have great stories. Bad/good things happen when we get together. So, we came up with this… We want to post on a regular basis, as fast as …
It’s that time of year again, we have just released updates to all of our tools! Downloads Here: Oracle SQL Developer Oracle SQLcl SQL Developer Data Modeler REST Data Services (ORDS) Let’s Talk about SQL Developer It’s a minor release, no new major features have been introduced. But, we fixed a TON of bugs. And more than several of those …
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 …