I’m new to Oracle, and I need a database…help!
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I’m new to Oracle, and I need a database…help!

Taking an Oracle Database class or course? Need to get up and going on Oracle Database really fast, and really easily? Here’s my advice!

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REST APIs and TABLE INSERTs: the Definitive Guide for Oracle
ORDS

REST APIs and TABLE INSERTs: the Definitive Guide for Oracle

REST APIs and TABLE INSERTs, everything you need. Bonus: we’ll build a REST API to GET the data, with support for CLOB/JSON, links, and exception handling!

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SQL Developer

Some of you are real fast typers, and don’t need this type of help. However, some of you, no matter how fast you can type, have to deal with column names that are long, hard to spell, and to just work with in general. So let’s say you’re working on a report, and the column order is very specific. Now, you could use the INSIGHT/POPUP feature, but those names come back in alpha order. Or…

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As always our team will be quite busy, with both social and technical activities. And in case you forgot, I’m on the team that brings you: Oracle SQL Developer SQL Developer Data Modeler SQLcl REST Data Services A ton of database service instance console UIs (including the upcoming SQLDev Web) OTN Developer Day VirtualBox Appliance Lots of fun source code, samples, and docs on GitHub Projects I can’t talk about yet The Talks We have…

SQL Developer

You have a schema. Someone else built it. You’ve just inherited it. Now you need to build an application around it. But, tell me more about this schema? No docs? That’s OK, you can build your own! 1. Connect to Your Database, Open a ‘Driving’ Table By driving, I mean one that’s likely to be at the ‘center’ of your business logic. An employees or sales table for example. Now, once it’s open, click on…

SQL Developer

In the year 2000… No, let me start over. IN the year 2017, we have Oracle SQL Developer version 17.2. It started as Project Raptor in 2005. It’s got a pretty wide and deep feature set covering these areas: PL/SQL IDE SQL editor GUI for browsing and managing database objects Ad Hoc reporting Database Design & Data Modeling Database Administration 3rd Party RDBMS Migrations to Oracle Deploy and Administer Oracle REST Data Services REST Enablement…

SQL Developer

Apparently SQL Developer doesn’t look super awesome on some Windows high-resolution displays (Macs are apparently A-OK!) 4 and 5k monitors. But that’s OK – it’s fixed in Java 9, and that appears to work just fine with SQL Developer v17.2. But another question came up – how can I make SQL Developer look…different? There isn't an overall theme for all the parts of the app? I really want everything changed (connections and reports).— PIONTΞKDD (@piontekdd)…

ORDS

I get the impression that many of you have thought about getting more acquainted with our development tools and platforms here at Oracle. But I ALSO get the impression that many of you just haven’t had the time. So, I’m officially inviting you to participate in a series of upcoming webinars I’ll be hosting. How they ‘work’ We’ll use a online conference solution that lets me share my desktop with you. I’ll be doing live-demo…

SQL Developer

Having an extra bit bucket in your tables is pretty easy now in Oracle Database 12c and higher. We offer native JSON support [JSON DOCS] – you can have a free form text column and store anything you want in it. AND, we pretty much give you the full power of the SQL interface to those bit bucket items – pretty neat I think. I’m still big fan of the relational paradigm, and I think…

SQL Developer

Time to download! Mostly bug fixes. the frequent ‘connection reset’ message should be GONE entering text data in a data grid cell and the cursor doesn’t advance should be FIXED having a @ or a ; in a comment in your query should work AGAIN many, many more bug fixes – see the release notes for details SQLcl updated, more bug fixes ORDS 3.0.10 is included, even more bug fixes + Auto PLSQL feature Brand…