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

Code searching isn’t new for version 4.2. It’s not even new for version 4.1, or v4.0…but what IS new, is that some folks consider the SQL behind their VIEW objects to be ‘code.’ So, for version 4.2, you can say, search my PL/SQL source AND search the SQL behind my views. You’ll notice there’s an option to add wildcards around your search term for the ‘Code’ category – that’s useful when searching object names in…

SQL Developer

Today is the day! We have new releases of both SQL Developer and SQL Developer Data Modeler. I’ve been talking about v4.2 tweaks and enhancements for awhile now, and here’s the full list if you want to go back and review. I’d like to share a few highlights though. But first, FULL STOP. Go click that big button to the top and left. Ok, let’s continue. Formatter I’d like to thanks the entire community for…

ORDS

Can you? YES. Absolutely, even. Go from your app to your Oracle Database resources via REST (GET|POST|PUT|DELETE), and your responses come back via JSON. No APEX required. And even better, you can have ORDS up and running in less than 5 minutes. Ok, but what about ORDS & APEX? If you want to provide a RESTful API for your Oracle Database, then ORDS is for you. But, when I do talks on ORDS, I ask…

ORDS

In the current issue of Oracle Magazine, you can read all about how to get started with the Auto REST feature of Oracle REST Data Services…or in other words, how to automatically make Tables and Views available via REST APIs. A table or view is very easy to consider as a resource in the REST model. What ORDS does is allows you to interact with them via GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE – without writing…

SQL Developer

One of the major new features in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 is Analytic Views. An analytic view is a type of view that can be used to easily extend the content of a star schema with aggregated data, measure calculations and descriptive metadata, and to simplify the SQL needed to access data. Analytic views layer a hierarchical/dimensional model over data. Analytic views are defined over the dimension tables and fact table of a star…

Oracle SQLcl new commands, find and which SQL Developer

You have a new version of SQLcl to download this morning. Lots and lots of bug fixes – again, thanks everyone in the community for providing feedback so we can make continuous improvements. A few things of note: Two New Commands They do pretty much what you’d expect. You’ll also notice something new on startup/connects if you’re using a ‘local’ LOGIN.SQL What’s a ‘local’ LOGIN.SQL? It’s a LOGIN.SQL file that we find in your current…

ORDS

Update: This post was refreshed on October 14, 2021. I have a very simple, and not very elegant stored procedure. 2833226456630222724840_000008 Sidebar: Like, I’m not a professional developer. The WHEN OTHERS THEN bit…that’s BAD CODE, don’t do that. You should do something, more like THIS. This stored procedure takes in a name and salary. It inserts a record to my table, and returns the new employee’s ID and the new total number of employees in…

SQL Developer

PL/Scope is one of my favorite features. It answers SO many questions. Where am I declaring this, where am I calling that, when am I referencing something? And, I can get this information automatically, without hitting the big, fat SOURCE data dictionary views. I’ve talked about this previously… …BUT, PL/SCope didn’t help me with tracking the SQL I used in my PL/SQL. That is, it didn’t until 12cR2. Starting with Oracle Database 12c Release 2…