Quick post today. If you want to do something, but can’t remember the keyboard sequence, or can’t find the button, try opening the Quick Action panel. It’s available under the Tools menu. It offers a few features. You can search. You can see the keyboard shortcuts. And you can activate the feature immediately by double-clicking on the item. Like, I want my line numbers. Maybe you forgot you could right-click in the gutter. Or maybe…
I’m running a week long poll on Twitter. After Google, where do you go for Oracle help, first? Please answer, then RT. If 'other', please specify in your RT.— Jeff Smith 🥃 ☜ (@thatjeffsmith) October 20, 2017 The problem with Twitter is that you’re limited to only 140 characters, so I’m afraid I failed to adequately word the question. My intent is to see where you go to ASK for help…literally. In the form of…
Customer Question: How can I open an unshared worksheet using just the keyboard? Ctrl+Shift+N on an existing worksheet is the easy answer. Customer Followup Question: But, if you’re currently ON an existing unshared worksheet, this won’t work. Then, you need to hit ALT+F10. Jeff, What is an Unshared Worksheet? An unshared worksheet is a SQL worksheet that has a dedicated database connection behind it. These come in handy when your database connection is busy doing…
A quick look at use the :body bind variable for grabbing the contents of your HTTP PUT or POST body on a REST API to insert a BLOB to an Oracle table.
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…
I have 1,500 rows I need to shove into a table. I don’t have access to the database, directly. But my DBA is happy to give me a HTTPS entry point to my data. What do I do? Let’s look at a Low-Code solution: Oracle REST Data Services & Auto REST for tables. With this feature, you can say for a table, make a REST API available for: querying the table inserting a row updating…
Don’t have direct access to your Oracle Database, but do have Oracle REST Data Services? Your Java apps can make JDBC connections via our mid-tier with our REST Driver! Here’s an example with SQLcl.
We’ve just released version 17.3 of Oracle REST Data Services – as an Early Adopter (BETA). Go Download ORDS 17.3 Now. There are 2 major new features, and this post is about one of those: Swagger/OpenAPI style JSON for /metadata_catalog/ calls. Wait, why should I care about REST? The Movie Screenshots for Those that Can’t do YouTube at Work It’s fairly simple. Navigate to the /metadata-catalog/ URI for your RESTful Service. Then copy this {…JSON…}…
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…
Think building REST Services for Oracle Database is hard? Tooling around SQL Developer, browsing data, and thought to yourself, that would make a great Web Service? Now, you can quickly publish the query behind a grid to a new or existing ORDS Module. Just right-click! (well wait a second, you need ORDS installed and configured for your database. And the user/schema should be REST enabled too.) Which brings up this dialog… …add it an existing…
