The search feature in SQL Developer is whiz-bang. You’re using it, right? But what about at the command line? I’m guessing many of you just pluck away at ALL_ or DBA_OBJECTS. Some of you may have written some custom scripts. But, what if you burned that into SQLcl? You can of course do this with the ALIAS command. You can say, ALIAS XZY=query; And then access the query by just executing XZY. AND, you can…
When you AUTO-REST enable table in ORDS, we publish a full API for you: We auto find your Primary Key Column and use that to address particular rows (items) in your table (collection.) But..what happens if you don’t have a primary key? 620848106976bae6270fa_000001 REST enable that… 620848106976bae6270fa_000002 And now let’s ‘GET’ the table. So let’s try that… Hmmm, that ‘%2’ part doesn’t look right to me. That’s actually ‘%2B’ which is a way to escape…
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 developer to do? Code/Roll your own REST Service. The ‘bespoke’ solution took me about 3…
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, we’re going to have a problem. So, you have 2 options. First, you COULD tell…
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 write a quick blog post and help the Google gods can help folks going forward.…
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 value in your GET handler SQL block from the request header Return a value via…
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 going to alter a user, SCOTT, to allow for this. 620848106976bae6270fa_000009 Now, how do I…
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? If you’re using ORDS to build ORDS REST APIs with Database Actions, AKA SQL Developer Web, simply navigate to the REST page under development. There you can find a modules page, and select your REST Module. Browsing ORDS REST Module Templates… You could search using SQL Developer Desktop’s Find DB…
I’ve talked about the Cart a few times. It’s interesting to describe what the Cart is for, because it can be used or so many different things. But in general, it allows you do perform a set of operations against a collection of database objects. In this case I’m going to show you how to export several views and tables to an Excel file. And the rest of this blog post will be done using…
In this 10 minute video I’ll show you: how to open a panel how to move a panel how to reset your desktop if something gets ‘borked’ how to create new desktop tab groups (for docking things) AND how to ‘float’ your doc or panel to a secondary monitor Welcome 2018! Please be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel if you want to keep up to date on the latest video tips and tricks.…
