Reviewing my timeline, I came across this gem from Franc. I hate seeing SQL with keywords in uppercase and identifiers in lowercase. identifiers are case sensitive. Not keywords.— Franck Pachot (@FranckPachot) February 7, 2017 Franck isn’t alone – a lot of people hate it when their code doesn’t look the way they want it to. Many folks know about our formatter, and how to use it to get their IDENTIFIERS UPPER-CASED. But did you know…
A friend, let’s call her ‘Helen’ for the sake of this post, texted me the other day, wondering why she had all these dozens/hundreds (?) of files in her Windows home directory. She was confused. Where did they come from? Were they safe to delete? I asked her what they were called, and the filename sounded VERY MUCH like what she would have named her SQL Developer connection for a particular database. Now, it might…
Let’s say you have some files, stored as BLOBs, in your database, and you want to make them available via REST. So of course you install Oracle REST Data Services, and now you have two options: REST Enable the table or Deploy a custom RESTful service With the first option, I get an ‘automatic’ REST endpoint for my resource, which in this case is my table that has the BLOB, but I don’t want or…
Remember this fancy do-hickey? It’s the Instance Viewer. We introduced it as a new feature in version 4.1. For version 4.2, we added this – the Top SQL panel. We ask the database every 10 seconds what the most expensive query by CPU is. Maybe that’s a bit too aggressive for you? What if you only wanted to ask every…10 minutes? You can do this. You’ll want the Instance Viewer to be open and running,…
Dealing with a complex data type? Say, XML? Or, a nested table? If you want to see a ‘flat’ view of the data for that bit or a row when browsing a data set that contains that TYPE of data, you’ll want to check this preference. Using the code sample from OraFaq – thanks folks! – here’s what I mean. But, if we double-click on the cell… And after that click… If we ran this…
Someone on the Forums (yes, we read and respond!) noticed they couldn’t add Bytes or Time to their plan displays in Oracle SQL Developer. So we just made all of the columns available now, even if a few them might not make sense, i.e. TEMP_SPACE, OTHER. Preferences – Database – Autotrace/Explain Plan New things highlighted/boxed… So let’s look at a plan from V$SQL_PLAN…a la hitting this button – For AutoTraces you can also ask to…
Happy 2017! Here are your 10 favorite posts from last year. 1. Exporting Multiple Tables to Multiple Excel Spreadsheets Want 6 tables’ worth of data to go to single Excel file? Or one table per file? Here’s how to do that. 2. Oracle SQL Tuning Advisor and SQL Developer Own the Tuning Pack? Have SQL Developer? You should be using that then. BONUS POST: Viewing your automatic SQL Tuning Advisor Job Reports. 3. Can Oracle…
Tons of bugs fixes based on your feedback, especially with the formatter. A few more changes with the formatter: we added more preferences for more flexibility we let you submit code to ‘shape’ the formatting preferences automatically we exposed the brains of the formatter so you can do pretty much whatever you want An example of the formatter ‘by example’ I’ll talk about the formatting ‘gut’ being exposed in a later post. But we did…
JSON – it’s the new whiz bang. JavaScript has taken off, and you don’t need to take my word for it. And with JavaScript comes JSON. There are so many libraries on GitHub that are about turning data into really slick web and mobile applications. We have our own set of libraries available – have you heard of Oracle JET? So JSON is here for awhile. What can you do with it? Well, you know…
When I make jokes about copying and pasting code from StackOverflow or Github, I’m not really joking. But in this case, it’s OK. Because, I’m copying and pasting code from OUR GitHub project, AND my boss wrote the code. A question came in, and it’s come in a few times, but here’s the most recent variant: @Rumtis no way – you’ll need to write your own custom formatter with the SCRIPT (js) command— SQLcl (@oraclesqlcl)…
