Oracle SQL Developer Command Line (SQLcl) is now officially available. (Download) Thanks to the many of you who provided feedback and helped us make this ready. We plan on very regular updates, every 60-90 days, so the fun hasn’t stopped. Oracle SQL Developer v4.1.5 is now officially available. You can now drag and drop objects to copy them from one database to another, Oracle or non-Oracle to Oracle (on prem or Cloud), and we have…
Oracle SQL Developer Command Line (SQLcl) is the full name for what we’ve been calling, SQLcl. Have you seen the video? It’s only 8 minutes and will catch you up on just what SQLcl is. Anyways, there’s a ‘new’ command called SCRIPT that I want to show you today. I say ‘new’ because we added this in October of 2015. Stealing from @krisrice… This new command can radically change things you can do in the…
Just what it sounds like – you ask to see LESS data in a grid, and we don’t re-query the database. Instead, we filter only on the client-side. This means it’s FAST. No asking the database to run the query again. This also means you might not be getting the WHOLE truth, or the latest truth. Unless you’ve fetched ALL the rows down to the grid, it’s only going to filter on the data that’s…
I have an UMLAUT table. Pretty simple really… 1565415031681e42c444afa_000004 Looks great in SQLDev, but not so much in SQLcl… Everything is UNICODE by default in Java applications. It’s converted to Unicode coming in and going out… [docs] This is a HUGE advantage in the Java world. We don’t have to do anything special when it comes to supporting Unicode. So what’s happening above? Windows CMD by default isn’t setup to use a Unicode code page.…
As much as I like the Export Comments, or hints… 1565415031681e42c444afa_000005 or the less intrusive SET SQLFORMAT insert… sometimes you just NEED to use the Export feature tied to a grid. Did you know you can pre-select the defaults? For example, if 9x out of 10, you send the output directly to the Worksheet, and if most of the time you work with JSON, then why not set those up? That’s a lot fewer clicks,…
Not to start a religious war, but white space in your code can cause havoc when you’re doing code compares and versioning. Some folks like tabs, others prefer to control how their code looks regardless of the editor’s tab display options. From what I can tell, SQL Developer’s code editors won’t even let you insert a tab into them – they auto-convert a tab into 2 spaces. But, if you’ve pasted tabbed code in, they’ll…
It’s already almost that time of year again. Which means I need to let you know what you can expect from our team at the world’s largest Oracle event – Oracle Open World. Sessions start on Sunday, September the 18th – but the fun with our team starts on Saturday morning. Kris Rice and I will be corralling folks to a scenic bike ride of the Bay lead by PL/SQL Product Manager extraordinaire Bryn Llewellyn.…
I say designing, because I’m going to be talking about how to do this in SQL Developer Data Modeler. And I say Part Two, because in a previous post I showed how to draw a foreign key in your relational design. This post discusses how to control the generation of the foreign key column: to generate or not if generated, how to name it Let’s start by defining the ‘foreign key column.’ If we have…
The PL/SQL team is always reminding me to talk about PL/Scope. And I got to the point where I needed to remind myself, so I added this slide in all of my PL/SQL themed talks. Yet, I have apparently forgotten to blog about it. Oops. [Docs] PL/Scope is a compiler-driven tool that collects data about identifiers in PL/SQL source code at program-unit compilation time and makes it available in static data dictionary views. The collected…
I talked about using the debugger to inspect a collection in PL/SQL using SQL Developer a few years ago. It’s been so long in fact that when Steven asked if I had a post on it, I said ‘no.’ We had gotten a question from a reader on how to look at collections while you’re debugging them. If you want to read about this topic in general, Steven’s article in Oracle Magazine is a great…