Oracle SQL Developer is being used around the world. I see evidence of this in Indonesian tweets, OTN forum questions written in Spanish, talking to people at the larger tech conferences, and looking at our website Google Analytics. For just this site, here’s where people have visited from in 2014: If I look at the Browser Language configuration for site visitors, it’s 72% English, with the next top language being French at a little more…
Oh, I so DO love hearing about things that ‘we cannot do.’ This morning I read that in an article that Oracle doesn’t allow you to copy data from Excel and paste directly to a table. AHEM. In the video you see me selecting the cells in the Oracle table editor before pasting the new ones in, but you don’t actually need to do that. Just make sure you start the paste from the first…
I’m on vacation this week – so in order to keep you folks entertained, I thought I would spotlight a few of our developers who also blog. Kris Rice Kris is one of the two original developers of SQL Developer. He’s also my boss, but don’t blame him for me. Lately, he’s been into all things cloud – especially taking our Oracle REST Data Services to the next level. But, he’s also into time saving…
Quick Question: Is there a way in SQL Developer to have the DBMS Output window clear when you execute a block? Quick Answer: CLEAR SCREEN [Oracle Docs] SQL Developer supports many, and soon to be ALL, SQL*Plus commands. CLEAR is one of them. So just add this to the top of your script. When you execute your script, the Output Panel will clear. You’ll see there’s the output from the previous run, then we execute,…
A VERY specific request this morning: I want to generate scripts for all the tables available in schema. I want to generate separate scripts for each table available in schema and each script must contains it’s dependent objects like indexes for that table or if triggers are available the this must include in the script. I am using SQL developer 4.0.12 version. I tried with export option but separate scripts are generating for index,triggers,tables etc.…
One of the new Database 12c features is the SQL Translation Framework. Developed primarily to help customer migrate their 3rd party applications and databases to the Oracle stack, it also offers application DBAs an opportunity to substitute poorly performing SQL with their own custom SQL – without changing the application itself! Do I have your attention now? Kerry Osborne wrote an excellent post on the topic using a closer-to-real-world example and shows the pl/sql package…
Sometimes you need more memory. Here’s an example: you want to model a database that has 1500 tables in it. What would that even look like? If you zoom out far enough… Now, ‘large’ is a subjective term. But lets put it this way – if you’re dealing with more than several hundred tables or entities – that’s larger than most other designs. Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler, and the modeling extension that runs inside…
You backup your databases, right? You backup you home computer – your media collection, tax documents, bank accounts, etc, right? You backup your handy-dandy SQL scripts, right? Ok, now that I’ve got your head nodding, I want to answer a question I get every so often: How can I manage my scripts in SQL Developer? This is an interesting question. First, it assumes that one SHOULD manage their scripts in their IDE. Now, what I…
Tnsnames.ora [DOCS] is a configuration file for SQL*Net that describes the network service names for the databases in your organization. Basically, it tells Oracle applications how to find your databases. This post is just a quick overview on how to get SQL Developer to ‘see’ this file and define a connection. There’s only a single prerequisite for having SQL Developer setup such that it can use TNSNAMES to connect: You have somewhere a tnsnames.ora file…
What is Oracle SQL Developer? Well, according to this document on OTN… What is SQL Developer? Date: May 2014 Oracle SQL Developer is the Oracle Database IDE. A free graphical user interface, Oracle SQL Developer allows database users and administrators to do their database tasks in fewer clicks and keystrokes. A productivity tool, SQL Developer’s main objective is to help the end user save time and maximize the return on investment in the Oracle Database…