The title says it all. Version 4 is now available, replacing v3.3 as the current version. What you need to know: Downloads New Features Release Notes Docs My Two Favorite New Features Comment Only Views If you need to publish or produce a diagram for less technical users, with just an overview of entities or tables, you can now create a version of your diagram with just the names and their comments. It’s just what…
One of our bigger new features for version 4 is our new support for the Database Diagnostic Pack. We have a new interface for your ASH, AWR, ADDM reports, and snapshots, baselines, etc. I want to show you a quick navigation trick today: how to quickly go from snapshots with findings to the actual ADDM findings report. On the DBA tree, click on the Snapshots node. Don’t expand the node, click on the top level…
We recently had to update our printing and PDF technology in Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler. An issue arose after making the switch from Java 6 to Java 7. As is likely to happen, not only we’re we able to largely maintain the current feature set, we we’re also able to greatly enhance it. So we get two nice enhancement with this bug fix. Page Boundary Lines So drag your objects as needed, save, then…
Did you know Oracle SQL Developer allows you to configure Database Auditing and view your audit trails? Well, now you do! This is not new for version 4.0, but the screenshots in this post are from version 4.0. This feature is available under the DBA panel, which can be found on the View menu. I won’t say whether Database Auditing is the right solution for you – I don’t know your requirements, but I WILL…
Got this question over the weekend via a friend and Oracle ACE Director, so I thought I would share the answer here. If you want to quickly generate DDL to create VIEWs for all the tables in your system, the easiest way to do that with SQL Developer is to create a data model. Wait, why would I want to do this? StackOverflow has a few things to say on this subject… So, start with…
Ah the beautiful data model. They say a picture is worth a 1,000 words. And then we have our diagrams, how many words are they worth? So our models describe how the data ‘works’ – whether that be at a logical-business level, or a technical-physical level. Developers like to say that their code is self-documenting. These would be very lazy or very bad (or both) developers. Models are the same way, you should document your…
Another great webcast yesterday – if you’re a paying member of ODTUG you can watch the show for yourself in their archives. If not, you can get my slide deck off of SlideShare. About 150 of you brave souls sat through an entire hour of me talking and then 10 more minutes of Q&A. We went through everything rapid-fire style, so I thought I would post the questions and my refined answers here for your…
We already know how easy it is to view images and plain text with the BLOB editor, yes? But what if I have in my column a bunch of PDFs stored? I want to see that stuff without having to save the file, finding it, and then opening it. Why can’t I just automatically open it directly from the database? Well, it seems you can. Here’s how. External Editors Step 1: Make sure you have…
A new feature in Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler is the ability to display table and view comments directly in the ERD. So I can go from this: Normal Relational Diagram to Relational Diagram with Comments to Relational Diagram with Comments ONLY Now the cool part is that I don’t have to pick. I can use all three depending on my need. Maybe I need a dev diagram for folks in the know, another diagram…
I’ve been running version 4 for so long, that I have trouble remembering if some features are new to version 4. Well, here’s a simple feature that IS new to version 4 that I think our PL/SQL friends will appreciate. Say that you’re looking at a PACKAGE SPEC member, like a FUNCTION, and I want to ‘jump’ to the BODY implementation of said FUNCTION. Or vice versa, I’m in the BODY and I want to…