Hurts, doesn’t it? And tools make it so easy to do this. Even though your tool probably reminds you where you’re at, your brain often just starts running after the next task. And usually your fingers are even a few steps ahead of your brain. And then you get into trouble. All because you’re trying to get your work done as fast as possible. Wouldn’t it be nice if your favorite tool could give you…
Have you heard of Oracle Designer? Perhaps you even still use it? Designer incorporates support for business process modeling, systems analysis, software design and system generation. I don’t want to get you too excited, because this technology is being phased out. You can read the official statement of direction here, but but going forward we’re recommending you use JDeveloper, Fusion, and our other middleware technologies to build your applications. What I want to get to,…
Your relational model may for a data warehouse or star schema where you need to define a table as being a dimension or fact. Or maybe you’re like my friend who asked me this question last night: If I’m looking at about 90 Dimension tables which all have the name prefaced by “Dim” how can I assign them all to be of the “Dimension” Classification Type? You could do this slow-by-slow… Select Table and Right…
I loved Fred Rogers. He helped raise me. Nicest guy ever? So what does he have to do with Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler? One word, ‘neighbors.’ I got a good question from a new user yesterday: Is there a quick way to add all the tables (to a subview) directly related to a specific table? First, you know what a SubView is, yes? It’s what we call a ‘sub model’ – or a subset…
We had a great webinar yesterday with more than 350 people attending. Even tacking on 10 minutes at the end, I didn’t have enough time to answer all the questions (31!) So I’m going to tackle them here in quick order. If you want a more detailed answer, use the search form on your right as I’ve probably covered the topic you’re asking about in more depth and detail. If you missed the ‘show’ and…
Yes, it’s true. Some people export their data to formats other than Excel. Another popular format is ‘delimited,’ where fields are defined by a delimiter. The most famous of these is CSV, a comma separated values file. So your data can be read by another program quite easily because it knows where one field stops and the next begins. A quick example: But I Don’t Want to Use Commas! Ok, well no need to shout.…
An interesting question popped up on the forum, and I thought I’d share my ‘answer’ with you folks. I figure this is something a lot of folks do several hundred times a day – pulling up a frequently used database objects in the browser. The question: Is there a way to define a shortcut to take me to a Table, package, etc of interest? I have many DBs defined in SQLDeveloper and it’s a pain…
Software development never really stops. The development cycle is truly a circle. Once a release is ready, the developers don’t go on break awaiting orders. There’s always the next sprocket to build or widget to refactor. And so comes one of the best parts of my job: helping figure out what those widgets and sprockets will be. And while we don’t comment on new features or release dates of our products, I will give you…
When I’m doing demonstrations of Oracle SQL Developer, I’m frequently asked about our support for datatypes like XML, BLOBS, Timestamp, etc. When I’m put on the spot like that, I have a tendency to forget that I already have tables setup for this. So I end up writing a query to find a table that has a specific datatype. And that just … sucks. So I’ve written a report to do this for me. AND…
The Oracle SQL Developer family currently has two ‘SQL Developer’ branded products: Oracle SQL Developer Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler Oracle SQL Developer is the database IDE and Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler is our dedicated data modeling solution. Where it gets interesting is that the entire Data Modeler product also runs inside of SQL Developer. When I do demo’s of building quick ad hoc models in SQL Developer, I’m frequently asked to ‘back up’…