Doing the math, SQL Developer is officially 10 years old. Or should I say, 10 years young? I remember VERY clearly when this came out. It was seen as a very disruptive move by Oracle – a company for which I did not work at the time, so this is my personal recollection 🙂 It was also not the first developer tool to come from Oracle. But this one had a lot of people excited.…
Updated 25 May 2022 This is formerly a trick. We made this just a simple action of opening the User and going to the SQL panel in the DBA, Security section. If this isn’t working for you, it’s because you’re on an older version of SQL Developer…in which case, read on. The Trick, if you’re on an older copy of SQLDev This challenge has come up a few times recently for me. Just HOW can…
I hope this post isn’t too cheesy. But it’s Turkey-week here in the USA, and the theme demands that homage be paid. So here are 5 features in Oracle SQL Developer that I use all the time, and am truly thankful for. They help me conserve energy, AND they make my job easier. I want to make sure YOU’RE aware of them too. In no particular order, mostly… 1. The Statements Panel I use this…
The Connection Tree and Schema Browser make pretty nifty object navigators. But maybe you want your own custom list of objects. Perhaps you’re working on a project and you only want to see objects that pertain to Project XYZ. And you’re able to ID these objects by a common column ID – or use your imagination and think of some other meta bit or byte. It could look a little something like this: I simply…
I’m always looking for things. I love the ALT+G trick in SQL Developer. But what about the command-line? One of the really nice things about SQLcl is that if you can’t do what you want with the available commands, you can just build your own. That’s especially true now that we have JavaScript support. But this is just plain, straight up SQL. To build your own command, use ‘ALIAS’. 13657987846742b37831cf4_000003 You can probably guess what…
Remember back when Corel first released WordPerfect? Remember how it had like a bazillion keyboard shortcuts, and you needed help remembering them all? No? You probably also don’t remember a world sans e-mail and smart phones either. Oh well. Anyways, we have lots of keyboard shortcuts in SQL Developer and a few in SQLcl. You might need help remembering them. Cue the ‘nerd stick.’ Or at least that’s what I’ve always called these. Maybe I’ll…
You want to drop, purge 10 tables, and you don’t want to select, click, click, click 10x. What’s a SQL Developer user to do? Well, if you want to live dangerously, you could build a custom extension for SQL Developer to do that for you. We tweaked the IDE to allow this in version 4.1.2 – if you’re on any version PRIOR to version 4.1.2, this won’t work. BASICALLY… You can have an item type…
This has been around for a loooooong time. But after a short chat with @oraclebase AKA Tim Hall yesterday, I thought I’d make sure we’re doing things right in the SQLDev tooling. Tim uses it to make very nice, short, and sweet video demonstrations on his YouTube Channel. I highly recommend it. Anyways, back to PAUSE. SET PAUSE ON [DOCS] in sql*plus allows a script to ‘pause’ until you hit ‘ENTER’ for it to continue.…
Start a debug session…step over some code…look at a variable…run to a breakpoint…investigate the data in a PL/SQL table…step into another program…check out the callstack. Just another day in animated GIFs and showing you what SQL Developer is capable of. If you’re curious or want more info, hit the ‘debug’ link at the end of this for all of my debugger posts. Hint, scroll down to just right above where the comments start. Click on…
For those Windows users out there who want both a BASH shell AND a really cool command line interface to Oracle Database – I have good news! We updated SQLcl yesterday to include support for CYGWIN. I have Cygwin64 and Windows 7. We also added a new command, SHOW TNS. This will help you figure out how and where we’re finding your TNSNAMES* files. 13657987846742b37831cf4_000009 So we’ll look in your home directory, your TNS_ADMIN space,…