I’m new to Oracle, and I need a database…help!
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I’m new to Oracle, and I need a database…help!

Taking an Oracle Database class or course? Need to get up and going on Oracle Database really fast, and really easily? Here’s my advice!

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REST APIs and TABLE INSERTs: the Definitive Guide for Oracle
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REST APIs and TABLE INSERTs: the Definitive Guide for Oracle

REST APIs and TABLE INSERTs, everything you need. Bonus: we’ll build a REST API to GET the data, with support for CLOB/JSON, links, and exception handling!

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SQL Developer

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…

SQL Developer

This might sound preachy, but it’s mostly not intentional, mostly. You might really enjoy the flexibility of the PL/SQL APIs the database provides for things like Resource management, the Scheduler, Data Pump. You might even have memorized the PL/SQL function/proc names and arguments required to create a job, or change up a resource. But do you really want to spend that much time typing? So. While I can show DBAs, over and over again, how…

SQL Developer

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…

SQL Developer

Yeah, we support RAC. Note, we did fix quite a few RAC related bugs in the 4.1.1 update. These screenshots were taken with version 4.1.2. When you want to look at historical data in ASH or AWR, you’ll have to specify the Instance number to pull the report from. And the report… Or if you want to browse sessions… You can of course filter on any column in the Monitor Sessions page. To see only…

SQL Developer

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.…

SQL Developer

A question came up on the oracle-l… I am working in SQL developer 4.0. I am comparing my acceptance version of a schema to my production version of the same schema. We did some ‘clean-up’ of old tables and views in acceptance. We want to apply the same changes to production, when we go to prod. How do I tell SQL D to produce a ‘drop’ statement when running a diff and doing the compare?…

SQL Developer

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. 8760945056725e34639a9d_000008 So we’ll look in your home directory, your TNS_ADMIN space,…

SQL Developer

I’ve written a few posts on this subject… Intro to Extensions Adding Synonym Support with Extensions Adding an Error page for Views with an Extension Also, there’s two VERY nice resources for you that I recommend: My predecessor Sue Harper talks extensions in Oracle Magazine Mike Smithers has an exhaustive blog post on adding context menus But. None of these resources detail the object node names for the different types of editors you might want…

Personal Tech

Kellyn (@dbakevlar!) and I have given a couple of talks at the RMOUG Training Days conference about social media, and why Oracle techies should care. We thought it might be nice to focus the talk a bit more and offer it up as a keynote presentation. The crazy folks at East Coast Oracle Users Conference agreed, and we gave it yesterday. People liked it. Even the people serving the food and taking away the dirty…