Tons of bug fixes, mostly. You can now ask for your working directory via the PWD command. Download is here. Scroll down to the bottom, link is on the right side.
I sometimes get a double-take when I do a blog post or tweet or show a picture of SQL Developer running on my Mac. My Macbook is my personal machine: I don’t normally do live-demo’s on it, but I almost always do my blog posts and screenshots from there. For official webcast stuff and conferences, it’s the old workhorse Win7 machine. And it looks like this for the most part: But you as a user,…
INFORMATION is a new command available in SQLcl, a command-line interface to Oracle Database. 9239551336867270366f00_000000 It’s available for tables and views, of course. Here’s a table. Note that we show the primary key marked with a ‘*’ in the column list. 9239551336867270366f00_000001 And here’s a VIEW. 9239551336867270366f00_000002 You can get the statistics for a table instead of the column comments if you want. Use INFO+ for that. Let’s look at other things you can ‘INFO,’…
I have talked about how to preview BLOBs (Binary Large Objects) as pictures… But someone on Stackoverflow asked how to read a BLOB value if it had text. So I spooled the content of my EMPLOYEES table to a txt file, as CSV, and then loaded that to a table as a BLOB. Then I browsed the table, double-clicked the cell… and voila, the data being stored… Other BLOB posts: setting up external editors (Adobe…
I keep telling people our reporting functionality is probably the most powerful AND overlooked feature in SQL Developer. Today I’m going to share 2 reports that I frequently forget about, that you may enjoy. Finding Unindexed Foreign Keys We all know this should not happen. We all know it eventually happens. Here’s a report to help you quickly find these in your database. You could easily make this a custom report and have a child…
This post is a tease. It’s also a request. Send me your ugly code. In version v4.2 of SQL Developer – to be released in calendar year 2016 – we’ll be offering a new formatter for your SQL and PL/SQL. It’s got a completely new engine under the hood. It’s faster. It’s more efficient. And it sounds really cool too – which is what most gearheads care about most. I’ve taken many, many, many requests…
This trick’s title might actually be longer than the content – so guaranteed QUICK read! Question from a reader: is there a way to alphabetize the columns in the Single Record View? Quick Answer: No… Column order is usually something the application architect or data modeler deemed important, so we always show the column in the order in which they’re defined in the DDL. BUT, when browsing really wide tables, it can be hard to…
I accidentally blogged this…twice. Here’s the other take. This happens more often than I care to admit, sorry. Forgive the inelegant post title – but it gets to the point, and I reckon it might be closer to what folks will be Googling. I get questions from time to time around getting SQL Developer to load or respond quicker. Here’s the advice/tips I generally lead with: Look and Feel You can tell SQL Developer to…
Received this query from a customer this morning… For your information, I’m average in SQL. What I would really like to know is if you can give me some tips regarding the use of Oracle SQL Developer in relation to a completely new database. So, are there functions/tools in Oracle SQL Developer which can help me better understand a new database and it’s structure/tables/etc. I’m not looking for tips regarding creating a new database. I’m…
If you have the Tuning Pack licensed, a couple of things become available for you in SQL Developer: SQL Tuning Advisor Real Time SQL Monitoring If you DO NOT have this pack licensed, then you can disable these features in the SQL Developer UI via the preferences: Semi-Rant: consider giving your developers access to this feature in their development and UAT environments. SQL Developer, EM, or just grant them exec privs on the packages and…