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

Today’s question: can I design a table that takes advantage of the new Temporal Validity feature in Oracle Database 12c? Today’s answer: ‘Yes.’ In a nutshell: Temporal Validity Support lets you associate one or more valid time dimensions with a table and have data be visible depending on its time-based validity, as determined by the start and end dates or time stamps of the period for which a given record is considered valid. Examples of…

SQL Developer

Had a real fun time showing off a series of tips & tricks yesterday, and we did it all in 15 minutes! I can’t afford Mike Rowe or Morgan Freeman for voice over talent, so unfortunately this video has my voice. The things I show in this video, in blog form: SQL History Recall SQL Code Templates Joining multiple tables in a SELECT Query Builder Code Snippets Completion Insight SQL Text Expansion I hope my…

SQL Developer

Someone asked in our forums how to format their code the way they want it. Specifically, they have code like so: 4379335126742932d1ee52_000003 They don’t want this: The user doesn’t want the first predicate on the same line as the ‘WHERE’ keyword, and doesn’t want the additional predicate clauses to be on the same vertical position as the WHERE keyword as well. Thankfully there are 2 Formatter preferences that make this easy to fix. So the…

Database Stuff

Working on some cool demos around JSON, ORDS, Oracle Database, JavaScript apps, etc. and I needed to load up a BUNCH of data to play with. Note the ‘other_tags’ column LOOKS like JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). There are JSON standards – should the key name and value strings be double or single quoted, etc. To ID text as JSON in Oracle it needs to pass our test. Also, you need Oracle 12c, specifically 12.1.0.2 (and…

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I love performing my tips & tricks session. No two talks are alike. I frequently update the slides and content to account for new things I’ve learned and new features we’ve added. But. I’ve been delivering this talk going on 4 years now. Should I let my talk at Open World 2015 be my last hurrah of this topic for awhile? Maybe do more talks on Oracle Cloud, REST, data modeling, reporting, tuning, database administration,…

SQL Developer

This is one of the features I showcased in a webcast yesterday – looking for a particular column definition in your relational model? We make that easy in SQL Developer. And, after you find all of these columns, you can quickly change them, all in one fell swoop. Ctrl+F in a model to open the search. Toggle to ‘Advanced.’ Set your search area and criteria. Hit the ‘Search’ button. Review the results, save as a…

SQL Developer

You do your job. You take the requests from the customers, and give them to the engineers. Wait, that’s me. Your job is probably something more like, you write SQL and PL/SQL, you build databases, you create reports, forms, and applications, you keep all of this running, you make it work, and you make it ‘fast enough.’ For much of your work, you live in SQL Developer. You are probably doing these types of things:…

SQL Developer

I’m at the beach! But if you desire fresh SQL Developer-themed content, then you are still in great shape. Check out these blogs: The Data Warrior AKA Oracle ACE Director Kent Graziano Heli from Finland AKA Oracle ACE Director and published author Heli Helskyaho Kris Rice Colm Divilly Barry McGillin Not Enough? I have a YouTube Channel with SQL Developer videos, because reading is boring. Moving pictures are so 1894. I have a SlideShare channel…

SQL Developer

We updated the Early Adopter offering of SQLcl today. Go get it. But first, I’m assuming you’ve heard of SQLcl? If not – Read the slidedeck, watch the movie. We’ve put in a ton of enhancements and even more bug fixes. And Kris showed off a new feature today that mimic’s our SQL Developer grid preference for displaying NULL ‘values’… Make null values stand out #sqlcl pic.twitter.com/kBubvKHrUD— krisrice (@krisrice) June 16, 2015 But what I…

SQL Developer

Most folks know they can filter their list of Tables. But did you know you can set a global filter across your entire connection? It’s pretty basic, but also pretty powerful: So how would this be useful? Maybe for your project or program module, you have all of the objects starting with the same prefix. You can now filter your database objects to just that module or application feature. These are database side filters -…