In a previous episode, I showed how quickly you can REST enable your Oracle Database tables and views. And I took a second or 3 to show how to create a module in SQL Developer’s REST Development panel, which allows you to have a RESTful endpoint served by a SQL statement which will bring your data back as JSON. Today I want to take another 30 seconds to show how to add a :BIND to…
We have a script execution directory setting in SQL Developer…but what about our new SQLcl command line utility? That was a question posed to me this morning. My answer was..well, let me show you my answer. 152337505867edc76fcb5db_000000 Now you can see why: My prompt is what it is My output is formatted nicely My script is able to be found In Case This is All New to You… SQLcl is a new take on SQL*Plus…
View – DBA – Security – Auditing A user asked how to use SQL Developer to audit user XYZ. And to be honest, it’s not really set up to work that way. You define operations or objects you want audited. Any user that does XYZ to object ABC will get logged. There’s an exception to this – you can setup SYSDBA users to be audited. This will grab the SYSDBA-level type operations that happen. Check…
Hopefully you’ve heard about the new SQL*Plus we’re building. And hopefully you’ve heard about the new REPEAT command we put into it yesterday. Here’s a quick example of how to build a little ‘monitor’ in just 2 commands, a total of 5 lines of code. The SQL 152337505867edc76fcb5db_000001 So run that, make sure you like the formatting, and the data of course 
Then to turn that into a refreshing report, run this: SQL>repeat 100…
I don’t like deleting blog posts just because they’re old, or no longer true, but this one came before we made this SO MUCH SIMPLER. Please read this post instead. TL/DR? You can now just say SET DDL STORAGE OFF if you want to set the metadata transform bits We’re getting much closer to having Oracle SQL Developer version 4.1 ready for release – which includes SQLcl, our new command-line interface for Oracle Database.…
Question: How can I make SQL Developer display the number of rows returned by a query? Answer: Execute the query, and fetch all the rows. But I’m not seeing it! and fetch all the rows. This part is important. Execution using ctrl+enter executes statement, and returns the FIRST ‘fetch’, by default of 50 records. First Fetch Last Fetch Warning: Rant ahead! …Until All Rows Are Read – there’s one or more proceses on the server…
You can save query results or any other grid in SQL Developer as a PDF. You don’t get much in terms of saying how the generated PDF should look – Said PDF file: But I have some important info in here, and it should look a bit nicer. Save Your Query As A Report And then format your report, using the PDF properties. You can set a customer header and footer, define the fonts to…
As we get nearer to releasing our next update for Oracle SQL Developer, there are a few FAQ’s I’d like to answer. When IS version 4.1 going to be available? Soon. Right NOW, actually. Will there be a Windows download available that includes a JDK? Not today, but there will be a 64-bit bundle available soon. Why are you making us run Java 8? Because Java 6 and 7 are old, and Java 8 is…
How to add common columns to your tables or entities and/or tables in SQL Developer Data Modeler.
Is there a way for SQL Developer to generate a DROP statement when exporting the DDL for a table? Yes. The drop preference will be applied when generating the DDL for scripting purposes, but not for the table editor. So to get the table CREATE DDL script with a DROP TABLE command, right-click on your table, and send the ‘Quick DDL’ to a worksheet, clipboard, or file. There’s also a ‘Cascade Drops’ preference, which is…