Our developer advocate team, led by Steven Feuerstein of PL/SQL fame, is looking for someone to help spread the good word – about SQL. You can read about the job here, but I thought I would throw in my two or even 3 cents on the matter. I have been evangelizing or advocating or helping – funny how those words are so similar but subtly different tastes in one’s mouth – database development tools for…
Yesterday I made my first presentation ever at the annual Hotsos conference. The topic: “All of the Performance Tuning Features in SQL Developer.” It went pretty well, and I’d like to share those slides now with y’all: Tuning & Diagnostics Features in Oracle SQL Developer from Jeff Smith Easier to Read Autotrace Execution Plans Apparently I said ‘explain plan’ too many times in the session…EXECUTION Plans can be quite big. And the problematic bits generally…
Today’s post is brought to you by a new request to the Exchange this week. They wanted to be able to quickly filter a list of objects without having to open a dialog to do it. For a dynamic browsing of databases with a lot of objects it would be nice to have a textbox where you can filter the current object by name (may be in memory) without using a dialog The filter dialog…
Hi, I’m Jeff Smith. You might remember be from such self-help videos as “Code is Self-Documenting”, and “We Let the End Users Test Our Code.” Thanks for humoring me as I pay tribute to one of my favorite comedians, Phil Hartman as Troy McClure on The Simpsons…but I digress. Starting this week (Wednesday, February 25th!) the Development Tools Team will be hosting a weekly webcast. We will show you things that we think you might…
One of your favorite SQL Developer ‘tricks’ is the ability to pre-format query output. So instead of getting standard output back, maybe you want query results to come back as CSV. But using that requires you to add code to your existing SQLs. Maybe instead it would be cool to set the overall script output format? Now that we have our own SQL*Plus command line interface (AKA SQLcl), the commands that are available there are…
One of the coolest bits of The Matrix, was the ability for the main characters to ‘download’ new skills or objects into their virtual reality. Like Neo could learn Kung-Fu with a simple button click. Today, I want all of you to take the (Oracle) Red Pill, and download your SQLDev knowledge pack. These are things that I see people doing ‘the hard way.’ After just a few minutes or reading (ha ha, more like…
Today’s question: How are invisible columns treated with DESC, INFO and the GUI equivalent? Super quick, an INVISIBLE column is one that the user doesn’t see. They won’t be able to access it unless they know about it. Security by obscurity? No. Tom Kyte shows a few examples of the features usefulness, especially when adding columns to a table and not breaking any SELECT * FROMs in your code. Of course, you don’t HAVE any…
We put out a HUGE update for our new SQL*Plus-style command line interface for Oracle Database. Forget how to install it, or how to connect: see the movie! Things that people really like to do in SQL Developer is pull up the object browsers to quickly see the things that a simple DESC doesn’t show. Things like comments primary keys indexes stats So SQLcl has two new commands for you. INFORMATION (INFO) Like I said,…
Can SQL Developer help me finish my SQL or code? Probably. Here’s a quick showing of what it’s capable of. Note: we enhanced this feature to be a lot more user friendly, so make sure you upgrade to the latest offering and you can do stuff like this. Need more help on the syntax? Click on the keyword in the last two examples, and you’ll be taken to Oracle DOCS syntax pages for that command.…
The Cloud! You may have heard a few things about Cloud services and Oracle over the past few years. What I’m going to talk about today is our Database Schema Service offering. It’s what it sounds like, pretty much. On a kick-butt Exadata box, you get your own schema in a database that we take care of for you. The data dictionary has been modified to make any cross-schema contamination impossible. So you just see…