There really are times your tool is smarter than you are. Thank you #SQLDev Code Insight for listing syntax examples. @thatjeffsmith— Amy Caldwell (@amyccaldwell) August 7, 2014 In fairness to Amy, I don’t think SQL Developer is ‘smarter.’ I think it just has faster access to the Oracle Docs than she does. And SQL Developer won’t ask for help. Amy knew HOW and WHEN to ask for help. Now let’s take a look at how…
Oracle Open World is just around the corner. Every year, tens of thousands of Oracle geeks gather in San Francisco for a week for learning, networking, and more than a little bit of fun and socializing. If you’re going to be there, here’s what you need to know about your favorite development tools team 🙂 Fun Stuff 3rd Annual SQLDev Golden Gate Fun Run 5k On Sunday before all the craziness starts, a few of…
Oh, I so DO love hearing about things that ‘we cannot do.’ This morning I read that in an article that Oracle doesn’t allow you to copy data from Excel and paste directly to a table. AHEM. In the video you see me selecting the cells in the Oracle table editor before pasting the new ones in, but you don’t actually need to do that. Just make sure you start the paste from the first…
Instead of having a column of type VARCHAR2 for a ‘Country,’ you might want to create an COUNTRIES type. Said COUNTRY would have an ID, NAME, and LOCATION. To make things even more fun, LOCATION would also be a custom type of LOCATIONS, having even more attributes/columns. To model these from scratch, you would build them in your design as part of the Data Types Model. You could then take advantage of them in your…
Quick Question: Is there a way in SQL Developer to have the DBMS Output window clear when you execute a block? Quick Answer: CLEAR SCREEN [Oracle Docs] SQL Developer supports many, and soon to be ALL, SQL*Plus commands. CLEAR is one of them. So just add this to the top of your script. When you execute your script, the Output Panel will clear. You’ll see there’s the output from the previous run, then we execute,…
I like to experiment and play with new shiny objects. LinkedIn recently added a blogging platform to their site. I’ve decided to publish a little thing on how to do a better job on writing abstracts for conferences. A few disclaimers: I’m no expert, but I write and review a TON of these Many people tell me they want to submit a talk, but don’t have the experience to do it up ‘right’ I mentioned…
One of the new Database 12c features is the SQL Translation Framework. Developed primarily to help customer migrate their 3rd party applications and databases to the Oracle stack, it also offers application DBAs an opportunity to substitute poorly performing SQL with their own custom SQL – without changing the application itself! Do I have your attention now? Kerry Osborne wrote an excellent post on the topic using a closer-to-real-world example and shows the pl/sql package…
I’m doing a talk on this very subject next week at ODTUG’s KScope14 conference, and I’ll put up the slides on Slideshare after the show, but I wanted to give a quick shout-out to the things you COULD Be using today to get the most out of your models and design experience. Search SubViews Reports Preferred Data Types Propagating Properties DDL Previews Drag ‘n’ Drop Tables from SQL Developer Tree Transformations Navigating Diagrams Design Collaboration…
You backup your databases, right? You backup you home computer – your media collection, tax documents, bank accounts, etc, right? You backup your handy-dandy SQL scripts, right? Ok, now that I’ve got your head nodding, I want to answer a question I get every so often: How can I manage my scripts in SQL Developer? This is an interesting question. First, it assumes that one SHOULD manage their scripts in their IDE. Now, what I…
There’s a nasty rumor going around that you can’t compare database objects and/or code in Oracle SQL Developer. So let’s put that to bed right now. First, here’s how to compare: PL/SQL to PL/SQL or a SQL statement to another SQL statement So now that that’s settled, why don’t we take a look at how to compare a single table, to another table – whether it’s in the same database or a different database. Database…