Ever wonder what all the red, yellow, and purple marks in your procedure editor are supposed to tell you in the Oracle SQL Developer Procedure Editor? No idea what I’m talking about? This: This is the editor trying to help direct you to where you might have problems, instead of you having to to scroll the text looking for the squiggles. What squiggles, you ask? These: Mousing over the line shows you the Compiler Warning.…
Updated February 2021: I’ve updated this post to reflect the newest edition of this VirtualBox Appliance. If you’re looking for an already configured Oracle Database 19c environment with a database already setup and all the software you need to learn database programming, design, and administration concepts, then look no further! No need to create anything, just download, import, and run a fully functional Oracle Database, complete with sample data and hands on labs. This…
You are using Oracle SQL Developer, and you want to create or open a design in the Data Modeler. How do you GET to the Modeler? Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler is a standalone solution that is also shipped in SQL Developer as an extension. The user interface of the Modeler is folded into SQL Developer. If you are going to be doing just a quick-and-dirty operation on your design, working with SQL Developer will…
On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 – 9am to 1pm PT / 12pm to 4pm ET / 3pm to 7pm BRT, we will be holding a Virtual Developer Day conference. From the comfort of your Internet connection, you can pick from four different content tracks: Big Data for Developers Big Data for DBAs Oracle 12c for the Developer Oracle 12c for the DBA The Oracle Technology Network (OTN) has assembled an agenda of live, moderated sessions…
You’re excited to see that defining triggers and sequences to populate identity columns in Oracle Database is no longer required. You have an Oracle Database 12c instance up and running, and you’re ready to hit the ground running. Wait, what is Jeff talking about? Ok, let’s say I have a ‘BEER’ table. My Primary Key (PD) will be an integer. I want BREWERY #1 to have an ID of 1, and then each new BREWERY’s…
Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler (SDDM) is a free data modeling solution. It supports many types of modeling levels, including: logical relational physical (multi-)dimensional When I present overviews on our database tools, I have this slide that shows what SDDM is capable of: I am not a real data modeler. However, I can fake my way pretty well through Logical and Physical modeling discussions and exercises. When it comes to the dimensional stuff, I tend…
There are many hundreds of interesting blogs in the Oracle Database space to choose from. I’m happy to say that about 300,000 of you spent at least a couple of minutes on my blog in 2013. In case you didn’t have a chance to read all 105 or so new posts, I’ll share with you the highlights. Before you run away screaming, thanks for hanging out with us in 2013 and we look forward to…
2013 has been a big year for us here at Oracle and in the tools group. We saw major updates for both SQL Developer and SQL Developer Data Modeler. For the data modeler, versions 3.3 and 4.0 brought significant feature and platform updates. Both are still free by the way 🙂 I’m still very, very high and excited about the new and improved search feature introduced in v3.3. I’ve blogged quite a bit on it,…
A new version of Oracle SQL Developer has been officially released. Oracle developers, DBAs, and data professionals will find that v4.0 is perhaps our best release yet. Of course, we always say that 🙂 So here’s 10 reasons to go upgrade. 10. Version 3.2 is more than a year old. Version 3.2 was released last November. Tens of thousands (maybe more!) of man and woman-hours have gone into the making of version 4. 9. New…
A few things have changed when it comes to running SQL Developer on a Windows machine. In previous versions, the first thing you’d see when running SQL Developer would be a prompt asking for the location of Java. Turns out, it’s hard for Java applications to run without Java. On Macs and Linux/Unix environments, we don’t prompt for the location of the JDK. The OS tells us where it is. So why not do this…