EA1 dropped in July. Now here we are a little more than a week before Oracle Open World and we are making Early Adopter 2 of Oracle SQL Developer version 4 available for you to download and provide feedback. There’s two big things you need to know about: About 500 bug fixes Support for ADDM/AWR/ASH Bug Fixes Thank you, thank you, thank you for your feedback on the Forums, Twitter, our blogs, and any other…
You think you know Oracle SQL Developer. And you probably know it better than the average user, especially if you’re a subscriber to this blog 😉 But I’m betting there’s a few key things you’ve overlooked. We’re going to fix that today! Skip Ahead to the Slideshare Version 10. We’re not the new kids on the block anymore. Actually, we can’t sing either, but I digress. What started out as Project Raptor in 2005 has…
You may not spend a lot of time creating tables in your database, but if you are performing that task, you don’t want your tool to slow you down. And while many of you may design your tables in a modeling solution or even code them by hand in a worksheet, there are still some of you out there that are using our Create and Alter dialogs. And that’s what I’m here to talk about…
I recently talked about how you could tell the modeler to use custom classification types for your tables. But, I forgot to tell you where you could find these settings in version 4! Surprise – we moved them. Excellent… Sometimes I think developers change stuff because they’re bored or maybe even because they don’t realize even the smallest change can create lots of angst for the end users. However, in this case the changes were…
We recently covered how to set the classification type of multiple tables in a data model, but today I want to show how to make these easier to identify in your model. I’m also going to show you how to set multiple classification types for a single table – a new feature in v4 of the Modeler. By default, the supplied classification types are assigned a color scheme: If you need more classification types, you…
The new editor framework provides a more interactive and rich experience when replacing text. It’s a very simple improvement, but one that I think will make you feel ‘better.’ I know that’s a subjective measurement, but I’m sticking with it. And something I talked about earlier, double-clicking on a ‘word’ in the editor will auto-find and highlight all occurrences of that text. This is then automatically used as the basis of a search and replace…
Someone asked me how to model a table as an IOT in Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler. But before I answer that question, we shoudld spend at least a second on just what an IOT is. It’s an ‘Index Organized Table.’ The storage is organized by the index, versus say the default behavior of a heap structure. Or as the docs put it: index_org_table_clause Use the index_org_table_clause to create an index-organized table. Oracle Database maintains…
Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler version 4 was released as an Early Adopter just last week. You can go download it here and read about the new features here. A snippet of those new feature release notes… Masking Mask templates can be defined and used in definition of columns with sensitive information. Support for REDACTION policy definition on table and column level. Support for Transparent Sensitive Data Protection (TSDP) policies: Sensitive types can be created…
One of our more popular features is ‘DB Doc.’ It’s like JAVADOC for the database. Pick a connection, right-click, and go. It will generate an HTML documentation set for that schema. For version 4, we’ve introduced a few enhancements based on user requests. That’s right, you asked, and we listened. Added support for Package Bodies Added parallelization option for larger doc sets Enhanced the HTML formatting a bit Select Your Object Types and Generation Options…
You may have noticed a few posts lately where I’m talking about new and improved features in SQL Developer version 4.0. You may have also been too busy to read all of them. For shame! But that’s OK. I’ll be doing a webcast with ODTUG on Tuesday, August 20 at NOON Eastern Time. When I’m asked to describe ODTUG, I go with “Well, ODTUG used to stand for ‘Oracle Developer Tools User Group’, but it’s…