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…
One of the cooler features SQL Developer offers is the ‘split document.’ If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please take 90 seconds and read this short post first. Ok, well that worked well for pretty much every type of editor in SQL Developer save one – the SQL Worksheet. Let’s say you wanted more ‘type and read’ space for your script or statement, but you also didn’t want to lose your results grid…
This feature is going to be hard to cover in a single post, but I’m going to try anyway. The Reports interface received performance improvements, a few tweaks to make them easier to build, a slew of new charting options, and more visual control to tweak. Oh, it’s also available via the command-line interface. Let’s cover the performance bit first. The first time I try to open a report in ‘Edit’ mode in earlier versions,…
Ugly code, we all write it. I don’t mean bad code either, just hard to read code. Developers who haven’t figured out how to use the TAB and ENTER keys – what’s up with that? — and why is Jeff talking to himself in his Seinfeld voice again? So one of the features in SQL Developer is the Formatter. With a simple right-click (or a Ctrl+F7), you can take your code from ugly to beautiful,…
SQL Developer has had a command-line interface of sorts. The primary use cases were for formatting files and running unit tests. However, we wanted to expand the support to include things like generating Carts and running reports. Instead of just creating a few more one-off interfaces, we kind of started over and built a new CLI from scratch. Random Observation: Developers get very excited when they get to redo something. Rather than call the main…
Being asked when the next version of your product is going to be released is a gut-wrenching question. The community gets excited when a new release is due – who doesn’t like new things to play with? And I’d love to tell everyone when exactly that will happen. But, the very the second I shared THE DATE, I’d be branded a liar. You see, dates slip. And being in a position to not ship product…
So go download it. I’m at the beach this week, not working. Mostly. I’ll be talking about our newest addition to the family, pretty much non-stop, starting next week and stopping when version.NEXT is released. You have plenty to look forward to 🙂 For now, just a few points: We’re not distributing the JDK on Windows 32 bit distributions anymore We now require Java 1.7 JDK by default Windows installs will attempt to auto-find the…