So you’ve been working on your data model, and you’re wondering how far ‘out of whack’ it is with the production or development database instance. Sometimes folks manage to compile changes into the database, bypassing your design process and rules. If you’re wondering how to compare 2 models instead of your model with the database, read this. So your question is basically, show me what’s different. You just need to decide what version of the…
Love vi? Prefer emacs? Want the power of the 80’s added to Oracle SQL Developer? You can do that via our External Tools feature. And you can even have SQL Developer throw over your open file into vi, edit it, save it, and refresh the buffer in the worksheet to reflect the file changes. Here’s how. Install vi I went and grabbed vim, Windows 7 x64 to be exact. Then in SQL Developer I accessed…
The end goal for many users of Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler is a a nicely formatted, easy to read diagram. Diagrams are composed of two primary components: Tables or Entities Relationships Today’s post is all about how to manage the display of the relationships. How can I move the lines around? You might not like the default anchor point positions of the relationship lines. You can easily move these, but there’s a slight ‘trick.’…
There were more than a few questions I didn’t get a chance to answer in last week’s webcast with @ODTUG, ‘Data Modeling 101 with Oracle SQL Developer.’ If you’re a member of ODTUG, then you can watch or download the webcast. If you’re NOT a member, you can still sign up to attend KSCOPE13 in New Orleans and watch my session live along with a few hundred others. So anyways, on to one of those…
Today’s Question: Does anyone know of an editor (or program) that will match beginning and ending parentheses in sql and highlight an ending paren that is missing? It just so happens that I do know of such an amazing editor or program 🙂 I’ll let the pictures do the talking for me this afternoon: Matched Parens Missing Parens Next question?
Today’s Question: How do we prevent Oracle SQL Developer from dropping the grants/privileges when modifying a view. While using SQL Developer we modified a view and once saved it removed all of the user access previously set up for the view. This did not previously take place when using… Ugh. That doesn’t sound good at all. Let’s drill into this to see what’s happening. This problem was fixed for version 4.0 of SQL Developer. See…
I love it when I get product and technology questions from our users. More often than not, it leads to me citing a blog post on the subject, or even better, inspires new writing material. And that’s the case for today’s post: Is there an easy way to fake the search tool into getting all the tables in a design so I can export the column comments for everything? The CSV export does not appear…
Technical folks have a tendency to assume everyone is familiar with the words, abbreviations, acronyms, etc. that they causally throw out in conversations and the written word. This is one of many things that can intimidate or dissuade the new folks from being able to participate in the conversation. I don’t want that to happen here, so I’ve compiled a short list of words, terms, and phrases that might help you navigate the available materials…
I’m frequently asked about books for SQL Developer. There are a few out there, with the most obvious example being from former Product Manager Sue Harper. I love books, and I’m a voracious reader. But books pose a few problems in the techie space: they are out of date the day they are printed they can be cost prohibitive – lots of pages and a small audience folks go to Google for answers now However…
Yes, another ‘Top 10’ list is here! Yes, it’s lazy. But, I’m all about lazy, and just because it’s lazy and overdone, doesn’t mean it has no value. If you’re new here or if you have a hard time catching up with all of your favorite bloggers and news outlets, here are my most popular SQL Developer posts, based on traffic, of 2012: 1. How to Import from Excel to Oracle I’m not surprised this…
