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How to Import from Excel to Oracle with SQL Developer
This question comes up about as frequently as the ‘how do I export data to XLS?’ question. It’s pretty simple once you’ve ran through the process a few times. But you may be here because you’ve never...
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How to Import from Excel to a New Oracle Table with SQL Developer
In a previous post, How to Import from Excel to Oracle with SQL Developer, I covered step-by-step how to import data from Excel to an existing Oracle table. This post shows how to take a spreadsheet...
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An Oracle Designer Feature: Generating Table APIs with Oracle SQL Developer
Have you heard of Oracle Designer? Perhaps you even still use it? Designer incorporates support for business process modeling, systems analysis, software design and system generation. I don’t want to...
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How to See Two Tables at the Same Time in Oracle SQL Developer
Another post from the FAQ files: HOW TO OPEN MULTIPLE TABLES IN SQL DEVELOPER SIMULTANEOUSLY I’m guessing the user is in a hurry, hence the shouting and lack of punctuation. But that’s OK, I think...
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SQL Developer: I’m Looking at a Record, How Do I Edit It?
You’re doing some data clean-up, or maybe you’re just trying to answer a business question for a user, and you notice the data doesn’t look quite right. Name that tune… You want to click in that...
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New and Improved Create Table Dialogs in Oracle SQL Developer 4
Creating a new table in Oracle SQL Developer 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...
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SQL Developer Quick Tip: Reordering Columns
Do you find yourself always scrolling and scrolling and scrolling to get to the column you want to see when looking at a table or view’s data? Don’t do that! Instead, just right-click on the column...
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How to Create Views for All Tables with Oracle SQL Developer
Got this question over the weekend via a friend and Oracle ACE Director, so I thought I would share the answer here. If you want to quickly generate DDL to create VIEWs for all the tables in your...
View ArticleSQL Developer Video Tutorial: Split Those Grids
I’ve talked about how to make your really long sections of code easier to navigate by splitting your editors, but did you know we can make it easier to browse your tables and views too? No? Watch the...
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30 SQL Developer Tips in 30 Days, Day 19: Quick and Clean Table Copies
Quick and clean, what’s that? Consider the following: CREATE TABLE new_table AS SELECT * FROM old_table WHERE 1=2; I call that ‘quick and dirty,’ and I imagine you have used this technique many, many...
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30 SQL Developer Posts in 30 Days, Day 25: Importing Partitioned Tables to a...
We get lots of questions around how to model specific partitioning schemes in Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler, and we do support all of the different ways to part and subpart your data – but today I...
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SQL Developer 4.1: Easier Excel Imports
The most read post on this site? ‘How to Import from Excel to Oracle with SQL Developer‘ – and it has been since I published it almost 3 years ago. People really like Excel. Or I should put it this way...
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Adding Common Columns to Tables via Templates and Transformation Scripts
In Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler, you can create a table in your relational design that stores columns that you want to be added to all of your other tables. Call it, ‘table_template.’ Whatever...
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Generating Table DDL via SQLcl, with and without Storage Clauses
We’re getting much closer to having Oracle SQL Developer version 4.1 ready for release – which includes SQLcl, our new command-line interface for Oracle Database. Just a quick reminder in case you’re...
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Multi-Select Object Actions via XML Extensions
You want to drop, purge 10 tables, and you don’t want to select, click, click, click 10x. What’s a SQL Developer user to do? Well, if you want to live dangerously, you could build a custom extension...
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AUTO vs ‘Bespoke’ REST Services
The Automatic REST features in ORDS are very handy for getting started quickly with providing REST APIs to your data and stored procedures. Give me the data for an employee. Easy. REST enable the...
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What Happens if I REST Enable a table with no Primary Key in ORDS?
When you AUTO-REST enable table in ORDS, we publish a full API for you: the /{id} part is important. We auto find your Primary Key Column and use that to address particular rows (items) in your table...
View ArticleDemonstrating Oracle SQL Developer Web: CREATE & ALTER TABLE
In two previous posts, I have: Introduced Oracle SQL Developer Web and did a quick demo of the Worksheet Demonstrated the data modeler diagramming feature. Today, I want to show you our CREATE and EDIT...
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Scheduling Exports of Your Data Using the Cart
This post won’t show you how to acutally do the scheduling bits – I’m going to assume you know how to use contrab or Windows Scheduler -but I will show you how to get SQL Developer setup so that you...
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Installing Sample Data for Oracle Database
I’ve talked previously on how I’ve used my iTunes, Untappd, and Twitter data to build local tables I can use for blog posts, presentations, and just general fun with SQL and REST APIs. But there’s so...
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