Pennsylvania Banner User Group Webinar: Oracle SQL Developer Tips & Tricks

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Oracle SQL Developer
For the HiED Banner Audience
Jeff Smith Helen J Sanders
Senior Principal Product Manager Assistant Director,
jeff.d.smith@oracle.com Student Competency Center
@thatjeffsmith Applications Development & Support Services
http://www.thatjeffsmith.com helen.sanders@temple.edu
@helenjsanders
http://www.helenjsanders.com

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• “Computer Programmer” since 1997
– started at Temple in Computer
Services that year
• Temple Banner Student system went
live spring of 2011
• Using SQL Developer, writing PL/SQL
and SQL since then
• How I met Jeff...
whois Helen

Improve
application
developers
experience
 SQL Developer overview, boring slides
 On to The Show!!!
 Talk the Tip
 Show the Tip
 Questions As We Go – Zoom Chat
 Take notes or borrow mine at the end…
How this session works…

 FREE Oracle Database IDE/GUI
 Windows, OS X, *NIX
 More than 4,500,000 users worldwide
 My Oracle Support available via your DB license

Oracle SQL Developer, Major Feature Areas
 PL/SQL IDE
 SQL editor
 GUI for browsing and managing database objects
 Ad Hoc reporting
 Database Design & Data Modeling
 Database Administration
 3rd Party RDBMS Migrations to Oracle
 Deploy and Administer Oracle REST Data Services
 REST Enablement of the Database
 Command Line Interface

Oracle SQL Developer
History
Project Raptor
 Early Adopter on OTN
2005
SQLDev 1.1
 File Based PL/SQL editing
 Reports
 Ships with 11gR1
SQLDev 1.5.x
 Localizations -
Japanese, Spanish,
Italian, German, French,
Portuguese, Chinese, &
Koreans
 Ships with 11gR2
SQLDev 1.0
 SQL Worksheet
 Procedure Editor
 The world takes notice!
SQLDev 1.5
 Schema Copy/Diff/Export
 Thick connections
 Versioning
 TimesTen
SQLDev 2.1
 Unit Testing
 Data Modeler Viewer
 Unshared SQL Worksheets
2007 201020092006
SQLDev 3.0
 Full Data Modeler
 View > DBA
 SQL Tuning Advisor
 Query Builder
2008 2011 2012
SQLDev 3.1
 New Database DIFF
 PDF Reports
 RMAN
 Data Pump
2013
SQLDev 3.2
 APEX Listener / ORDS
Support
 Database 12c Support
 Schema Service Support
SQLDev 4.0
 Java 7
 ASH/AWR/ADDM
 Color Coded Connections
 Command line Interface
SQLDev 4.0.3
 Optimized Code Insight
 Oracle Big Data Appliance
2014 2015 2016
SQLDev 4.1
 ORDS Included/Full GUI
 instance Viewer
 SQLcl
 Copy PDB to DBaaS
 Larry live demos PDB relocate @ OOW
SQLDev/SQLcl 4.2
 SQLcl PROD
 SQL Dev Early Adopter
 Real Time SQL Monitoring
 TOP Report
 Formatter & Other Editor Enhancements

Helen Tip: Organize Connections
 Each Schema
in its own folder
 Colorized user
accounts

Helen Tip: Set Editor Preferences
 Enlarged Font –
sans serif type
– much easier to
read!

Pennsylvania Banner User Group Webinar: Oracle SQL Developer Tips & Tricks

 Adjust delay
 Suppress automatic
suggestions
OR
 Turn off completely and
use keyboard, on demand
Completion Insight, I recommend The Stick!

Helen Tip: Drag and Drop for SELECT
Drag and drop
table name to
build a
SELECT
statement

 Certain
columns can
also be chosen
for the
SELECT, ctrl +
click to choose

 Then drag to
build your
statement.

Insight/Auto-Complete Object Names and Commands
 Just hit <TAB> for help
 Autocompletes on Single Match
 Lists possible matches otherwise!

Helen Tip: Use the Relational Diagrams!

The Decline and Fall of Your
SQL Queries and Scripts

In lieu of clicking through SQL History (F8)
SQL History

2. SQL History Logging
Version 4.1 Updates!

SQL Statement & Script History

I love it when a plan comes
together!!

Query Plans: Get, Read, & Compare

Alias PLAN = Go get me DBMS_XPLAN!!!

PUT
THE
MOUSE
DOWN

7 Clicks to go from Grid to Formatted Export to Output?

 Add Comment
 Execute via F5 (Script)
 Comment labels match grid
export formatter labels
 ONLY works in SQLDev…
& SQLcl 
Format Query Results Directly to CSV, XML, etc

Format Query Results Directly to CSV, XML, etc
Version 4.1 Updates!
 SET SQLFORMAT
 JSON
 ANSICONSOLE

Get your files, whichever way you want them

Custom Formats, just add JavaScript

Have you tried Ctrl+Click?

 Right-Click on a Connection
 Drop Down Controls for
 Schema
 Object
 Same Functionality as Tree
Schema Browser

1. Hold down Ctrl...
…Mouse over object
...CLICK to open object
2. SHIFT+F4 (DESC)
3. Find DB Object
Alt+G on object text
Three More Ways to Open/Browse Objects

Helen Tip: Global Search
 Click the
Search icon
 indicate which
Schema you
want to search in,
and what. Then
click “Go”

 Search results.
 Depend upon
your permissions
 Click to drill
down and see
source (next
slide)

 source – from
search results

Helen Tip: Filter the Users List
How to reduce
the number of
users you see
in the tree view
Filter!

Helen Tip #3: Filter the Tables List
How to reduce
the number of
table you see in
the tree view
Filter!

Helen Tip: Filter the Tables List
Filter by a
wildcard with
‘%’.
Eg: Filter for
all validation
tables, use
STV%

Helen Tip: Filter the Tables List
All tables that
start with “STV”
will display

Split-
•Personality
•Pants
•Editors

Split = ‘mirrored objects’ New Tab Group = View multiple
editors concurrently
Split Editors & New Document Tab Groups

Snippet, Snippet GOOD.
Code Templates…GOLD!

Auto-Replace Now Available (v4.2)

Auto-Replace/Spell Checking in SQLcl
 Uses SCRIPT/JS
 Looks for ‘bad’ text
 Replaces before
sending to JDBC
 Shows corrected SQL
with Output

I’ll Take Potpourri for $200, Jeff

Double the functionality in SQL Developer…
 View Menu
 ‘DBA’
 Adding new
things every
release
 Not JUST for
developers
anymore

Watch Database Activity
 agent-less
 ZERO DB objects
 a ‘fancy’ report
 no history
● no alerts
● drill-downs
We’re making more of
these 

OTN – SQL Developer
– Forums
– By Example Tutorials
– My Tips & Tricks Blog
Resources

Customize Preferences
Recall SQL History via keyboard
Script Output in CSV, HTML, …
Schema Browser
Ctrl+Click, Shift+F4, Object Search
XML Extensions
All of my #SQLDev Posts :)
The Tips in Blog Format

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