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2. Oracle SQL Developer Tips & Tricks Jeff Smith Senior Principal Product Manager

3. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 3 Agenda  A Brief History of the Product  Talk the Tip  Show the Tip  Slides + Live Demo  Questions at the End

4. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 4 Oracle SQL Developer Overview  de facto Oracle IDE/GUI  3,500,000+ users worldwide  Windows, OS X, *NIX  Installed with Oracle Database  MOS via DB license

5. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 5 SQL Developer Release History  Project Raptor (2005) ~ Oracle SQL Developer v1.0 (2006)  Version 1.5 (2008)  Version 2.1 (2009)  Version 3.0 (2011)  Version 3.1, 3.2 (2012)  Version 4.0 (2013)

6. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 6 Support for Other Oracle Database Products  Times Ten  Data Miner  XML DB  Spatial & Graph

7. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 7 SQL Developer Data Modeling Included for free, also available as a separate download/program Strategy and Analysis Relational Database Design Data Type Star Schema Physical Multidimensional ERD DFD Logical Reporting Import Models Domains

8. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 8 1. Configure Your Preferences  Make things look nice  Disable unused extensions  Automatic can be ‘bad’  I like ‘more’ grids

9. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 9 2. Recall Previous SQL via the Keyboard Fires off of View > SQL History (F8)

10. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 10 3. Format Query Results Directly to CSV, XML,...  Add Comment  Execute via F5 (Script)  Comment labels match grid export formatter labels  ONLY works in SQLDev

11. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 11 4. Drag & Drop Multiple Tables to Worksheet

12. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 12 4. Drag & Drop Multiple Tables to a Model  Shift, Select, Drag, Drop  OR Ctrl+Select, Drag..  Ctrl walks the dependency tree  Preview DDL, save, export, etc

13. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 13 5. Viewing PL/SQL Output (Include Ref Cursors)

14. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 14 5. Don’t Like the Tree? Open a Schema Browser  Right-Click on a Connection  Drop Down Controls for  Schema  Object  Same Functionality as Tree

15. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 15 6. Ctrl+Click, Shift+F4, Object Search to Quick Open an Object  Hold down Ctrl...  Mouse over object text...  CLICK to open object editor OR SHIFT+F4 OR View > Find DB Object

16. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 16 7. Extend SQL Developer With Extensions  Write your own (XML + SQL)  Check for Updates  Pay $-$$  Free ones too!

17. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 17 8. Excel Stuff  Export data to Excel  Import from Excel to table  Existing  Build New One  CSV Exports are Faster

18. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 18 9. See What SQL #SQLDev is Generating Switch nondebug to debug in sqldeveloper.conf

19. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 19 10. Split Editors | New Editor Tab Groups Right Click in the Editor Tab, split gives you 2 independent views of the editor, New Tab Group lets you see multiple editors at once

20. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 20 OTN – SQL Developer – Forums Forums – By Example Tutorials By Example Tutorials – My Tips & Tricks Blog My Tips & Tricks Blog DownloadDownload the Developer Days VirtualBox Image! 11gR2, SQLDEV, APEX, APEX Listener, Times10, OEM and more! SQL Developer Resources

21. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 21 Cliff’s Jeff’s Notes  Customize Preferences Customize Preferences  Recall SQL History via keyboard Recall SQL History via keyboard  Script Output in CSV, HTML,... Script Output in CSV, HTML,...  Drag ‘n’ Drop Tables to Worksheet Drag ‘n’ Drop Tables to Worksheet  Drag ‘n’ Drop Tables to Model Drag ‘n’ Drop Tables to Model  PL/SQL Output PL/SQL Output  Schema Browser Schema Browser  Ctrl+Click, Shift+F4, Object Search Ctrl+Click, Shift+F4, Object Search  Extensions Extensions  All of my #SQLDev Posts :) All of my #SQLDev Posts :)

22. Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 22 Open World Sessions IDSessionTimeLocation 8891SQL Developer and Oracle Database 12cTues 12pm*Golden Gate B 8890Creating RESTful APIs with Application Express ListenerWed 10:15am*Golden Gate C2 8893Implementing Data Redaction with Data ModelerWed 11:45pm*Golden Gate C2 8894Faster Oracle Database Migrations with 12cWed 5pm*Golden Gate C2 8928Collaborative Development and Building with SQL DeveloperThurs 2pm*Golden Gate C2 10029Performance Tuning with SQL DeveloperTues 3:45pm*Salon 3/4 10012What’s New in SQL Developer 4.0Tues 5:15pm*Salon 3/4 10030Data Modelig 101: Oracle SQL Developer Data ModelerWed 1:15pm*Salon 3/4 10031Developing REST for On-Premises or the CloudWed 5pm*Salon 3/4 10047Oracle Database 12c Features with SQL DeveloperThurs 3:30pm*Salon 3/4 *Marriott Marquis

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