oracle sql developer: 3 features you're not using but should be

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Oracle SQL Developer:Three Things You Should be UsingBut Probably Aren’t

Jeff SmithSenior Principal Product [email protected]@thatjeffsmith

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Oracle SQL DeveloperHistory

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 Edtior Enhancements


Thing #1: REPORTS


That Panel You Look at But Never Click On?

Routinely ask the same questions, run the same queries?

Everyone, right? Yet only about 15-20% of users take advantage of the reporting feature


What is a Report?

1+ queries which back grids,

output panels, or charts

Defined & ran via SQLDev

A Parent/Child report – the ‘top’ record drives the ‘bottom’ report(s)


Basic Report Features

Define report once, run against any connection

Grid output can be sorted, filtered, exported – just like a query

Optionally prompt user for values/binds

Optionally drill down into other reports

Render HTML (basic, 3.0 standard only)

Export to PDF

Also available via Command Line Interface > HTML


Canned Reports

Oracle provided

reports

You can’t edit them,

but you can copy them

to a User Defined

Report


User Defined Reports

YOU supply the

SQL

YOU define how to

display the results

Can be saved &

shared (XML)

More on this later


Parent/Child - Binds

1. Define Master Report

2. Add Child Report

3. To LINK data from

master to child, :BIND

the data


Visual Aids


Charts, 50+ types to choose from in v4


Defining Charts and Graphs Live preview your chart

during design time

Provide a connection to

supply REAL data

Tell SQLDev what data

to feed to the charts


Prompt User For Inputs

Just like SQL, you can use

binds ‘:’ or substitution vars

‘&’, ‘&&’

Once defined in query you

can customize prompts in

Binds panel


Report with Prompt(s)


Trick #1: Code Actions Into Your Reports


Trick #1: Edit the XML – Add Some Code

http://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2014/04/how-to-add-custom-actions-to-your-user-reports/

http://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2014/04/how-to-add-custom-actions-to-your-user-reports/


Trick #2: Multi-level Reports

http://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2012/09/grandparent-parent-child-reports-in-sql-developer/

http://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2012/09/grandparent-parent-child-reports-in-sql-developer/


Smarter People Than Me Have Built Some Cool Reports

Get this report from @ba6dotus

http://ba6.us/SQLD-Archived-Log-Heat-Map-v4

http://ba6.us/SQLD-Archived-Log-Heat-Map-v4

http://www.twitter.com/ba6dotus


Sharing Reports

Save your folder to XML

Make it available

Download/save

Open in SQLDev

Preferences > Third Party

Extensions > Reports


Reports + Command Line Interface = HTML


Thing #2: PL/Scope


Extra Info on your PL/SQL…


Starting with Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1), a new view, DBA_STATEMENTS, reports on the occurrences of static SQL in PL/SQL units. It provides information about the SQL_ID, the canonical statement text, the statement type, useful statement usage attributes, its signature, and location in the PL/SQL code. Each row represents a SQL statement instance in the PL/SQL code


Thing #3..4..5: Connection Folders, Extensions, Templates


Have you ever seen this thing called a ‘folder?’


Select connection(s)

Right – Click

Add to Folder


GitHub Examples

Extend the UI with Just XML or Java

https://github.com/oracle/oracle-db-examples/tree/master/sqldeveloper/extension/java


Code Templates – Less Typing, Fewer Mistakes


Thanks!

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