Oracle SQL Developer product manager Jeff Smith shares his top 10 tips for boosting productivity and saving time while working with the Oracle Database IDE.

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Oracle SQL Developer
Tips & Tricks
Jeff Smith
Jeff.d.smith@oracle.com || @thatjeffsmith
Senior Principal Product Manager
Database Development Tools Group
Oracle Confidential – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted

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Improve
application
developers
experience
 A Little History
 Talk the Tip
 Show the Tip
 Questions As We Go!
 Take notes or borrow mine at the end…
Agenda

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Oracle SQL Developer
 FREE Oracle Database IDE/GUI
 Windows, OS X, *NIX
 More than 3,500,000 users worldwide
 My Oracle Support available via your DB license

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SQL Developer Data Modeler
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

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 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)
Release History

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 Automatic can be annoying
Disable:
Open Object on Single Click
 I like my data to stay put
Enable:
Show query results in new tabs
1. Configure the Automatic Stuff

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 Adjust delay as
comfortable
 Suppress automatic
suggestions if too many
‘hits’
 Turn off completely and
use ctrl+spacebar
 Tweaked in v4.0.2
1B. Show the Automatic Completion Stuff

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

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 Add Comment
 Execute via F5 (Script)
 Comment labels match grid
export formatter labels
 ONLY works in SQLDev
3a. Format Query Results Directly to CSV, XML, etc

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3b. Copying Grids WITH Column Headers

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4a. Drag-n-Drop Objects to Editor

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 Shift, Select, Drag, Drop
 OR Ctrl+Select, Drag..
 Ctrl walks the dependency
tree
 Preview DDL, save,
export, etc
4b. Drag-n-Drop Objects to Model

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5. Viewing PL/SQL Execution Output (RefCursors)

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

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

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 Create your own
object actions
 Extend the object
editors
8. Extend the product with XML+SQL

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 Export data to Excel
 Import from Excel to table
 Existing
 Build New One
 XLSX Exports in 4 are faster
9. Excel Stuff

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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
10. Split Editors & New Document Tab Groups

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Customize Preferences
Recall SQL History via keyboard
Script Output in CSV, HTML, ...
Drag ‘n’ Drop Tables to Worksheet
Drag ‘n’ Drop Tables to Model
PL/SQL Output
Schema Browser
Ctrl+Click, Shift+F4, Object Search
Copying Grids w/ Column Headers
XML Extensions
All of my #SQLDev Posts :)
The Tips in Blog Format