An overview of Oracle's IDE support for PL/SQL - debug, compile, format and more.

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PL/SQLAll The Things
In Oracle SQL Developer
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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whoami
 NOT Steven Feuerstein! (nor Bryn)
 a database tools/IDE geek since 2001
 thatjeffsmith.com
 Product Manager for
 SQL Developer
 SQLcl
 SQL Developer Data Modeler
 ~ Oracle REST Data Services

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Improve
application
developers
experience
 SQL Developer, In a Nutshell
 The Show!!!
 Talk the Feature
 Show the Feature
 Questions As We Go!
 Take notes or borrow mine at the end…
How this session works…

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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

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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 Web/4.2
 Full Web Version for DBaaS
 Ships w//12cR2
 Data Guard, RAC, Sharding
 SODA CLI in SQLcl

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The Core of
Your IDE
Bad Movie,
Great Poster

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Setup/Config in
5 Minutes
 Fonts
 Line #’s
 Insight
 Formatter Rules

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Snippets & SQL Code Templates
 Drag And Drop or
 Keyboard Activated
 ‘Program In’ your frequently used bits of code
Click here to see the animation

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Colors
After you pick a good
font, customize the way
identifiers, keywords,
syntax errors, etc. are
displayed in your code
editors.
Dark background? Don’t
forget to change your
Caret Color from Black
to something else.

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Formatter
 Major improvements for v4.2
 Also available in SQLcl

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Get a Code Block
 Invoke with keyboard (ctrl+spacebar) or
 Drag and Drop (from tree to worksheet)

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Split, Full Screen, Float, Doc Tab Groups

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Ctrl+Click Nav & Code Search

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Quick Outline
 quick ‘n’ easy
nav of your code
 hide the conn
panel if you want

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COMPILE

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Don’t Forget to talk about IDENTIFIERS, Jeff… (PL/Scope)
 collect metadata on your
PL/SQL
 MUCH faster than
searching ALL_SOURCE
 find where your code is
declared, invoked,
referenced and more

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Do I look good in this code?
 Ask the PL/SQL engine
to ‘FAIL’ your slow code
 Or at least enable
PL/SQL Warning
Messages!

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Compiler Options, Warnings & Errors

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Stand Up Fight…
…or just another bug hunt?

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DBMS_OUTPUT
 use the panel OR
 SET SERVEROUTPUT ON

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The Debugger
 I have an ENTIRE presentation for the debugger
 CRAM SESSION!

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The Debugger
 requirements
 jdwp/DEBUG CONNECT SESSION
 ACL in 12c
 compile FOR DEBUG
 features
 watches
 breakpoints
 call stack
 step into
 external debugging

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Just Demo the Thing Already

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Click to see Animation

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Doc Stuff PL/DOC Support and More, right click on
connection, ‘Generate DB Doc…’

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And All the Rest
 Profiler
 Unit Testing
 Source Control
 Compiling Invalid Objects

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Unit Test
 Requires a single DB Repos
 Minimal coding
 StartUp & TearDowns
 Code Coverage Reports
 CLI for automation testing

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Source Control
 Subversion & Git (out of the box)
 Clients for doing source inside of SQL Dev
 You can deploy a local SVN using SQL Developer
 SVN is also used by Data Modeler for its repository
 Automatic Versioning of local files (no repos required)

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