Oracle SQL Developer Product Manager steps you through the ins and outs of creating interactive reports. In a few clicks plus a little SQL code, you can quickly generate spreadsheets and charts - click through to related records, export to Excel or PDF, and much more.

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2. Oracle SQL Developer
All About Reporting
Jeff Smith
Senior Principal Product Manager
Jeff.d.smith@oracle.com
@thatjeffsmith

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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

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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)
REPORTS WERE
HERE

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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

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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)

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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

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Visual Aids

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Canned Reports
 Oracle provided
reports
 You can’t edit them,
but you can copy them
to a User Defined
Report

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User Defined Reports
 YOU supply the
SQL
 YOU define how to
display the results
 Can be saved &
shared (XML)
More on this
later

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Parent/Child - Binds
1. Define Master Report
2. Add Child Report
3. To LINK data from
master to child, BIND
the data

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Charts, 50+ types to choose from in v4

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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

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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

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Report with Prompt(s)

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Drill Down Reports
 Call a related report
 Avail from Context Menu

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Trick #1: Code Actions Into Your Reports

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Trick #1: Edit the XML – Add Some Code

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Trick #2: Multi-level Reports

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Smarter People Than Me Have Built Some Cool
Reports
 Share/Get reports on the Exchange
 Get this report from @ba6dotus

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Sharing Reports
 Save your folder to XML
 Make it available
 Download/save
 Open in SQLDev
 Preferences > Third Party
Extensions > Reports

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Reports + Command Line Interface = HTML

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The Tips in Blog Format
SQLDev's Best Kept Secret: Reports
Multi-Level Reports
Adding Custom Actions
Child Reports
More On Charts
Command Line to HTML Reports

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