Oracle SQL Developer: 3 Features You're Not Using But Should Be

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Oracle SQL Developer:
Three Things You Should be Using
But Probably Aren’t
Jeff Smith
Senior Principal Product Manager
Jeff.d.smith@oracle.com
@thatjeffsmith

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/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

Trick #2: Multi-level Reports

Smarter People Than Me Have Built Some Cool
Reports
Get this report from @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

Code Templates – Less Typing, Fewer Mistakes

Thanks!

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