PL/SQL All the Things in Oracle SQL Developer

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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

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

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…

 FREE Oracle Database IDE/GUI
 Windows, OS X, *NIX
 More than 4,500,000 users worldwide
 My Oracle Support available via your DB license

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

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

The Core of
Your IDE
Bad Movie,
Great Poster

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

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

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.

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

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

Split, Full Screen, Float, Doc Tab Groups

Ctrl+Click Nav & Code Search

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

COMPILE

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

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!

Compiler Options, Warnings & Errors

Stand Up Fight…
…or just another bug hunt?

DBMS_OUTPUT
 use the panel OR
 SET SERVEROUTPUT ON

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

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

Just Demo the Thing Already

Click to see Animation

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

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

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

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)

Debugger Slide Deck
My PL/SQL Posts
Resources

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