This post will show you how to use the SQLFORMAT command from SQL Developer to transform a query output to CSV. Out of the box CSV Enter the following into SQL Developer, I am using SQL Developer version 18.1 and execute it as a script by pressing F5. and here is […]
SQL Developer Command Line (SQLcl) was introduced in 2016 and is a new Command Line Interface (CLI) for working with the Oracle Database. Why? What about SQL*Plus When compared with SQL*Plus, SQLcl provides a modern way of working on the command line with features such as object completion, inline editing […]
Default Behaviour The out of the box behaviour of SQL Developer is that SQL worksheets share the same connection. What does that mean? If you perform a insert, update or delete in one worksheet without issuing a commit, the result(s) can be viewed in another shared worksheet. This can be […]
Since dbms_utility.format_error_backtrace has been available from Oracle 10g this isn’t another what it ishow to use it post. Instead I will be taking this opportunity to discuss a nuance of dbms_utility.format_error_backtrace that you may not be aware of. dbms_utility.format_error_backtrace reports the call stack back to the exception or the last […]
Oracle 12c introduced the Identity Column. You can find out more about this feature in the new features guide and within the CREATE TABLE documentation. In this article I will use Tom Kyte’s run stats utility to compare the performance of the IDENTITY column with the explicit use of a sequence object. The script […]
