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2020-08-09

2020-08-09

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Oracle

Formatting SQL Scripts in a Directory Tree with SQLcl

Introduction Oracle’s SQL Developer can format code in any worksheet and PL/SQL editor. The formatter is highly configurable and the default formatting results are becoming better with every version. Oracle’s SQLcl is a command-line tool. It’s a stripped-down version of SQL Developer and is known as a user-friendly alternative for SQL*Plus. But […]

2020-06-07

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Oracle

utPLSQL for SQL Developer 1.2 – What’s New?

Today I released an update of the utPLSQL extension for SQL Developer. In this blog post, I explain the changes in the latest version 1.2. These are the new features: Download the latest version from GitHub. Debug Test Now you can run one or more utPLSQL tests with the PL/SQL Debugger. To […]

2020-04-26

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Oracle

Syntax Highlighting With SQL Developer

Introduction A customer asked me if it is possible to show unused identifiers in SQL Developer. Since there is no PL/SQL compile warning for that, you might be tempted to say no. But you can always use PL/SQL Cop for static code analysis. Guideline G-1030 deals with variables and constants and guideline […]

2020-04-13

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Oracle

Formatting Code With SQL Developer

Introduction I started using SQL Developer in 2013. Back then version 4.0 was the latest and greatest. But the capabilities of the formatter were disappointing. In 2017 Oracle released version 4.2 with a new formatter and has been improving it ever since. Version 19.2 brought us dynamic JavaScript actions within the parse-tree […]

2019-12-13

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Oracle

Constants vs. Parameterless Functions

Do you use parameterless PL/SQL functions in your queries? Did you know that this may cause performance issues? In this blog post, I explain why parameterless functions can be the reason for bad execution plans in any Oracle Database. I recently had to analyze this problem in a production system and thought […]

2019-07-06

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Oracle

Running utPLSQL Tests in SQL Developer

Introduction In November 2017 Jacek Gebal asked me if I could help to integrate utPLSQL into SQL Developer. In January 2018 we released the first MVP. Tests were executed in a new SQL Developer worksheet showing the result in the script output pane. This was easy to implement and it simplified the […]

2019-04-08

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Oracle

Using DBMS_DEBUG in SQL Developer

Do you need to debug PL/SQL units in SQL Developer? You can’t get it to work because someone refuses to open TCP ports between your database and your client? No problem. You can still configure the good old DBMS_DEBUG in your SQL Developer. I know it is deprecated since Oracle Database 12c. […]

2019-02-17

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Oracle

MemOptimized RowStore in Oracle Database 19c

Since February 13 2019 Oracle Database 19c has been available. I blogged about this feature here and here. Time for an update. So, what’s new in 19c regarding the MemOptimized Rowstore? Fast Lookup Works with JDBC Thin Driver I listed 16 prerequisites for the MemOptimized Rowstore in this blog post. The last one – […]

2018-08-05

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Oracle

View-API for JOOQ Application

In this blog post, I show how to build a read-only view-API for Oracle’s HR sample schema. And I will use this view-API in a JOOQ application. This application will fully comply with the Pink Database Paradigm (PinkDB). This means the application executes set-based SQL and retrieves data with as few network roundtrips as possible. […]

2018-07-18

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Oracle

The Pink Database Paradigm (PinkDB)

1. Introduction The Pink Database paradigm (PinkDB) is an application architecture for database-centric applications. It focuses on relational database systems and is vendor-neutral. The principles are based on the ideas of SmartDB, with some adaptions that make PinkDB easier to apply in existing development environments. An important feature of a PinkDB application […]