2017-03-17

plscope-utils – Utilities for PL/Scope

PL/Scope was introduced with Oracle Database version 11.1 and covered PL/SQL only. SQL statements such as SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and MERGE were simply ignored. Analysing PL/SQL source code without covering SQL does not provide a lot of value. Hence, PL/Scope was neglected by the Oracle community. But this seems to change with […]
2017-02-06

PL/SQL Cop for Trivadis Coding Guidelines Version 3.2

The PL/SQL Cop tool suite supports the new Trivadis PL/SQL & SQL Coding Guidelines 3.2. Download the new versions from the Download section. So, what’s new? Numbering and Categorisation Scheme The guidelines have been renumbered, extended, categorised by severity (blocker, critical, major, minor and info) and assigned to one or more SQALE characteristics (changeability, […]
2016-09-25

Bitemp Remodeler v0.1.0 Released

I’ve been working on a flexible table API generator for Oracle Databases for several months. A TAPI generator doesn’t sound like a real innovation. But this one contains some features you probably have not seen before in the TAPI generator and hopefully will like it as much as I do. In this post, I will […]
2016-06-28

Trivadis PL/SQL & SQL Coding Guidelines Version 3.1

The latest version 3.1 of the Trivadis PL/SQL & SQL Coding Guidelines has 150 pages. More than 90 additional pages compared to version 2.0. Roger Troller did a tremendous job in updating and extending an already comprehensive document while making it simpler to read and easier to understand. In this post, I will […]
2016-06-26

PL/SQL Bulk Unwrap

406 days ago I released PL/SQL Unwrapper for SQL Developer version 0.1.1 and blogged about it. With this extension, you can unwrap the content of a SQL Developer window. Time for an update. With the new version 1.0 you can unwrap multiple selected objects with a few mouse clicks. In this blog […]
2016-05-22

How to Integrate Your PL/SQL Generators in SQL Developer

About three weeks ago Steven Feuerstein tweeted in his tip #501 a link to a generator for the WHEN clause in DML triggers on Oracle Live SQL. Back then I refactored the generator for oddgen – the Oracle community’s dictionary-driven code generator – and published the result on Oracle Live SQL as well. Some […]
2016-04-26

PL/SQL Cop Meets oddgen

Until August 2015 it never occurred to me that one could use non-PL/SQL code within conditional compilation blocks. Back then we discussed various template engine options as the foundation for oddgen – the Oracle community’s dictionary-driven code generator. oddgen supports nowadays the in-database template engines FTLDB and tePLSQL. Both tools may access templates stored in PL/SQL packages using a […]
2016-04-23

Monitoring PL/SQL Code Evolution

Last week I presented the PL/SQL Cop tool suite to a customer in Germany. While preparing the demo I had taken my first deeper look at the PL/SQL Cop SonarQube plugin, written by Peter Rohner, a fellow Trivadian. I was impressed by how well the additional PL/SQL Cop metrics integrate into SonarQube and how easy […]
2015-05-17

Introducing PL/SQL Unwrapper for SQL Developer

I’m using from time to time the free service Unwrap it! or Niels Teusink’s Python script unwrap.py to unwrap PL/SQL code. Recently I’ve been confronted more with wrapped code since a customer is about to migrate to a new banking platform which is using wrapped PL/SQL code extensively. While investigating migration errors we experienced that […]
2014-04-30

Trivadis PL/SQL & SQL CodeChecker for SQL Developer Released

A half a year ago Trivadis released a command line utility to scan code within a directory tree for guideline violations of the Trivadis PL/SQL & SQL Coding Guidelines Version 2.0. This tool is perfectly suited to process millions of lines of code, but an integration into Oracle SQL Developer was missing until now. […]