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4. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Improve application developers experience  A Little History  Talk the Tip  Show the Tip  Questions As We Go!  Take notes or borrow mine at the end… Agenda

5. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle SQL Developer  FREE Oracle Database IDE/GUI  Windows, OS X, *NIX  More than 3,600,000 users worldwide  My Oracle Support available via your DB license

6. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | SQL Developer Data Modeler Included for free, also available as a separate download/program Strategy and Analysis Relational Database Design Data Type Star Schema Physical Multidimensional ERD DFD Logical Reporting Import Models Domains

7. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |  Project Raptor (2005) ~ Oracle SQL Developer v1.0 (2006)  Version 1.5 (2008)  Version 2.1 (2009)  Version 3.0 (2011)  Version 3.1, 3.2 (2012)  Version 4.0 (2013)  Version 4.0.3 (Sept 2014) Release History

8. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 4.0.3 ‘Trick’: SSH Tunneling  Integrated SSH support  Establish tunnel to machine that can talk to your database listener  User/PWD or SSH Keys

9. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 4.0.3 ‘Trick’: Cloning Objects

10. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |  Automatic can be annoying Disable: Open Object on Single Click  I like my data to stay put Enable: Show query results in new tabs 1. Configure the Automatic Stuff

11. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |  Adjust delay as comfortable  Suppress automatic suggestions if too many ‘hits’  Turn off completely and use ctrl+spacebar  Tweaked in v4.0.2 1B. Show the Automatic Completion Stuff

12. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | In lieu of clicking through SQL History (F8) 2. SQL History

13. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |  Add Comment  Execute via F5 (Script)  Comment labels match grid export formatter labels  ONLY works in SQLDev 3a. Format Query Results Directly to CSV, XML, etc

14. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 3b. Copying Grids WITH Column Headers

15. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 4a. Drag-n-Drop Objects to Editor

16. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |  Shift, Select, Drag, Drop  OR Ctrl+Select, Drag..  Ctrl walks the dependency tree  Preview DDL, save, export, etc 4b. Drag-n-Drop Objects to Model

17. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 5. Viewing PL/SQL Execution Output (RefCursors)

18. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |  Right-Click on a Connection  Drop Down Controls for  Schema  Object  Same Functionality as Tree 6. Schema Browser

19. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 1. Hold down Ctrl... …Mouse over object...CLICK to open object 2. SHIFT+F4 (DESC) 3. Find DB Object Alt+G on object text 7. Three More Ways to Open/Browse Objects

20. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |  Create your own object actions  Extend the object editors 8. Extend the product with XML+SQL

21. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 8. Extend the product with XML+SQL

22. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |  Export data to Excel  Import from Excel to table  Existing  Build New One  XLSX Exports in 4 are faster 9. Excel Stuff

23. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 9. Excel Stuff – the Imports get a LOT easier in v4.1  Preview data as you define column mappings  Bad data highlighted  Best guess data types & date formats  CLI Support

24. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Right Click in the Editor Tab, split gives you 2 independent views of the editor, New Tab Group lets you see multiple editors at once 10. Split Editors & New Document Tab Groups

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26. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |  Customize Preferences Customize Preferences  Recall SQL History via keyboard Recall SQL History via keyboard  Script Output in CSV, HTML,... Script Output in CSV, HTML,...  Drag ‘n’ Drop Tables to Worksheet Drag ‘n’ Drop Tables to Worksheet  Drag ‘n’ Drop Tables to Model Drag ‘n’ Drop Tables to Model  PL/SQL Output PL/SQL Output  Schema Browser Schema Browser  Ctrl+Click, Shift+F4, Object Search Ctrl+Click, Shift+F4, Object Search  Copying Grids w/ Column Headers Copying Grids w/ Column Headers  XML Extensions XML Extensions  All of my #SQLDev Posts :) All of my #SQLDev Posts :) The Tips in Blog Format