Comments on: Getting used to Oracle SQL Developer

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:24:31 +0000

When I click on “Actions” beside the filter, there is not option for exporting, is this something we have to enable?

By: Patrick Sinke

Patrick Sinke — Fri, 05 May 2006 08:05:39 +0000

Hi Gary, thanks for your reply. I suspected already that JDeveloper and SQL Developer shared the same code. The GUI and LAF are too similar to be a coincendence also.

By: Gary Belleville

Gary Belleville — Thu, 04 May 2006 19:20:47 +0000

Patrick,

You were asking about having the same firewall issue as with JDeveloper. There is a good reason for that: my understanding is that Oracle stripped code right out of JDeveloper to create SQL Developer!

By: Patrick Sinke

Patrick Sinke — Tue, 02 May 2006 08:30:01 +0000

Harm, this blogpost is not about demonstrating how good SQL Developer is. I am not trying to convince people to switch from TOAD or any other tool to SQL Developer. This tool is however an option for some people, and it does have potential in my opinion. So please do not disqualify it because it does not suit your needs.

By: Harm Verschuren

Harm Verschuren — Mon, 01 May 2006 09:49:54 +0000

Getting used…to not seeing your data properly?
SQL Developer is *bagger* from the upper shelf. It does a very poor job when working with xmltype data types and functions or working with AQ, to name a few. Even iSQLPlus does a better job at these points. At least in iSQLPlus (and the good old SQLPlus) shows the XML when queriing an xmltype column, in SQL Developer it shows (XMLTYPE).

By: Patrick Sinke

Patrick Sinke — Mon, 01 May 2006 09:34:43 +0000

I checked various combinations of portranges: 79-80, 80-80, 80-81, 79-81. In all cases it avoids port 80, and if 80 is the only choice it uses “0″. I’m not sure if this is done deliberately (security?) or if ithe protocol itself is not suitable to use port 80 for debugging.

By: rekounas

rekounas — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 04:02:17 +0000

Funny, I just sent out a mass e-mail to our Java developers and DBAs at work today to use this as an alternative to TOAD. I noticed most of the developers were pretty green about database technologies, so SQL Developer would be more than what they need.

The DBAs thought it was cool cause they all hate TOAD. They prefer DBartisain, and for DBA work I would have to say that is the tool to go with.

By: Thet

Thet — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:20:13 +0000

Patrick:

Have you tried using port 79-80? It might us 80 if it tends to choose the higher port #. Let us know.

By: Patrick Sinke

Patrick Sinke — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:08:46 +0000

That is true, you can also select themes like Desert Green and Sky Red!

By the way, I tried to force the debugger to communicate on port 80 in order to circumvene the FW bug. This is not possible though. When I select range 80 through 80 it uses port “0″ (and throws an error!) and with the range 80 through 81 is uses port 81. Too bad, but it was worth a try.

By: Francois

Francois — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:41:20 +0000

Cool ;o)
Even if you stay with the Oracle LAF, you can swap between a lot of themes.