Update Center for Free SQL Developer Extensions
Introduction In July 2017 Oracle announced to release updates for SQL Developer on a quarterly basis. Installing multiple versions of SQL Developer on the same machine is not a problem. Therefore many developers install a new version as soon as it becomes available. On the…
Integrate SQL*Plus Scripts in SQL Developer
I envy my DBA colleagues when they work with the Oracle Database from the command line in an incredibly efficient way. They just call a series of scripts with some parameters to get the desired information. Everything looks so easy, so smooth, so natural. I’m…
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…
SQL Developer 19.1 unable to use connection type ldap with OUD
Due to a tip from a work colleague, I came across a changed behaviour of the latest SQL Developer release. It affects the connection type LDAP respectively the use of an LDAP directory for the database name resolution. After specifying one or more LDAP servers…
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…
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