2015-12-07
I’m currently reviewing a draft of Roger Troller’s updated PL/SQL and SQL Coding Guidelines version 3.0. One guideline recommends to use ANSI join syntax. The mentioned reasons are ANSI join syntax does not have as many restrictions as the ORACLE join syntax has. Furthermore ANSI join syntax supports the full outer join. A third […]
2015-11-23
Some people asked me to announce the availability of new versions of products on my web site. I guess a blog entry and a Twitter announcement should do the job. Today I’ve released the following three updates: PL/SQL Cop 1.0.16 PL/SQL Cop for SQL Developer 1.0.12 PL/SQL Analyzer 1.0.7 These products are always affected […]
2015-05-17
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’m 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 unwrapping […]
2015-05-05
Today I could not install any SQL Developer extension on my Mac OS X machine. I did not get an error message during the installation. After a restart of SQL Developer the extension simply was missing. When I tried to re-install it – selecting “Check for updates…” in the “Help” menu – I’ve got the […]