Philipp Salvisberg’s Blog
Database-centric development
2016-06-26
406 days ago I’ve 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 verison 1.0 you can unwrap multiple selected objects with a few mouse clicks. In this blog […]
2016-05-22
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 than 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
Until August 2015 it never occurred to me that one could use non-PL/SQL code within conditional compilation blocks. Back than we discussed various template engine options as 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 selection […]
2016-04-23
Last week I’ve 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 how well the additional PL/SQL Cop metrics integrate into SonarQube and how easy it […]
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 […]
2014-05-22
The Oracle 12c grammar is now supported in the new versions of the Trivadis CodeChecker, CodeChecker for SQL Developer and CodeAnalyzer. The following example code, copied from a colleague at Trivadis, shows how to insert rows while querying a view. This might not be the most appropriate way to implement auditing, but it shows in a […]
2014-04-30
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 is tool is perfectly suited to process millions of lines of code, but an integration into Oracle SQL Developer was missing until […]