2020-09-07
Introduction In this blog post I explain how you can configure your SQL Developer to highlight hints and distinguish them from ordinary comments. The SQL Language Reference for Oracle Database 19c defines hints as follows: Hints are comments in a SQL statement that pass instructions to the Oracle Database optimizer. The optimizer […]
2020-08-28
Introduction Everything Changes. Our Trivadis SQL & PL/SQL Coding Guidelines are no exceptions. We plan to change rule #1 of our coding styles. From “Keywords are written uppercase, names are written in lowercase.” to “Keywords and names are written in lowercase.“. We have 103 Markdown files and most of them contain several […]
2020-08-14
Introduction Oracle just released the Autonomous JSON Database (AJD). This is a special version of the Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) database focussing on managing JSON documents via Simple Oracle Document Access (SODA) and SQL. Beda Hammerschmidt shows in this blog post how you can use SQL Developer Web to execute SODA and […]
2020-08-09
Introduction Oracle’s SQL Developer can format code in any worksheet and PL/SQL editor. The formatter is highly configurable and the default formatting results are becoming better with every version. Oracle’s SQLcl is a command-line tool. It’s a stripped down version of SQL Developer and known as a user-friendly alternative for SQL*Plus. But […]
2020-04-26
Introduction A customer asked me if it is possible to show unused identifiers in SQL Developer. Since there is no PL/SQL compile warning for that, you might be tempted to say no. But you can always use PL/SQL Cop for static code analysis. Guideline G-1030 deals with variables and constants and guideline […]
2020-04-13
Introduction I started using SQL Developer in 2013. Back then version 4.0 was the latest and greatest. But the capabilities of the formatter were disappointing. In 2017 Oracle released version 4.2 with a new formatter and has been improving it ever since. Version 19.2 brought us dynamic JavaScript actions within the parse-tree […]
2019-12-13
Do you use parameterless PL/SQL functions in your queries? Did you know that this may cause performance issues? In this blog post I explain why parameterless functions can be the reason for bad execution plans in any Oracle Database. I recently had to analyze this problem in a production system and thought […]
2019-10-24
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 a developer. Basically a mouse pusher. I […]
2019-02-17
Since February, 13 2019 Oracle Database 19c is available. I blogged about this feature here and here. Time for an update. So, what’s new in 19c regarding the MemOptimized Rowstore? Fast Lookup Works with JDBC Thin Driver I listed 16 prerequisites for the MemOptimized Rowstore in this blog post. The last one – “The […]
2018-09-28
Are you reluctant to use regular expressions in SQL? Then continue reading. Examples helped me to understand regular expressions years ago. Thus I hope this collection of simple examples and the tooling tips will encourage you to use regular expressions. It’s not as complicated as it looks at first glance. Once you […]