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SQLcl: Setup on a Mac

Simple and straightforward steps about how to setup Oracle’s new SQL command line tool on a macOS X environment. Download Application and Environment Setup Attempt to start the application: Setup Java Download Java from the Oracle site. As I am on a mac wit M processor (ARM) , I cannot install jre-8u371-macosx-x64.dmg, so I cannot…

May 4, 2023

BUG? Oracle SQL Developer cannot access files on mac OS X

I used Oracle SQL Developer for years until recently (possibly after the upgrade to macOS 12.6.5?) when the SQL Developer stopped being able to access the files stored locally: The software does not prompt for access at start-up, not after the upgrade nor if I delete the fully the ./sqldeveloper/ directory. The solution seems to…

April 26, 2023

Oracle SQL Developer 23.1 is now available

It’s time to go update your desktop copy of SQL Developer! We have some very important bug fixes for our community of Oracle Database users, … Oracle SQL Developer 23.1 is now available

April 20, 2023

Problematic Statistics of the Application Objects in your Oracle Database

One of the often asked questions is to find out the status of the statistics of the application owned schemas. In this article, I will list the SQL code that I used for this purpose. As well, I will publish a SQL Developer report that can be used for the same purpose. For ease of…

February 11, 2023

SSB Schema creation on Oracle DB by using Autonomous and SQL Developer

Creating the empty SSB database objects on Oracle

October 19, 2022

Comparing Oracle Databases: Initialization Parameters

A method for comparing the Oracle init parameters of several PDB’s

October 14, 2022

TUE Post: Use Oracle SQL Developer to move data between databases

Use INSERT hint with SQL Developer

September 27, 2022

Tuesday Post: Database schemas compare

One of the questions that arise during the development process is if the database schéma I work on is an unaltered image of production. How do I know that another developer didn’t experiment with a new index or modified the structure of some table? Writing scripts to compare my current database with the ‘source of…

March 15, 2022

Oracle SQL Developer 21.4.2 & SQLcl 21.4.1 are now available

We published two updates last night, both maintenance releases, aka bug fixes only. Released January 19, 2022.That being said, everyone should … Oracle SQL Developer 21.4.2 & SQLcl 21.4.1 are now available

January 22, 2022

Help, my Oracle SQL Developer is crashing!

With 7,000,000 users, give or take a million, I get quite a few notes from folks who are having problems getting SQL Developer to open, or to STAY … Help, my Oracle SQL Developer is crashing!

January 22, 2022

Starting Oracle SQL Developer with Custom Parameters

I recently worked at a Client that had the Windows desktop setup in a non-English language. Naturally, I did not get admin rights on the Client owned desktop so I could not change the sqldeveloper.conf SQL Developer config file which was stored in a ‘protected’ location.

August 21, 2021

Setup a VirtualBox based Database Lab Environment

Oracle provides a lot of useful Oracle VirtualBox Pre-built Appliances. In this blog post, I will describe the few extra steps I take after download in order to setup my lab environment on my work MacBook Pro.

August 8, 2021