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Install, configure, customize, and manage your SQL Developer environment

Includes the latest features to enhance productivity and simplify database development

Covers reporting, testing, and debugging concepts

Meet the new powerful Data Modeling tool ñ Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler

Detailed code examples and screenshots for easy learning

Description

As technology rapidly evolves, many developers are looking for valuable tools to assist them with their daily tasks. When dealing with databases, a clean, easy-to-navigate interface for working and browsing is essential. Oracle SQL Developer is a graphical user interface that makes life much easier by allowing you to browse database objects, run SQL statements and scripts, and create, edit, and debug PL/SQL statements in the most efficient way. It enhances productivity and simplifies your database development tasks. Although the SQL Developer journey looks simple and easy, there are many areas that can go undiscovered, leaving you just scratching the surface. It's easy to get started and master this powerful tool with this book to hand. It will provide you with in-depth details about all aspects of using SQL Developer to assist you in your day-to-day database tasks and activities. You will learn to utilize SQL Developer's extensible environment to support your ongoing needs This book offers detailed instructions for installing, configuring, and effectively using Oracle SQL Developer. You will learn how to utilize every feature of this development tool and make the most out of it. While none of the tasks are complex, the book progresses from the easy, most commonly used features, such as browsing objects and writing queries in the SQL Worksheet, to the more involved and possibly less frequently used features, such as Tuning and Testing SQL and PL/SQL, and adding User Extensions, and finally to those features used by a smaller more targeted audience, such as Migrations, Oracle APEX, and the Data Modeler. Throughout the book there are tips and suggestions gathered as a result of working with the current SQL Developer user base. This book will also show you how to assess the health of your database with built-in as well as customized reports. By the end of the book you will be confident in making the best use of SQL Developer, and be able to set up and maintain a productive environment for quick and easy database development.

What you will learn

Build complex queries based on a number of tables using visual Query Builder

Assess the health of your database, data structure of your application, and data in that application with built-in as well as user-defined reports

Create, compile, and debug PL/SQL code and explore available features to facilitate writing PL/SQL code

Integrate your SQL Developer with open source version control systems CVS and Subversion, which allow checking out of files from a repository, editing, and checking them back in

Enter and execute your SQL, PL/SQL, and SQL*Plus statements with the SQL Worksheet interface

Produce easily replicable scripts that copy and move data from one database instance to another, or from one schema to another

Create advanced database connections using a variety of connection and authentication types available for Oracle as well as non-Oracle databases

Create, review, and update database schema designs with SQL Developer Data Modeler

Augment your environment with features that are specific to your needs by extending your SQL Developer with XML structured user-defined extensions

Monitor and manage your Application Express applications by integrating with SQL Developer

Set up an easy and quick migration environment for your database schema by using the migration repository

Browse and review non-Oracle databases, before using the migration environment to migrate and consolidate databases on the Oracle platform

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Daneasa Andrei Jan 28, 2010

In a few words: I'm impressed. It's a must read for everybody who's working with Oracle.For those of you who never used SQL Developer, is a GUI like Toad or PL/SQL Developer. The main difference is that it's free and made by Oracle. As a former user of PL/SQL Developer I have to say that Oracle SQL Developer reached its maturity, Oracle is investing a lot of efforts in developing this tool and this is why now SQL Developer is the most used tool for Oracle development, which is quite impressive considering it has just 2 or 3 years since it was launched.I was using SQL Developer since it was on beta, still called Project Raptor, and I witnessed the way it grew day by day. From a very simple GUI the development team added: * migration capabilities, making Oracle Migration Workbench deprecated * schema copy, schema compare * import/export capabilities * SVN/CVS integration * Data modeling * excellent reporting capabilitiesNow, coming back to the book: what's better than having a book describing all the above written by the Product Manager of the tool? Sue did a fantastic job writing the book and now everybody have a reference (with a lot of examples and screenshots) for all the capabilities of SQL Developer.I have to recon that there were quite a few things in the book that I have no idea they exists. This is mostly due to the fact that the product is on such a heavy development and the releases are launched very frequently.After reading the ebook I am seriously thinking of buying the hard-copy of it. Again, it's something that everybody that deals with Oracle must have.

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Douglas A. Gault Feb 03, 2010

I've been using SQL-Developer since it's initial beta release, and have followed it's progress and evolution with great interest. Having used it as much as I have, I wondered how much I would get out of this book.To my surprise and delight, there were a lot of little golden nuggets. Some things that I had always wondered about, and some things that I didn't even know the product could do. For instance, I had never really taken the time to fathom the difference between code snippets and code templates, and this is explained very clearly in the book. Another subtlety are some of the less known preference settings, such as whether or not to open a PL/SQL unit of first click, or whether or not to compile PL/SQL with debug info by default.In the book, Sue Harper covers everything from install (on multiple platforms) all the way through set-up and extending the product to suit your own needs. She introduces you to where important preferences files are stored, how to back them up and how to rest your environment to "factory install" state. Sue also covers topics such as data migration, integration with Application Express, and integration with source code control systems such as SVN, CVS and others.Sue really shows how well she knows the product and has done an excellent job of laying this out, so that it proves itself as a desktop reference as well as a introductory and educational.If you're new to SQL-Developer, this is a great learning too. If you're an old hand like me, you might be surprised what you learn!

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Amazon Customer Feb 09, 2010

I've been using Oracle SQL Developer I think since the very first initial betas. I could never stand the TOAD interface and the few bugs I encountered with SQL Developer were never bothersome enough to stop using the tool.Over the years SQL Developer has matured very nicely and now is very stable and feature rich.Oracle SQL Developer 2.1 by Sue Harper covers the latest release for SQL Developer - 2.1. This release brought a lot of stability to the project and also introduced the new Data Modeler from Oracle.I've been skimming through the book for the last week or so. I honestly thought since I've been using SQL Developer for so long there would be very little new to me in the book but I've been pleasantly surprised and have picked up a lot of small tips that have helped me work smarter and more efficiently with SQL Developer.The book covers quite a bit: * Install, configure, customize, and manage your SQL Developer environment * Includes the latest features to enhance productivity and simplify database development * Covers reporting, testing, and debugging concepts * Meet the new powerful Data Modeling tool - Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler * Detailed code examples and screenshots for easy learningA few useful tips I've picked up since reading the book have been: * The ability to highlight and filter data in the grids. This is really useful when you are trying to dig through some complicated data looking for very particular information. * Using bind variables in the worksheet. * The code formatter - cleaning up my mess!What else does the book cover? There are chapters devoted to PL/SQL, dubugging and tuning, extending SQL Developer, source control integration (using Subversion) and a large chapter on the Data Modeler which I'm just waiting for a new project to start to begin exploring that particular tool.If you are just getting started using SQL Developer I'd highly recommend the book. It will get you up to speed quickly and seems useful as a quick reference. If you are an experienced SQL Developer user I still think the added section on the new Data Modeler will be quite useful.

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jsw Jan 05, 2010

Oracle SQL Developer 2.1 is an excellent resource for anyone who is working within the Oracle environment. It reads very easily, has great examples and is very relevant. I especially like the sections related to the new data modeling tool. There is also a key section for those who want to migrate away from SQL Sever, Sybase and DB2. All in all, a must have for someone new to oracle and a great desk reference for the old-timer.

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scottm4321 Mar 22, 2012

I'm an absolute beginner, taking a college course in database. I could barely get oracle 11g up and running after 3 days of trying and couldn't figure out how to make connections work. I saw a snippet of this book somewhere else and in 1/2 an hour I'm up and running. Thank you Sue Harper! I'm buying your book now.

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