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Oracle SQL Developer

By : Susan Harper
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Oracle SQL Developer

By: Susan Harper

Overview of this book

At times, DBAs support 100s of databases at work. In such scenarios, using a command-line tool like putty adds to the difficulty, while SQL Developer makes the life of a developer, DBA, or DB architect easier by providing a graphical user interface equipped with features that can bolster and enhance the user experience and boost efficiency. Features such as DBA panel, Reports, Data Modeler, and Data Miner are just a few examples of its rich features, and its support for APEX, REST Services, timesten, and third-party database drivers demonstrate its extensibility. You may be a newbie to databases or a seasoned database expert, either way this book will help you understand the database structure and the different types of objects that organize enterprise data in an efficient manner. This book introduces the features of the SQL Developer 4.1 tool in an incremental fashion, starting with installing them, making the database connections, and using the different panels. By sequentially walking through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly master SQL Developer 4.1.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Oracle SQL Developer
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
11
Working with Application Express
Index

Creating new database objects


In the first section of the chapter, we looked at browsing objects and data in the database. You may, if you are an application developer and working with a completed database design, spend most of your time doing just that. It is more likely, though, that you'll need to make changes such as adding or modifying structures and data. SQL Developer provides the dialogs to assist you.

In the same way that you can write SQL queries to extract information about the objects you have access to, you can write the SQL Data Definition Language (DDL) to create, edit, and modify these objects. Almost all of the object nodes in the Connections navigator provide a context menu to create a new object. To invoke a dialog that creates any new object, select the object in the navigator and invoke the context menu.

The following list is an exception for creating new objects using context menus:

  • Editioning Views

  • Queues

  • Queue Tables

  • Cross Edition Triggers

  • Directories

  • Editions

  • Application...