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Oracle SQL Developer

You're reading from   Oracle SQL Developer Learn Database design, development,and administration using the feature-rich SQL Developer 4.1 interface

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785281273
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Susan Harper Susan Harper
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Ajith Narayanan Ajith Narayanan
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with SQL Developer 4.1 FREE CHAPTER 2. Database Connections and SQL Worksheet 3. The Power of SQL Reports 4. Working with PL/SQL 5. SQL Developer for DBAs 6. SQL Developer Accessibility 7. Importing, Exporting, and Working with Data 8. Database Connections and JDBC Drivers 9. Introducing SQL Developer Data Modeler 10. Extending SQL Developer 11. Working with Application Express 12. Working with SQL Developer Migrations 13. Oracle Data Miner 4.1 14. REST Data Services and REST Development Index

Getting started

SQL Developer Data Modeler is an independent product and in the previous releases of SQL Developer, only the Data Modeler Viewer extension was readily available along with the SQL Developer download. But in version 4.1, the Data Modeler is integrated with SQL Developer 4.1 by default as a full product and not as a mere read-only extension.

Oracle clients and JDBC drivers

If you are designing and building a model from scratch or have access to the DDL script file to import models, then you do not need to have access to a database. However, if you want to import from a database, you'll need to create a database connection. In this case, there is no need for an Oracle client in your development environment because you can use the thin JDBC driver to connect to the database. SQL Developer Data Modeler also supports the TNS alias. Therefore, if you have access to a tnsnames.ora file or have other Oracle software installed in your environment, you can access the tnsnames file...

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