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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

Database instance viewer

The database instance viewer window is a very useful feature for DBAs who can look at the target database with a 360 degree view. To open the instance viewer, we can use the navigation View | DBA.

Database instance viewer

We should add the DBA connection (preferably the system connection that we have already defined in the connections navigation pane).

Database instance viewer

Once the DBA connection is made, open the database status node, click on the database status needed, as shown in the following screenshot:

Database instance viewer

The information shown in the instance status window might take a while to come up, as shown in the below screenshot. This window is otherwise called as Instance Viewer and we have detailed information about all our database sessions, processes, wait events, CPU, memory, and storage details.

A double-click on each of these graphs will take us to more detailed information. For example, a double-click on the sessions graph will take us to more drill-down information on the database sessions.

Database instance viewer

Instance viewer is...

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