Introducing SQL Developer reports
Whether you are a DBA or an application developer, running SQL queries against the data dictionary is a useful source of information. It provides you with details about the objects various schemas own, the health of a system, and the integrity of the data in the applications. If you work with the Oracle database regularly, you almost certainly already have a set of queries that you frequently run. For example, you might have a query to determine the tables that have no Primary Keys or, if you are a DBA, you might have a query to find out the currently connected sessions. Over the years, you may gather these queries in a file and have them at hand no matter what project you are working on, and they can play a significant role in your daily tasks.
SQL Developer has a categorized group of these SQL queries (reports) and it also provides the tools to create and save your essential queries as reports.
In this first section, we'll discuss the Reports navigator...