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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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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

Chapter 6. SQL Developer Accessibility

SQL Developer has a Connections node for establishing a database session with the target database. The connections may be either newly created or an imported and existing connection that we already had in the previous version of SQL Developer. To create a new database connection, right-click on the Connections node and select New Database Connection. You can also connect to schemas for MySQL, TimesTen, and Hive, as well as some select third-party (non-Oracle) databases, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase Adaptive Server, and IBM DB2, to view metadata and data. However, providing details on such third-party database connections are out of scope of this book. The existing connections are always displayed in the connections pane automatically every time the SQL Developer is started. This list of existing connections is fetched from either tnsnames.ora file (if it exists); otherwise, the connections information is stored in a connections.xml...

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