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Formatting Query Results to CSV in Oracle SQL Developer

I find that programs that are developed by the same folks that use that program in production are some of the best applications out there. The developer is the user. They have to eat their own dog food...

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Defaults for Exporting Data in Oracle SQL Developer

I was testing a reported bug in SQL Developer today – so the bug I was looking for wasn’t there (YES!) but I found a different one (NO!) – and I was getting frustrated by having to check the same boxes...

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Oracle SQL Developer version 4.1 Early Adopter Now Available

Go get it. Then come back here and read a couple of things. it REQUIRES Java 8 it’s not production ready – send feedback to the Forum not to Support Two new features to help you get started. SQL...

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SQL Developer 4.1: Easier Excel Imports

The most read post on this site? ‘How to Import from Excel to Oracle with SQL Developer‘ – and it has been since I published it almost 3 years ago. People really like Excel. Or I should put it this way...

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A Quick 4.1 Trick: SET SQLFORMAT

One of your favorite SQL Developer ‘tricks’ is the ability to pre-format query output. So instead of getting standard output back, maybe you want query results to come back as CSV. But using that...

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Loading Data via External Tables = Fast

Do as I say, not as I do. Because I am like most of you, I am very lazy. Case in point: loading some data from a CSV into an Oracle table. I can use a wizard in SQL Developer and in a few clicks, have...

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More SET SQLFORMAT fun in SQLcl

DELIMITED text files are popular ways of passing data around. CSV anyone? The C stands for ‘Comma’ – regardless of what your smug European friends may have told you #TonguePlantedFIRMLYInCheek Anyways,...

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Shopping for CSV with SQL Developer’s Cart

A friend of mine asked how he could generate CSV for 40 Oracle tables in Oracle SQL Developer. He could of course use Tools > Database Export to accomplish this. But, it was always the same 40...

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Bulk Load an Oracle Table from CSV via REST

I have 1,500 rows I need to shove into a table. I don’t have access to the database, directly. But my DBA is happy to give me a HTTPS entry point to my data. What do I do? Let’s look at a Low-Code...

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Loading data from OSS to Oracle Autonomous Cloud Services with SQL Developer

Ok that title has a TON of buzz and marketing words in it. But, we have the Oracle Cloud. And available there is a service where we take care of your database for you – Autonomous. We make sure it’s...

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Quick Tip: Spooling to ‘Excel’

Problem: I have 3 queries I want to run. I want the end result to be a single spreadsheet that has all the query results included. This problem may sound familiar to you, I have talked about how to do...

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SQLcl and the Load (CSV) command

I was going to refer someone on StackOverflow to my post on the LOAD command in SQLcl, but then I realized I hadn’t written one yet. Oops. So here’s that post. One of the new (that is, a command in...

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Batch Loading CSV to a TABLE in Oracle Autonomous Database using AUTOREST API

Signing up for an Autonomous Database is easy. You can have an instance up and running in just a few minutes. And now, you can even have one for FREE. But one of the first things you’re going to want...

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Excel/CSV Import to a new TABLE in SQL Developer Web

You have some data, but not in your trusty Oracle Database yet. How to get it there? You have many options of course, but today I want to talk about a brand new one, Oracle SQL Developer Web (SDW)....

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Loading Data into Oracle with SQLcl

When it comes to load data, especially very large amounts of data – if Data Pump is available, use that. If you can create an External Table, do that. If you have access to SQL*Loader, use that. But....

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DBMS_CLOUD and USER_LOAD_OPERATIONS with Oracle Autonomous Database

Loading data is a hot topic when it comes to databases, and it always has been. INSERTs, Data Pump, SQL*Loader, External Tables, IMP, RMAN, CREATE/INSERT as SELECTs, using ORDS and AutoREST, importing...

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Tips on Importing Excel to your Database &‘Data Modeling’

From Excel to Oracle…only to have it exported back to Excel. Poor Sisyphus! Why did I put Data Modeling in quotes? Because ingesting an excel file to your database and having a table created ‘as is’ IS...

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Using SQLcl to load CSV to a table, without COLUMN HEADERS

I don’t have SQLcl yet, DOWNLOAD it! Question from the ‘comments’ today: I would like to have a parameter for dataload WITHOUT column names having to be in the 1st line.Simply load the columns in the...

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SQLcl LOAD CSV, create new tables or just generate the DDL

Subscribers and my mom will probably remember that I’ve briefly talked about this feature before, but it was really just a tease. I wanted to go into a bit more detail today. In version 21.3, SQLcl got...

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Database Tools Service Deep Dive: The SQL Worksheet

Remember that we launched a brand new OCI service for developers and database users last week? One of the features I briefly touched on was the SQL Worksheet. You can find the official Docs on the...

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