I've been having a bit of a play with the Oracle 12c database over the past few days and I thought I'd mention a gotcha I encountere...

Occasionally I'll want some form of report noting file sizes of blobs in a database. The solution is relatively simple, and I thought ...

So far this December Oracle has released version upgrades for three of their products: Joel Kallman announced Oracle APEX 4.2.4 is now a...

After a little hiccup on my part, I've started using SQL Developer 4 Early Adopter 1 on two computers I work on. It's pretty easy: ...

For many, many years I've yearned to move away from windows. Everyone has their reasons, some have motivation, I finally had opportunity...

You can still manage much of your APEX workspace from the command line - whether that be SQL*Plus, SQL Developer, or some other tool of choi...

Have you downloaded SQL Developer 3.2 yet? check this out: I guess Oracle Open World will have a few announcements this year... I...

Inspired by Jeff Smith's post on SQL Developer preferences , I thought I'd share what I usually tweak when I sit down on a new box ...

Some of you may be familiar with the ability to administer Apex applications via SQL Developer, for instance I could modify the alias of my ...

One of the first Oracle related news I noticed this morning was SQL Developer 3.0 has just been released . Make sure you check out the r...

On the back of my recent discussions on SQL Developer , at the start of the week Mike Hichwa announced on his blog that SQL Developer Data ...

Last week I commented on some issues I have with SQL Developer, from which a number of people commented and e-mailed me about. Stew in par...

When Project Raptor finally came to fruition as a download in mid 2007 as  SQL Developer 1.2 , I was excited at the prospect of having a f...

Today I was exploring the new SQL Developer in regard to managing Application Express. There is an option for example to change the alias ...

The latest major release of SQL Developer is now in the Early Adopter stage, starting at 2.1 (not to be confused with the much older & ...