Comments on: Oracle SQL Developer – A New GUI For Database Development

By: Nitin

Nitin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:28:18 +0000

Thanks for the tip #8 Paul about -
ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = ‘YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS’;

SQL Developer did not display timestamp until I ran this command.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:19:53 +0000

Kathy,

I have found that if you terminate every statement with a semi-colon in Developer, then F9 will just execute the statement where the cursor is.

Mike.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:09:00 +0000

Quick note — if you have specific needs for date/timestamp formatting, you can set them once under preferences/database/NLS parameters.

By: Don Kidd

Don Kidd — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:44:15 +0000

Kathy,
You just need so set up an accelerator key for that. If you go to tools->preferences and then click on Accelerator, and then you can find the command that you want to run then you can set the Shift-F9 or whatever command you want for that command.
Don

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:31:09 +0000

Just switched fromm Toad to Developer and can’t find the equivalent of Shift F9 in Toad, which means execute the command where the cursor is.

Only workaround I’ve found is to select the entire statement and then hit F5. It’s annoying, at best.

Does anyone know if there’s an equivalent to Shift F9?

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:07:50 +0000

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By: MANISH CHANDERA

MANISH CHANDERA — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 05:40:51 +0000

I dont no about Oracle SQL Developer. So Please Tell me .
How to create a database for Connect. And How to Create Password and User id .
And After how new connection. and
What write Hostname and SID Or Service Name

By: Don

Don — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:23:09 +0000

On the NLS topic, we are working w/ French chars in the DB and when either of the following are entered – œ Œ and Ÿ – we see a ¿ char via Toad or Sql*Plus

But when viewed via Oracle SQl Developer the chars display properly.

No changes were made to local NLS parms or Oralce Session NLS parms – Any thoughts?

Suspecting the JDBC drivers at this point but have no real evidence..

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:48:46 +0000

RE: viewing timestamp: Instead of having different formats specified in NLS for Date and Date/time, put your preferred format for viewing dates in the “date default” NLS setting, then you won’t have to constantly do Alter Sessions.

By: Freakinduck

Freakinduck — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:17:32 +0000

Unfortunate side effect of that is:

Out core product was mishandling datetime issue from the start (still is).

Since they format dates from strings, strings from dates, etc, they RELY on the NLS_DATE_FORMAT to be very specific.

If I change that, their app get date parsing/format errors.

Every effort to convince them that the CODE should format the date string and parse via same format, they resist due to the “complexity of date-time and timestamp issues”

Yes. Up until recently, their dates were stored as Varchar2. Logic doesn’t seem to work.