All of the new features in versions 18.1, 18.2, and 18.3 of Oracle SQL Developer. Some of these slides have animated GIFs - please see the embedded video for a live presentation of these slides.

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What’s New in Oracle SQL Developer
And What’s Coming Next
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SQL Developer on
• 60+ Videos
• Feature demos
• Tips & Tricks
• Short & Long Form

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SQL Developer Snapshot
Time Tested
Launched in
2005
An Industry Standard
5M+ Oracle DBAs
& Developers
Always Improving
Quarterly
Releases
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 PL/SQL IDE
 SQL editor
 GUI for browsing and managing database objects
 Ad Hoc reporting
 Database Design & Data Modeling
 Database Administration
 3rd Party RDBMS Migrations to Oracle
 Deploy and Administer Oracle REST Data Services
 REST Enablement of the Database
 Command Line Interface
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SQL Developer, What Is It?

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Oracle SQLcl
 Everything you like about SQL*Plus and SQL Developer
 Including:
 in-line editing
 query/script history
 custom commands
 client-side JavaScript scripting
 automatic output formatting
 built-in SSH

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Oracle SQL Developer Web
 Oracle Database Cloud Services Console
 Instance Management
 Fully Functional Query/PLSQL Worksheet
 Schema Diagramming
 Object Create/Alter Dialogs
 Real Time SQL Monitoring

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Project Raptor
 Early Adopter on OTN
2005
1.1
 File Based PL/SQL editing
 Reports
 Ships with 11gR1
1.5.x
 Localizations - Japanese,
Spanish, Italian, German,
French, Portuguese,
Chinese, & Koreans
 Ships with 11gR2
SQLDev v1.0
 SQL Worksheet
 Procedure Editor
 The world takes notice!
1.5
 Schema Copy/Diff/Export
 Thick connections
 Versioning
 TimesTen
2.1
 Unit Testing
 Data Modeler Viewer
 Unshared SQL Worksheets
2007 201020092006
3.0
 Full Data Modeler
 View > DBA
 SQL Tuning Advisor
 Query Builder
2008 2011 2012
3.1
 New Database DIFF
 PDF Reports
 RMAN
 Data Pump
2013
3.2
 APEX Listener / ORDS
Support
 Database 12c Support
 Schema Service Support
4.0
 Java 7
 ASH/AWR/ADDM
 Color Coded Connections
 Command line Interface
4.0.3
 Optimized Code Insight
 Oracle Big Data Appliance
2014 2015 2016
4.1
 ORDS Included/Full GUI
 instance Viewer
 SQLcl
 Copy PDB to DBaaS
 Larry live demos PDB relocate @ OOW
4.2
 Real Time SQL Monitoring
 Top SQL Report
 Formatter & Other Editor Enhancements
 Easier RESTful Services Development
2017
SQLcl
 New CLI
 Modern SQL*Plus
Release History

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2017
2017.2
 Bug Fixes
 Sharding
 Data Guard
17.3 & 17.4
 Bug Fixes
Quarterly Releases!!!
2018
Release History
18.1
 Autonomous Data Warehouse Support
 New Welcome Screen/Connections
 SQL Injection Detection
 PL/Scope SQL Statement Support
 Better Formatting
18.2/3
 PL/SQL Injection
Detection
 Cloud data Loads
 SQL Developer
Web

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2018 Review: Welcome Page
 New Welcome Screen
 Create a connection
 Recent connections
 See/Set Your TNS

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Formatter & Right Aligned Keywords

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CONVERT case Only

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Custom Syntax Highlighting
 Custom highlighting rules
 Calls to:
 DBMS_OUTPUT
 LOGGER
 APEX_DEBUG…
 …Automatically grayed out

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Parser Assistance

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Better PL/SQL Completion

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Safer PL/SQL: SQL Injection Detection

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Find Code Easier: SEARCH
 PL/SQL
 PL/SQL via PL/Scope
 ALL_STATEMENTS
 Views & MVs
 RESTFul Services

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SQL Worksheet: Query Builder
 Much faster!
 Oracle/ANSI Joins

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Faster Excel Imports!

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Easier Explain Execution Plans

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Real Time SQL Monitoring: HTML Reports

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Nested Connection Folders

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Making Cloud Easier: Getting Data into your Service
 New or Existing Table: load csv from machine/OSS
 Coming in 18.3:
 Load multiple tables/files
 Data Pump on premises to ATW/P
 Coming to SQL Developer Web
 WIP Drag and Drop files directly to your schema

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ADW/ATP: Load Data/Create Table from file in OSS
 blog post

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Drop Schema Objects, Files into a Cart for ADW/ATP Loads
Brand new for 18.3

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Data Pump On Premises to ADW/ATP
 Run Data Pump Export
 Copy files to OSS
 DMP goes to OSS
 Create the import job on ATW/P

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Redshift Migrations
 Unload schemas to S3
 Create new schema on ADW
 Move data over

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Oracle SQL Developer Web
 Oracle Database Cloud Services Console
 Instance Management
 Fully Functional Query/PLSQL Worksheet
 Schema Diagramming
 Object Create/Alter Dialogs
 Real Time SQL Monitoring

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Oracle SQL Developer Web – Queries in your Browser

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Oracle SQL Developer Web – Create/Edit TABLE

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Oracle SQL Developer Web – Real Time SQL Monitoring

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Oracle SQL Developer Web – DBA (Instance Overview)

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Oracle SQL Developer Web – Current Status
 Running now with DBaaS on OCI-C
 Available w/ATP-Dedicated launch
 Work in Progress: OCI (Soon!), ADW/ATP (Soon’ish)

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2019 Strategy
Oracle SQL Developer Web available on all DBCS offerings with most commonly used
features from the desktop.
Assist with moving your data from on-premises (Oracle & non-Oracle) to Cloud

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 OCI Consoles to get native database monitoring features
 SQL Developer Web across all Oracle DBCS
 Extend LiquiBase to support 100% Oracle SCHEMA objects
 Integrated with SQLcl
 Enhanced SQL Developer change management screens and reports
2019 SQL Developer Plans

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One last trick: SPOOL to ZIP
sql> set sqlformat csv
sql> spool employees.csv.zip

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Developer Day VirtualBox Image, version 18!
 SQLDev, ORDS,
SQLcl, Modeler 18.3
 APEX 18.2
 Database 18c
 Hands On Labs
 Free for educational
use!

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