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02 Jun 2013
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The 1st Tip is Free: Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler

This year’s ODTUG KScope conference is less than a month away and I am ready to get to New Orleans and meet up with all my friends and colleagues to talk shop and learn some new things.

So in hopes of getting you to attend, I will share with you one of my productivity tips for using SQL Developer Data Modeler (SDDM).

DDL Previewer

I love this tool. I use it every single day in my work building data warehouses for my clients.

Really.

It’s easy – just right click on the table (or view) you want to check and Voila!

Right mouse over object to get preview option

Right mouse over object to get preview option

Once you pick “DDL Preview”, then you get the DDL in another window.

Example of DDL script in Preview Window

Example of DDL script in Preview Window

With this you can:

1. Check the design to see if it is what you wanted/expected.

2. Copy and paste it to a worksheet in SQL Developer where you can then execute it (if you have the rights!).

One more cool thing is that if you leave the DDL window open, you can now click on any other object in the open diagram and instantly see the DDL for that object.

So there you go – really 3 tips for the price of one!

If you want more, I will be presenting my Top 10 SDDM Tips and Tricks at KScope13 in New Orleans in a few weeks. So go register now!

See you in NOLA!

Kent

 

Posted in Data Modeling, ODTUG, Oracle, SQL Developer Data Modeler, User Groups and tagged , , , , , , , , , ,
14 Jan 2013
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Tech Tip: Connect to SQL Server Using Oracle SQL Developer (updated)

I spend a lot of time reverse engineering client databases to see what kind of design they are working with or to simply create a data model diagram for them (so they know what they have).

Along the way I often need to actually look at the data as well to do some analysis and profiling.

Often this means looking at data and models in SQL Server as well as Oracle.

What’s an Oracle Data Warrior to do?

Hook up my FREE handy dandy Oracle SQL Developer to the SQL Server database.

How do you do that?

First you need to get the right driver. You can find it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtds/files/jtds/1.2.5/jtds-1.2.5-dist.zip/download

NOTE: For SQL Developer 4.0EA3 and SQL Developer Data Modeler 4.0 (production) you now need jtds-1.3.1. Get it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtds/files/

Then follow these steps:

  1. Download and unzip the file into the main SQL Developer directory (or the directory of your choice).
  2. In SQL Developer go to Tools -> Preferences -> Database -> Third party JDBC Drivers
  3. Click the “add entry” button
  4. Navigate to the jtds-1.2.5.jar file. (or the 1.3.1 file for 4.x installs)
  5. Save and exit preferences.
  6. Close and restart SQL Developer
  7. Open “Add Connection” – there should now be a SQL Server tab.
SQL Developer Preferences

SQL Developer Preferences

With this in place, you can now connect to SQL Server without having to load any other software.

Pretty useful.

Happy Querying!

Kent

P.S. You can connect to other non-Oracle dbs as well. Check out this post by Jeff Smith for even more details.

Additional Notes on SSO errors:

Lots of folks, including me, have had issues getting the native Windows SSO connection to SQL Server to work. Based on answers on the OTN Forum and this post (http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2013/10/01/sql-developer-4-ea2-connecting-to-sql-server/) I finally got my new 4.x versions to work.

For SQL Developer 4.0EA3, I did as suggested in the article: http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2013/10/01/sql-developer-4-ea2-connecting-to-sql-server/. I put the ntlmauth.dll where my JDK 1.7 was installed: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_40\jre\bin

For Data Modeler 4.0.13 (production), based on a suggestion from Jeff Smith, I put the dll file here: C:\SQLDeveloper\SQLDeveloper4.0.13\sqldeveloper\sqldeveloper\bin

If I was better at setting windows paths, I am sure there is a better way to do this.

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