On the forum of PL/SQL Developer there was a message by my good friend Erik van Roon. He was having trouble with Reconnecting. Even my plugin didn’t help him. I figured I should update the plugin.
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Connecting PL/SQL Developer
In SQL Developer you have a lot of options when connecting to the database. You can use the TNS entries defined but you can also give the hostname, port and SID or Servicename for instance. PL/SQL Developer doesn’t supply these options, but you can still use them…
Read moreCreating hidden paths in Powerpoint
When you are, like me, creating presentations you might want to have the possibility to hide certain slides and only show them when time permits. You can of course just skip over the slides during your presentation, but that is not a good practice IMHO. It is better to add these slides as hidden slides […]
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Last couple of weeks I have been working on an update of the Favorites plugin for PL/SQL Developer. After extensive testing by Erik van Roon, Henk Jan van Wijk and Marcel Hoefs I decided to release it. Hope you like it.
Read moreRedgate Source Control for Oracle
At the KScope12 conference Redgate held a live lab to develop their new tool: Redgate Source Control for Oracle. I was involved then already to help make this tool work the way developers want. To help everyone use this tool Redgate is friendly to provide me with two (2) five (5) user licenses to their […]
Read morePL/SQL Developer plugins
As the people at Allround Automations are working hard to release version 10 of their great application PL/SQL Developer, I have been busy checking/rebuilding/extending my plugins. I have added toolbar buttons to all of commands supplied by my plugins. I am not done yet. I have some more plugins to do, but I will do […]
Read moreVersion Control
When building software you often make a lot of changes to your code, only to find out is isn’t working anymore. What change broke the code? What was the previous, working, version like? Can I go back in time to undo my changes? And if you are working in a team: Who made the last […]
Read moreTiming in PL/SQL
In my current project I wanted to add some timing to the logging the code already does. So I started my search for a good timing package. My first idea was to download PL/Vision and use the timer that is in there. Installing this was not as simple as I hoped it to be. The […]
Read moreUsing Table Functions
Overview of table functions Table functions are functions that produce a collection or rows (either a nested table or a varray) that can be queried like a physical database table. You use a table function like the name of a database table, in the FROM clause of a query. The difference with a physical database […]
Read moreOPP Brussels
Coming Wednesday the first edition of the OPP conference in Europe will start. I will be doing a presentation on Thursday on one of my favorite tools: PL/SQL Developer. I will be attending a lot of PL/SQL oriented sessions like ‘The Helsinki Declaration’ by Toon Koppelaars and for instance the ‘SOA for PL/SQL developers’ by […]
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