I'm using SQL Developer and I have a doubt about displaying data in the SQL Developer GUI. Indeed, I have an encoding concern, and I wanted to check the real state of the data, because I think that maybe the SQL Developer GUI also uses an encoding....
I don't know if my question is clear?
Oracle SQL Developer is a Java application, everything we do is 'Unicode'
That being said, when you open or create a file, you most definitely cause an 'encoding' to be set.
What most folks run into, problem-wise, is using a FONT that doesn't support the characterset being used in their database.
This setting affects display of BOTH your code and your data.
Disclaimer: I work for Oracle and I am the product manager for SQL Developer.
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I have a plain text not oracle binary dump. How can I import this to postgres? Are there tools available for this out there? Or is there some other one, anyone did this before?
What I though is to convert one dump (oracle) into another dump (postgres).
Check out ETL tools like Talend and Pentaho for conversion between Oracle and PostgreSQL.
From an Oracle dump it's going to be much more difficult. Your best bet is almost certainly to load it into an Oracle instance and then use migration/ETL tools from there. Depending on the dump size, features required, etc, you might be able to use a free Oracle version for this.
I don't think it is feasible in an easy immediate way. Is the plain text in sqlloader format? I think it may be easier for you, if the database size isn't huge, to export DDL and then data in INSERT format.
An alternative would be a migration tool, such as Talend, but again, it isn't immediate. The shortest path go through standard SQL, IMHO.
With newer PostgreSQL versions (9.1 or later) you might be able to use a foreign data wrapper to access the Oracle schema from within your PostgreSQL database, e.g.:
http://laurenz.github.io/oracle_fdw/
We are planning on writing a load process that uses SSIS and loads a SQL 2008 database. Transformations may be done in the packages or in stored procedures that are called from a package or directly from our job scheduler.
What can we do now while in planning stage to minimize the impact should we have to migrate the app to Oracle in teh future?
I picture the SSIS packages could be changed to use a different provider.
What about the SQL that we use?
Q: Is there a way to put, for example, a stored procedure in "ANSI mode" for lack of a better term to ensure that only standard SQL is used within to increase our chances that the SQL will migrate to Oracle?
One thing you can do is SET FIPSFLAGGER FULL etc. More info here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189781.aspx
I am not aware of any ANSI Standard for RDBMS programming languages. And the constructs between TSQL and PL/SQL are quite different.
But can you use the Common Runtime Environment (I think that's what its called) in SQL Server to run JAVA? If you can, and given that Oracle can run JA VA this might offer a pathway to what you want to acheive.
I may be asking something silly but I don't see any sql*plus or any GUI kind of interface to connect my Oracle server remotely. I tried SQL Plus but it's a command line interface, don't know what to do with that.
Oracle SQL developer is a GUI client
pl/sql developer and toad are both decent, but nonfree, Oracle gui clients. If you're going to do a lot of work on packages or stored procs/funcs, one of these will be worth every bit of money you spend.
squirrel sql is an opensource client. There's a squirrel-derived plugin for eclipse called SQL Explorer; it's really good for looking at your data to help get your programs right.
I have joined a project which has been already developed and its a legacy project with very large database and its in Java/J2EE.
I am trying to understand the Database Design & Architecture and so is there a tool available which can generate schema from the populated table representing all the constraints like foreign keys etc ?
Basically am looking for an Database Re-engineering Tool. My database is Oracle 10g.
Inputs would be highly appreciated.
I use ER/Studio and I absolutely love it for all my data modeling, reverse engineering and database design work.
http://www.embarcadero.com/products/er-studio
I should really become an ER/Studio evangelist.. but really, it is a great product.
Haven't played much with it, but Oracle has a tool included with SQL Developer: Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler. I agree with #Raj that ER Studio is very good; I've also used ERWin. Both have the drawback of being quite pricey. For a while there was free downloads, but I see now it appears they're charging for it. Don't know how much.
Is there a good tool from either Sybase or elsewhere that will enable me to debug stored procedures in Sybase ASE? I need to be able to set breakpoints & watchpoints.
Previously, in Sybase ASA (not ASE), I used Sybase Central to do this. There is a plugin for ASE, but I doubt it will let me debug procedures.
Sybase ASE comes with a command line debugger called sqldbgr. Not the most user friendly option, but it does work. You can find documentation for this in the Utility Guide.
Alternatively Embarcadero produces a SQL debugger.
You may take a look at Sybase Workspace. It's a database tool to support Sybase database servers. It comes with debug facility.
I seem to recall the Embarcadero SQL Debugger works for debugging Stored Procs in ASE. I think it is a plugin for DBArtsian. Check out their web site to get more.
Cheers,
Kevin
CAST SQL Builder (by castsoftware.com) has a debugger where you can do all the common tasks, step into, over, watch variables, select from temporary tables and so on. It's great tool, unfortunately, for home use, it costs.
Allethrin has provided the full answer.
But for this:
Alas, I need to debug some existing procedures to determine if they will break when new functionality is implemented elsewhere in the system
You certainly do not need a stored procedure debugger. Just read the stored procedure code.
The SQL editor QweryBuilder from Werysoft has a debugger for Sybase ASE: http://www.werysoft.com/
Aqua Data Studio from Aqua Fold has SQL debuggers for Sybase ASE and others (Oracle, DB2 LUW, and SQL Server).
Also, Sybase ASE ships with a command line sp debugger called sqldbgr.
Use Oracle SQL Developer. I'm presently working through a JDBC connection to a Sybase ASE database using this tool. This seems to be Eclipse-based, but is quite responsive and allows you to view source code for functions and procs too. There is also a debugger available.
To create a new Sybase connection, on the "New / Select Database Connection" window, just click on the Sybase tab, enter your hostname/port/username/password, choose a database to access, and that's it.
And this software is free of charge! One thing I love about Oracle is that they give away so many good stuff for free (think JDeveloper IDE for ADF, JRockit JVM and Mission Control, and this tool).
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/sql_developer/index.html