PL/SQL Developer 14.0 User’s Guide February 2020 PL/SQL Developer 14.0 User’s Guide 3 Contents CONTENTS ........................................................................................................................................... 3 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 10 2. INSTALLATION ..................................................................................................................... 13 2.1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS.................................................................................................... 13 2.2 INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION ............................................................................................. 13 2.3 SILENT INSTALLATION....................................................................................................... 13 2.4 UNINSTALLING PL/SQL DEVELOPER ................................................................................ 13 3. LOGGING ON TO AN ORACLE DATABASE .................................................................... 14 4. WRITING PROGRAMS ......................................................................................................... 15 4.1 CREATING A PROGRAM ...................................................................................................... 15 4.2 SAVING A PROGRAM .......................................................................................................... 16 4.3 MODIFYING A PROGRAM ................................................................................................... 17 4.4 COMPILING A PROGRAM .................................................................................................... 17 4.5 COMPARING A PROGRAM ................................................................................................... 18 4.6 COMPILER PREFERENCES ................................................................................................... 19 5. TESTING PROGRAMS .......................................................................................................... 20 5.1 CREATING A TEST SCRIPT ................................................................................................. 20 5.2 EXECUTING A TEST SCRIPT ............................................................................................... 21 5.3 VARIABLE TYPES ............................................................................................................... 22 5.4 SAVING TEST SCRIPTS ....................................................................................................... 23 5.5 TRACKING RUN-TIME ERRORS ........................................................................................... 24 5.6 PACKAGE STATES & JAVA SESSION STATES ....................................................................... 24 5.7 VIEWING RESULT SETS ...................................................................................................... 24 5.8 VIEWING DBMS_OUTPUT ................................................................................................... 24 5.9 VIEWING HTP OUTPUT ...................................................................................................... 25 5.10 DEBUGGING ...................................................................................................................... 25 5.11 TRACING EXECUTION ........................................................................................................ 30 5.12 REGRESSION TESTING ........................................................................................................ 31 5.13 CREATING STANDARD TESTS ............................................................................................ 31 6. OPTIMIZING .......................................................................................................................... 32 6.1 USING THE EXPLAIN PLAN WINDOW ................................................................................. 32 6.2 AUTOMATIC STATISTICS .................................................................................................... 34 6.3 THE PL/SQL PROFILER ..................................................................................................... 35 6.4 SQL TRACE ....................................................................................................................... 35 7. AD HOC SQL ........................................................................................................................... 37 7.1 USING THE SQL WINDOW ................................................................................................. 37 7.2 RESULT GRID MANIPULATION............................................................................................ 39 7.3 QUERY BY EXAMPLE MODE .............................................................................................. 45 7.4 LINKED QUERIES ............................................................................................................... 46 7.5 SUBSTITUTION VARIABLES ................................................................................................ 47 7.6 UPDATING THE DATABASE ................................................................................................ 48 7.7 VIEWING AND EDITING XMLTYPE COLUMNS .................................................................. 49 7.8 COMPARING RECORDS ....................................................................................................... 49 7.9 COMPARING RESULT SETS ................................................................................................. 50 7.10 DIRECT QUERY EXPORT .................................................................................................... 51 7.11 COMMENT DIRECTIVES ...................................................................................................... 51 7.12 SAVING SQL SCRIPTS ....................................................................................................... 52 4 PL/SQL Developer 14.0 User’s Guide 7.13 CREATING STANDARD QUERIES ........................................................................................ 52 8. THE COMMAND WINDOW ................................................................................................. 54 8.1 ENTERING SQL STATEMENTS AND COMMANDS ................................................................ 54 8.2 DEVELOPING COMMAND FILES .......................................................................................... 55 8.3 SUPPORTED COMMANDS.................................................................................................... 55 8.4 EXPORT TABLES COMMAND SYNTAX ................................................................................ 58 8.5 EXPORT OBJECTS COMMAND SYNTAX ............................................................................... 59 9. CREATING AND MODIFYING NON-PL/SQL OBJECTS ................................................ 60 9.1 THE TABLE DEFINITION EDITOR ......................................................................................... 60 9.2 THE SEQUENCE DEFINITION EDITOR .................................................................................. 73 9.3 THE SYNONYM DEFINITION EDITOR ................................................................................... 73 9.4 THE LIBRARY DEFINITION EDITOR ..................................................................................... 74 9.5 THE DIRECTORY DEFINITION EDITOR ................................................................................. 74 9.6 THE JOB DEFINITION EDITOR ............................................................................................. 75 9.7 THE QUEUE DEFINITION EDITOR ........................................................................................ 75 9.8 THE QUEUE TABLE DEFINITION EDITOR ............................................................................. 76 9.9 THE USER DEFINITION EDITOR ........................................................................................... 77 9.10 THE ROLE DEFINITION EDITOR ........................................................................................... 80 9.11 THE PROFILE DEFINITION EDITOR ...................................................................................... 80 9.12 THE DATABASE LINK DEFINITION EDITOR .......................................................................... 81 10. DBMS SCHEDULER .............................................................................................................. 82 10.1 CREATING OBJECTS ........................................................................................................... 89 10.2 EDITING OBJECTS .............................................................................................................. 89 10.3 DELETING OBJECTS ........................................................................................................... 89 10.4 VIEWING JOB RUNS ........................................................................................................... 89 10.5 VIEWING RUNNING JOBS.................................................................................................... 90 11. DIAGRAMS ............................................................................................................................. 91 11.1 CREATING A DIAGRAM .....................................................................................................