Category Archives: SQL Developer

SQL Developer (ZIP) with OpenJDK on MacOS

This blogpost looks at installing SQL Developer (this blog looks at version 24.3.1) without Java bundled. Note! This is not supported by Oracle, so if trouble you are on your own. There is really no reason to actually do this, because SQL Developer is bundled with Oracle Java (which requires no licenses when – at […]

SQL Developer, Database Copy and TRUNCATING unwanted tables

I just experienced something scary with SQL Developer and the “Database Copy” utility. One table in production was truncated by a mistake. I have always been a little against using the SQL Developer functionality “Database Copy …” in production, but for this one task during deployment of a new release, this customer (including me) have […]

SQL Developer Extension: Keep Alive

A “nice to have” extension for SQL Developer: https://github.com/scristalli/SQL-Developer-4-keepalive/wiki/English-guide