Last month Oracle released a statement of direction for SQL Developer (here it is). Apart from the enhanced testing capabilities the most important feature will be the support of graphical logical and physical data modeling - just like you normally would do using Oracle Designer - using the acquired CDW4ALL extension. This modeling can be [...]

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Using the Preferences of SQL Developer you can register a User Defined Extension (UDE). This UDE is just a small XML file containing a command or query. If your Oracle Designer Repository is queriable by the user you use for your connection, you can show the Table Definitions in Designer alongside the definitions in the [...]

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and wants to upgrade to Forms 10g without the fuss of upgrading Headstart 3.4.2 to 6.5.4?
At our Oracle Competence we run a succesfull Designer/Developer migration solution in which we had to upgrade a Designer 1.3.2 repository to 10g, including the use of the latest version of Headstart.
It’s no fun to modify all the Forms code [...]

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At our Oracle Competence we run a succesfull Designer/Developer migration solution in which we upgrade Forms from version 3.0-9i to 10g. Every now and then one of our customers raises the question if it’s possible to run Oracle Webforms in client-server mode “like they used to do”.
The arguments against running webforms in a browser are [...]

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If there is a requirement to produce output from an application into Excel, you would probably create a CSV (Comma Separated File) with the data and start Excel to show the data - at least that’s what I did…until now. The drawback of this solution is that you could only produce data and no nice [...]

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I found a nice blog where the future of Forms is described. Click here for the complete article.
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Last week we encoutered the problem that reading a 10,000 record csv-file took 45 minutes from a location in Belgium. From The Netherlands it took about 20 minutes. The Application Server and Database Server is located in the UK. The difference is due to available band width.
The performance from both locations were not acceptable. How [...]

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