We found a last minute show-stopper, and combined with Summer vacations and conferences travel, it’s just taking a bit longer than usual to get things out-the-door. By default we’ll have all the connections come in, but you can choose now to weed out the ones you don’t use anymore. The version information is stored in a table called vversion.
Once you’ve done your import, your connections AND they’re associated folders and sub folders, will all come over. The PL/SQL Developer trial version is fully functional and has all the features youll find in the registered version, it is only limited by a trial period of 30 days. You can check the Oracle version by running a query from the command prompt.
You’ll have to supply a password to protect your connection passwords, and supply this on your new machine. You can connect to Oracle databases, and you can. With SQL Developer, you can browse database objects, run SQL statements and SQL scripts, edit and debug PL/SQL statements, manipulate and export data, and view and create reports.
Right click on the connection tree – top bit of the tree that is Oracle SQL Developer is a free graphical tool that enhances productivity and simplifies database development tasks.
Start SQL Developer up on your new machine, and import your preferences (you’ll have a file from doing an Export on your old machine). You could go cross OS I believe for the most part…but I’ve never tried this. When I say ‘copy over’, I mean, just copy them over to your new machine, in the equivalent new directory for whatever USER you have been given on your machine. NIX I just have the one, really old version of SQLDev on my VBOX ? Windows Each of these system directories represents the settings I’ve stored for a different version of SQL Developer on my machine. You can copy over the whole darned thing…or you could just grab the SqlHistory and .Y.Z directory for the version of SQL Developer you want to copy your preferences over from. PL/SQL Developer plugin version 1.0.0 released Feb 23, 2020. The ‘tricksy’ thing here is that Windows will generally hide the AppData folder from you, and unless you use the -a flag on your ls command, *NIX won’t show you. PL/SQL is one of three key programming languages embedded in the Oracle Database, along with SQL itself and Java. We store these in one of two places, depending on your Operating System.įor Windows: C:\Users\%USER%\AppData\Roaming\SQL Developerįor OSX and Linux: /home/%USER%/.sqldeveloper Bad news…you now have to move all your stuff over.įor SQL Developer this is pretty straight forward.