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2010-02-05 :: Jim Priest // Code + Reviews
Book Review: Oracle SQL Developer 2.1

I’ve been using Oracle SQL Developer I think since the very first initial betas.  I could never stand the TOAD interface and the few bugs I encountered with SQL Developer were never bothersome enough to stop using the tool. Over the years SQL Developer has matured very nicely and now is very stable and feature [...]

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2009-03-26 :: Jim Priest // Code
Oracle: Credential Retrieval Failed

Working on some Ant scripts and Oracle today and out of the blue I get this error: ORA-12638 credential retrieval failed Everything was working yesterday!  I restarted Oracle and my workstation – no luck!  Argh. A quick Google however turned up a simple solution – simply modify your sqlnet.ora file. On my machine running Oracle [...]

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I’ve been a big fan of Oracle’s SQL Developer for quite awhile.  When I first started using Oracle everyone at work was using TOAD but I just couldn’t get used to TOAD’s sometimes overwhelming interface.  Digging around I went looking for a free tool and stumbled across an early version of SQL Developer.  While a [...]

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2008-01-09 :: Jim Priest // Code
Speaking Of IDEs. JDeveloper Is Cool.

I am working on a new application at work and having some database issues and wanted to diagram some things out – I like pictures! :) I dug around on the web looking for an Oracle friendly ERD (entity-relationship diagram) tool. There were lots out there but most were in the $300+ range. The few [...]

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2007-02-13 :: Jim Priest // Code
Oracle 10g and SQL Developer

At work I’ve been using Oracle’s SQL Developer lately to do my database work. It has been working great until this week when we started working on migrating to Oracle 10g. I installed the new 10g client on my workstation and while I could still use SQL Developer to connect to my old 9x schemas [...]

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