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Oracle SQL Developer All About Reporting Jeff Smith Senior Principal Product Manager Jeff.d.smith@oracle.com @thatjeffsmith

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Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle SQL Developer Overview de facto Oracle IDE/GUI 3,500,000+ users worldwide Windows, OS X, *NIX Installed with Oracle Database MOS via DB license

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. SQL Developer Release History Project Raptor (2005) ~ Oracle SQL Developer v1.0 (2006) Version 1.5 (2008) Version 2.1 (2009) Version 3.0 (2011) Version 3.1, 3.2 (2012) Version 4.0 (2013) REPORTS WERE HERE

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. That Panel You Look at But Never Click On? Routinely ask the same questions, run the same queries? Everyone, right? Yet only about 15-20% of users take advantage of the reporting feature

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. What is a Report? 1+ queries which back grids, output panels, or charts Defined & ran via SQLDev A Parent/Child report the top record drives the bottom report(s)

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Basic Report Features Define report once, run against any connection Grid output can be sorted, filtered, exported just like a query Optionally prompt user for values/binds Optionally drill down into other reports Render HTML (basic, 3.0 standard only) Export to PDF Also available via Command Line Interface > HTML

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Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Canned Reports Oracle provided reports You cant edit them, but you can copy them to a User Defined Report

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. User Defined Reports YOU supply the SQL YOU define how to display the results Can be saved & shared (XML) More on this later

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Parent/Child - Binds 1. Define Master Report 2. Add Child Report 3. To LINK data from master to child, BIND the data

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Charts, 50+ types to choose from in v4

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Defining Charts and Graphs Live preview your chart during design time Provide a connection to supply REAL data Tell SQLDev what data to feed to the charts

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Prompt User For Inputs Just like SQL, you can use binds : or substitution vars &, && Once defined in query you can customize prompts in Binds panel

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Report with Prompt(s)

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Drill Down Reports Call a related report Avail from Context Menu

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Trick #1: Code Actions Into Your Reports

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Trick #1: Edit the XML Add Some Code

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Trick #2: Multi-level Reports

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Smarter People Than Me Have Built Some Cool Reports Share/Get reports on the Exchange Get this report from @ba6dotus

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Sharing Reports Save your folder to XML Make it available Download/save Open in SQLDev Preferences > Third Party Extensions > Reports

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Reports + Command Line Interface = HTML

Copyright 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. The Tips in Blog Format SQLDev's Best Kept Secret: Reports Multi-Level Reports Adding Custom Actions Child Reports More On Charts Command Line to HTML Reports

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