And if the need arises, write your own reports your way. So I hope this inspires you to try the SQL Developer reporting features. Yes, I know this is against HTML best practices, but what can you do? There are several possible work-arounds, but what I advise is to put any styling that you want into "style" attributes in the HTML elements to be styled. It seems that SQL Developer ignores your section, including any section you might have put there.
#Apex sql data dictionary psp#
So what I did was compile my PSP with LOADPSP, then edited the resulting stored procedure, named DATA_DICTIONARY. But we aren't going to write to the web, we want to write our HTML to DBMS_OUTPUT.
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The specific toolkit procedure the compiled PSP uses is HTP.PRN which outputs all of the HTML. And the compiled PSP is actually a stored procedure that uses the PL/SQL Web Toolkit to write to the web - this is the same underlying technology as is used by Oracle Application Express - i.e. You compile it with the LOADPSP utility that comes with all Oracle databases, including Oracle XE. The PL/SQL is used for flow control like LOOPs and to embed data from the database into the page. īasically, a PSP is an HTML page with some PL/SQL embedded in it. I've written extensively about the many uses for PL/SQL server pages (PSPs) before, for instance, see this about using a PSP to produce Spreadsheet ML. So how did I write this? You COULD just hand write the PL/SQL, but since this is going to produce HTML, I like to write it as a PL/SQL server page. Then in SQL Developer you create it as a PL/SQL DBMS_OUTPUT style report:
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You can write your own report in PL/SQL to produce HTML that you output with the DBMS_OUTPUT built-in package.
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There are very good reports from the Oracle data dictionary that are built into SQL Developer, and I like the master child formatting they have where you can click on the table name and see information about the table's columns, but this is more of a report that you can print off if you need to, or read into an Excel spreadsheet. This is a data dictionary for the HR sample schema formatted according to my client's wishes for data dictionaries. One good way to build your own report is to copy one of the built-in reports and modify it.īut, what if I want something that none of the built-in reports has, or I want to do formatting that the reporting tools don't do natively? For instance, what if you want to print a report something like this?
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Specifically, look at the bottom of this page for links to Jeff's posts about the reporting capability. Have a look at Jeff Smith's blog ( ) for lots of great information about SQL Developer and SDDM.
#Apex sql data dictionary generator#
What kind of reporting? Well, for one thing, Oracle SQL Developer has a very good report generator built into it, and comes with a number of pre-written reports, including some for SDDM. For instance, I've used SQL Developer Data Modeler (SDDM) to design my database, and exported my models to a reporting repository in an Oracle XE database. Although I've been working a lot with SQL Server databases lately, I've never entirely left the Oracle world.