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Oracle SQL Developer
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Oracle SQL Developer

by Ajith Narayanan, Susan Harper
January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
8h
English
Packt Publishing
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Editing database objects – putting context menus to work

Each object in the Connections navigator has a context menu associated with it. Each context menu invokes a dialog that supports SQL commands that range from a single, simple command (such as DROP TABLE HR.COUNTRIES) to a collection of basic and complex commands. Throughout the chapter, we have stated that any of the activities that we're performing uses a UI as an interface for the underlying SQL command. Certainly, typing the drop table command is faster than selecting the items and invoking the dialog, assuming of course that you know the syntax. In this section, we'll briefly single out a few of these context menus.

Editing objects

Each of the Create dialogs has a matching Edit dialog. ...

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