September 1999
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 5m
English
Content preview from Oracle Web Applications: PL/SQL Developer's Intro
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PL/SQL Tools
There are many tools you can use to improve your PL/SQL development productivity. Table 6.2 shows some of the more popular, along with the web sites where they can be found, so you can download and experiment. In the following subsections, we’ll look at two of the most helpful tools, TOAD and PL/Formatter.
Table 6-2. Some Handy PL/SQL Development Tools
|
Tool |
Web Site |
|---|---|
|
CAST Workbench | |
|
FROG (Funky Resource for Oracle Gorillas) | |
|
Oracle Procedure Builder | |
|
PLEdit | |
|
PL/Formatter | |
|
SQL/Expediter | |
|
SQL Navigator | |
|
SQL*Object Builder | |
|
SQL Programmer | |
|
SQL Station | |
|
TOAD (Tool for Oracle Application Developers) |
TOAD
In the bad old days, developers wrote their PL/SQL programs with a text editor like vi or Notepad, then compiled them with SQL*Plus. If the program failed to compile because of a syntax error, about the only tool you had to help track down the error was the SQL command:
SELECT * FROM user_errors
Even then, you got little more information than a generic Oracle syntax error and an approximate line number where the error might have occurred. You had to go back to the code and hunt and peck to find the problem. It could take hours to track ...
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