S1dd.com » MySQL http://www.s1dd.com My blog about everything not covered in my other blogs Mon, 30 May 2011 14:40:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Oracle GUI Clients http://www.s1dd.com/2007/04/oracle-gui-clients/ http://www.s1dd.com/2007/04/oracle-gui-clients/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:46:06 +0000 Sidd http://www.s1dd.com/2007/04/24/oracle-gui-clients/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> If you search for Oracle GUI Clients in Google, you turn up with nothing. After some more hunting, I found TOAD. I have been using the Free version of TOAD for a few weeks now but it is very annoying and has to be updated often. Also it can only make one connection at a time. The price of the full version > 800$!!
That’s an outrage, especially for us MySQL folks who can get SQLYog for free (which works perfectly well in Linux with wine).

A few days back I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on a new computer at work and was hunting for an Oracle client and I found TOra, an open source Oracle Client. I still haven’t got it connecting to Oracle from Ubuntu and the Windows version won’t even run. Hunting for ways to make it work, I found SQL Developer – which is made by Oracle themselves and is free. If only Oracle would have mentioned this on the download page for InstantClient, it would have saved me a few hours of searching, tinkering and complaining about a lack of choice in Oracle clients.

SQLDeveloper is a cross platform Java Oracle client and it is free and does everything that TOAD does as far as I can tell. No more TOAD for me.

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]]> http://www.s1dd.com/2007/04/oracle-gui-clients/feed/ 2 Gripe 3, 4 with Oracle – concat + magic quotes http://www.s1dd.com/2007/04/gripe-3-4-with-oracle-concat-magic-quotes/ http://www.s1dd.com/2007/04/gripe-3-4-with-oracle-concat-magic-quotes/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:41:46 +0000 Sidd http://www.s1dd.com/2007/04/12/gripe-3-4-with-oracle-concat-magic-quotes/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Concat:

Most of the database queries I run at some point are used to generate HTML and rather than go through the results of the query and add HTML to it in PHP or Ruby code, I like to get this out of the query itself.
So in MySQL my queries often look like this:

select concat(‘<a href=pagename.php?varid=”‘, varname, ‘”>’, varid, ‘</a>’) as varlink, …..

However for the same result in Oracle, which only allows two items in the concat function,
this turns into:

select concat(‘<a href=pagename.php?varid=”‘, concat(varname, concat(‘”>’, concat(varid, ‘</a>’)))) as varlink, …..

If there are multiple such items, the query becomes extremely ugly with too many brackets to keep track of.

Magic Quotes:

My next complaint about Oracle is no magic quotes – string values must be in single quotes, no double quotes allowed.

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