3.1EA1 bug: Exporting 300K records to a .xls or .xlsx file

Hello:
Exporting a large query result (300K records) into a .xls or .xlsx file will cause SQL Developer to hang. On some occurences, SQL Developer will not hang, but the file created is empty.
Thanks,
Adrian

Hi Adrian,
This is a known issue and even documented in the SQL Developer Help. Here are a couple of prior threads discussing it. To summarize their advice, either export to a csv file instead, or increase the Java VM's Xmx limit:
Re: Export to Excel Hangs
Re: the developer 3 crashed,when i exported the data out xls ,why?
Regards,
Gary
SQL Developer Team

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I have a video file (wmv) already prepared, and all I would like to now do is record a voice over for this file using Soundbooth CS4. My hunch is that I need to import the video into a multi-track file, and then I expect I'll export the multitrack file back to the WMV when I'm done. The problem is that when I hit the record button, I'm expecting to see the video playing but I don't.
Is there a way to add a voice-over / narration to an exisiting video file (in this case a video file without an audio track at all)

When you are recording, you are creating a new audio track and not playing the video, so you won't see it advance.
Best bet is to open the video in WMP, and record your audio in SB while it plays, to get the timing right, then open the video in SB and past the recording into it.
I'm not sure, but I believe the reason you can't play the vid and record at the same time is in case someone is recording new audio for a clip that has audio in it already, the old audio would play at the same time the recording is taking place and would screw it all up, so it either records one or plays the other, but not both at once.

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