Column numbers in SQL Developer

This may seem picky; but I find it frustrating to get error messages of the form error in line 35 column 83 and then not have a convenient way other than counting to find line 35 and column 83. Is there a way to jump to the error point? If not, is there an option to show a column ruler?

Jim Smith (and RaghvendraSaboo and Sentinel):
Many thanks for the prompt and helpful replies. These work!
I hope to someday reach the competence level to be able to be so helpful to others on this path of enlightenment.
One more question: Is there any way to help SQL Developer do a better job of screen rendering? If I scroll quickly either vertically or horizontally in a table or a query result, part of my screen becomes unreadable. An Alt-Tab to another application and then an Alt_Tab back always clears it up; but the process gets old very quickly. I experience this on all three of my PCs with SQL Developer.
Is anyone else having the problem? Can I change some setting to avoid it?
-Dave

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BUG: SQL Developer 1.5.3 CSV export column order broken

There's a bug in the 1.5.3 release of SQL Developer regarding data export. This bug re-orders the column order in the data export to be alphabetically sorted. This produces mangled CSV files if used on a table or a view.
This is a critical bug to me since I need to produce lots of ad-hoc data CSV export files. I'm staying with SQL Developer 1.5.0.53 (53.38) for now as it doesn't have this problem.
This is the same bug as present in Jdeveloper 11.1 as described in my post here: BUG: Jdev 11.1.1.0.0 -- DB table data export column order is not preserved
Quoted from that post:
When I connect to Oracle database, get the table list, right click on the table and select 'Export Data'->csv. The dialog box opens with three tabs: Format, Columns, Where. The column order displayed in both tabs Columns and Where is alphabetic. Because alphabetic ordering re-arranges columns from their initial ordering in the table, this screws up CSV export because columns are not in their intended order. This same problem occurs when I try to export data from views to generate a CSV file with a particular column order.
Please open/check bug report if it's already open.
Thanks!

This happens with all of the export options for tables or views if you right click from the connections tab table list. If I pull it up in the main window and go to the data tab, I can then right click and it will keep the column id order for some of the views and tables. But not all.
I am running 1.5.3 Build Main 5783 on a Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 platform

Bug in SQL Developer relating to handling of XMLTYPE columns

Hi,
I have found a bug in SQL Developer relating to its handling of XMLTYPE columns.
Given a table with the following data:
ID, XML_DATA
1, <xml here>
2, <xml here>
3, <xml here>
And the following SQL to extract a value from the XML and also an XML fragment as an XMLTYPE:
SELECT
EXTRACTVALUE(t.column_value,'/*/USER_ID/text()')user_id
, t.column_value user_data
FROM dbuser.mytable m
, TABLE(XMLSEQUENCE(EXTRACT(m.xml_data, '/*/USER_LIST/USER'))) t
I get the following:
user_id, user_data
jsmith26, (XMLTYPE)
mjones45, (XMLTYPE)
sborga31, (XMLTYPE)
Note that the user_id is correctly extracted, however the XMLTYPE column (user_data) is empty in SQL Developer.
The same query returns the correct XML data in TOAD.
Edited by: 1008733 on May 29, 2013 5:07 PM

Steve,
So your example is slightly more complex than the one documented for a table in the standard OE schema here:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/functions052.htm
That example works fine on an 11.2.0.1 database with SQL Developer 3.2.20.09.87. Please try the following with your case:
Tools -> Preferences -> Database -> Advanced -> Display Struct Value In Grid (check it off if not already)If that still does not work for Run Statement (query result displayed in the grid, not as script output using Run Script), then please provide a test case based on the Warehouse table in the OE schema (or your case with DDL and DML scripts including the xml data) and I will log a bug.
Thanks,
Gary
SQL Developer Team

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