Generate DDL formatting data incorrectly

Greetings all,
So I appear to have found the issue with my Generated DDL File. It is formatting the lines incorrectly and I have to manually go in and clean it up.
For example:
ALTER TRIGGER "BI_MIMPBM_CA_GROUP_LKP" ENABLE;CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER "BI_MIMPBM_CAT_LKP"
before insert on "MIMPBM_CAT_LKP"
for each row
begin
if :NEW."CATID" is null then
    select "CAT_LKP_SEQ".nextval into :NEW."CATID" from dual;
end if;
end;Notice how the ENABLE;CREATE are on the same line. That throws an error. I am not sure why as I thought the ; ended a piece of code, but when I do a carriage return on it and then put it in, it works. I am using Application Express 4.0.2.00.07 and not sure if it is the application or something I am doing in the formatting of my code when I create anything.
Is anyone else having this issue when generating DDL files? If so, is there a work around besides going through the whole script and adding carriage returns as necessary?
Thanks
Wally

Is Page 5 of Data Modeling (How to generate DDL(sql) scripts to create a database) of any help?

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Formatting data in table - jsp & jdbc

Hey there friends!
I was having a little problem formatting data and I was looking for help!
I want to format the data from jdbc as follows on a jsp page
THIS IS REPORT TO GENERATE
Name | Worked | Refused | Training | CarryOver
Jim | 10 | 5 | 2 | 5
Bob | 20 | 5 | 10 |
The resultset that I retrieve from my database is like this
RESULTSET
ID | Name | Type | Hours | CarryOver
1 | Jim | Worked | 10 | 5
1 | Jim | Refused | 5 | 5
1 | Jim | Training | 10 | 5
2 | Bob | Worked | 20 | 10
2 | Bob | Training | 5 | 10
Can anyone suggest what can be a done here?

As you have learnt something it is only fair for me for reciprocate.
The code example I gave you was psuedocode - not real java. You need to add in a couple more things to make it work correctly.
First we want to create an entry in the hash, iff there is no record already there, otherwise, we want to get the value and add our new value to it (let's say the map is called map):
String key = record.name + "/" + record.type; // Using combination string as the key - simplest solution
Long hours = map.get(key);
if (hours == null) {
hours = new Long(record.hours);
} else {
hours = new Long(hours.getValue() + record.hours);
map.put(key, hours);It would be better to use your own class to hold the long value - as this would save all the construction calls.

Problems Generating DDL

Has anyone else encountered problems when generating DDL Files for export?
I am using a hosted version of Application Express: Application Express 4.0.2.00.07 at this time and when I go to Generate a DDL file for export, it creates the file, but I am finding that it does not format the file correctly.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Below is an example of what happens: (It seems that it does not do a carriage return between the ; at the end of a create statement and the CREATE that begins the next statement) <b> ;CREATE TABLE </b>
CREATE TABLE "ANALYST"
   (    "ANALYSTID" NUMBER,
    "LASTNAME" VARCHAR2(30),
    "FIRSTNAME" VARCHAR2(30),
    "EMAIL" VARCHAR2(100),
    "WORKPHONE" VARCHAR2(25),
    "CELLPHONE" VARCHAR2(25),
    "ONCALLSTATUS" VARCHAR2(25),
    "ALTEMAIL" VARCHAR2(100),
    "ALTMESSAGING" VARCHAR2(100),
    "MESSAGING_TYPE" VARCHAR2(15),
    "TEXT_CONTACT" VARCHAR2(50),
     CONSTRAINT "ANALYST_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("ANALYSTID") ENABLE
   ) ;CREATE TABLE "APPLICATION_LOV"
   (    "APP_DISPLAY_VAL" VARCHAR2(255),
    "APP_RETURN_VAL" VARCHAR2(255),
    "PARENT_LOV" VARCHAR2(30),
    "APP_LOV_GROUP" VARCHAR2(30),
    "MSGID" NUMBER
   ) ;CREATE TABLE "RCCA_MAIN" It also seems to break on altering tables as well.
;ALTER TABLE "CORRECTIVE_ACTION" ADD CONSTRAINT "CORRECTIVE_ACTION_CON" FOREIGN KEY ("RCCAID")
      REFERENCES "RCCA_MAIN" ("RCCAID") ON DELETE CASCADE ENABLE;ALTER TABLE "INC_NOTES" ADD CONSTRAINT "INC_NOTES_CON" FOREIGN KEY ("INCIDENT_ID")
      REFERENCES "INCIDENT_DETAILS" ("INCIDENTID") ON DELETE CASCADE ENABLE;ALTER TABLE "PBM_LOB_SUBCATEGORY" ADD CONSTRAINT "PBM_LOB_SUBCATEGORY_CON" FOREIGN KEY ("LOB_NAME")
      REFERENCES "PBM_LOB" ("LOB_NAME") ON DELETE CASCADE ENABLE;CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "ANALYST_PK" ON "ANALYST" ("ANALYSTID") So I am just seeing if this is a bug in this version of the application or if there is something I might be doing wrong when I generate the DDL for output to a script file.
To fix it, I open the file and add the add a carriage return between each CREATE statement and ALTER TABLE statement. This can be quite cumbersome if you have a large amount of tables involved in the application. It does work, but I just don't believe that to be the required action to port an application for export.
Thanks for any feedback
Wally

Wally
You don't need to access to your instance with SQL Developer. You can copy/paste the generated DDL code into the SQL Developer (downloand and install http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/overview/index.html), and use it for formatting the code.
Btw, yes generated DDL code has no carriage returns between create table codes (I tested)
Regards
Gokhan

Generate DDL Performance

Version: 1.1.2.25 Main Build: 25.79
When selecting Generate DDL for a particular table the response is very slow and if one cancels the request SQL Developer freezes. Any thoughts/suggestions?
Thank you.

generate ddl is only for the data definitons language
if you want to have complete data too
use the exp export utility built-in with the database....\\\\\\
Try It.
Edited by: vansul on 22 May, 2010 1:02 PM

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