SQL Developer 1.5: Tip of the Day Request

If you have found a hidden gem or have a keystroke or short cut that you use all the time, and you can describe it in a few sentences or small paragraph, let us know and we'll add it into the SQL Developer 1.5 Tip of the Day.
You can send your tips to us in 2 ways: using this thread or by adding it to the Exchange. The useful thing about the Exchange is that you can see and vote on each others tips, but adding to this thread might be easier. (Please don't use this thread for bugs.)
This should be fun and useful too. The developer team can add things that we think you might need to know about, but you can add things you really use.
Thanks!
Sue

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Andy

Hi Andy
Often a Tip of the Day is presented using a special help file
that contains only tips. And your developer creates code that
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Perhaps check out the links below.
Link
one
Link two
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Having a stressful day I was pleased to see the Tip of the Day on Microwave Safety. Duly noted.
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Blank Tip of the day window

Hi all,
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fyi
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Removing "Tip of the Day" Pop-up

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FROM table1
INNER JOIN
(SELECT
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AND ..... >= TRUNC(sysdate)
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Edited by: 894886 on 3/Nov/2011 5:29

Hi Rodrigo,
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Gary
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SQl developer installation and set up the connections

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cuteprathyu999 wrote:
Hi,
I m a new learner of Oracle - SQL. My doubt is can i have an test environment( a dummy) connection in SQL developer for my practice purpose in my local laptop.
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Pls guide from the basic
Thanks in Advance
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>
I now have SQL Developer 2.1.0.63.
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>
I think my Java version is also a bit old
>
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>
See section - Which JDBC drivers support which versions of Javasoft's JDK?
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>
Did you notice that last line?
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