SQL Developer: New worksheet, new session?

Default Behaviour The out of the box behaviour of SQL Developer is that SQL worksheets share the same connection. What does that mean? If you perform a insert, update or delete in one worksheet without issuing a commit, the result(s) can be viewed in another shared worksheet. This can be illustrated by the following example. […]

The incremental commit Anti-pattern

This is a far more opinionated post than usual. It is not meant to inflammatory, my goal for this post is to have something tangible that I can point to the next time an Oracle Developer thinks they want or need to “do” incremental commits. In this post an incremental commit is defined as code […]