I have a list of tables in an Oracle Schema. I use SQL Developer to build my queries. I can click on each table within the schema in SQL Developer and get access to a number of tabs, one of which is 'Details':
Within the 'Details' window, I have a property called 'Comments' which contains a description of what the table is for.
Now, I have quite a few tables and I want to somehow grab the table name and description in that comments property for each table and put it into a spreadsheet. Is there any way to do that in SQL Developer? Maybe a query? Or some built in function that iterates over each table and provides that information? I thought about using python, but I'm not sure I can access the 'Details' of the table.
Every once in a while, I find a solution before i have some of you awesome people answer for me, so i thought I'd post up what I found. This is the query I found that works:
select * from all_tab_comments where owner = 'your_schema_name_here'
This provides a list of all the tables in the schema (owner) I want and provides the comments I was looking for. From there, I can just export to an excel spreadsheet.
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I saved a query I created in the SQL Developer Query Builder.
When I retrieved the query, the linked Tables don't show the Column Names in the Query Builder.
The Tables are still linked/joined to one another and the query still runs, but the columns names are blank.
How do I get the Column Name to reappear?
I'm new to SQL Developer, so I'm not sure how to resolve this issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Searched through the menus for something that would restore the columns names.
Searched through help option on SQL Developers and nothing found relating to this issue.
I was very tempted to delete this post when I found the answer myself.
However, I think there are more rookies out there like me.
The resolution is to add a semi-colon ";" to the end of the statement in the Worksheet Tab.
Even though I created the query in the Query Builder Tab, SQL Developer creates the SQL Statement in the Worksheet Tab.
So for some reason after you save that Query that was created in the Query Builder Tab; when you retrieve the script, you must add ";" to the end of the SQL Statement in the Worksheet Tab or else you get the issue I encountered with the blank columns.
I'm creating a compliance mailing for my organization, the mailing will include merge fields that identify the office location, physician, and SiteId. The mailing will also include a table of information that is dependent upon the particular SiteId.
I'd like to use the import table function of MS word and set up a query that references a merged field (SiteId) so that the inserted tables populate the appropriate data for the particular site. I'm unable to do this.
How can I set up this document so that I can import only records from my source (an ms access query) that match the SiteId merge field?
Word's mail merge does not support one-to-many relationships. There are ways to coerce it, but only one of them can yield a table as a result and over the years it has become less and less reliable as Microsoft has not regarded it as important enough to maintain...
What you need to do is set up a query that provides ONLY the information you want displayed in the table, plus the key (SiteId). It's best to sort it so that all the SiteId entries list together, and are in the order the data will come through in the mail merge data source.
On the Insert tab go to Text/Quick Parts/Insert Field and select the Database field from the list in the dialog box. Click "Insert Database" and follow the instructions in the dialog box to link in the data. Be sure to set the Query Options to filter on the first SiteId from the data source. When you "Insert Data" make sure to choose the option to "Insert as a field".
This inserts a DATABASE field in the document which you can see by toggling field codes (Alt+F9). The field code can be edited and what you need to do is substitute the literal SiteId value you entered for the query with its corresponding MergeField.
When you execute the merge to a new document that should generate a table for each data record corresponding to the SiteId for the record. But, as I said, Microsoft hasn't done a great job of maintaining this, so it may require quite a bit of tweaking and experimenting.
If the results are not satisfactory then you should give up the idea of mail merge and use automation code to generate and populate the documents.
You can find more (albeit somewhat out-dated) information on this topic at http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/mergfaq1.htm
As far as I can tell, the search filter in the navigator will only search available database names, not table names.
If you click on a table name and start typing, it appears that a simple search can be performed beginning with the first letter of the tables.
I'm looking for way to be able to search all table names in a selected database. Sometimes there can be a lot of tables to sort through. It seems like a feature that would likely be there and I can't find it.
Found out the answer...
If you type for example *.test_table or the schema name instead of the asterisk it will filter them. The key is that the schema/database must be specified in the search query. The asterisk notation works with the table names as well. For example *.*test* will filter any table in any schema with test anywhere in the table name.
You can use the command
SHOW TABLES like '%%';
To have it always in your tools, you can add it as a snippet to SQL aditions panel on the right.
Then you can always either bring it in your editor and type your search key between %%, or just execute it as it is (It will fetch all the tables of the database) and then just filter using the "filter rows" input of the result set.
I have a database with about 50 something tables. I would like to run the report "Data Dictionary" on each table.
Ideally, I would like them all to be in one report, for example, in PGAdminIII, if I right click select "Tables" I will get a report of all the 'objects' and under each one a data dictionary report.
Is there an automatic way of doing this, or an plugin that I can install to postgres? Or is there something analogous to this?
If I understand correctly, you're referring to the ability to right mouse click on a table in PgAdminIII and select Reports > Data Dictionary report?
I'm not aware of any way to do that from PgAdminIII. You could look into using a different tool such as SchemaSpy. Another option (as alluded to by #kgrittn) is to use psql \d with the \H flag to generate html output. My solution (since SchemaSpy didn't do what I needed, and I needed the same output for both Postgres and Oracle) was to roll my own using perl, DBD::Pg and Template::Toolkit.
Update: Added GitHub link.
I wrote a fairly simple Postgres data dictionary generator in Python that spans all schemas and tables within a specified database. If it doesn't have exactly what you want it would be fairly easy to modify.
https://github.com/kylejmcintyre/pypostgreports
In PgAdmin, is it possible to search for a value in ALL tables? In phpmyadmin this is possible and quite convenient. You search for an ID value and find all the tables in which it occurs. I can't seem to find this function in PgAdmin.
Does it exist?
It currently doesn't exist in PgAdmin.
There's custom function for this. You can use it from Query tool. See [How to search a specific value in all tables (PostgreSQL)?
](as of today, there are two modifications in answers there that include column name, progress reporting)