Oracle SQL Developer

Reports1.9 ReportsRelated TopicsRunning and Debugging Functions and ProceduresUsing the SQL WorksheetSQL Developer provides many reports about the database and its objects. You can alsocreate your own user-defined reports. To display reports, click the Reports tab on theleft side of the window (see SQL Developer User Interface). If this tab is not visible,select View and then Reports.Individual reports are displayed in tabbed panes on the right side of the window; andfor each report, you can select (in a drop-down control) the database connection forwhich to display the report. For reports about objects, the objects shown are only thosevisible to the database user associated with the selected database connection, and therows are usually ordered by Owner.To see the SQL statement used to retrieve the information for a report, click the SQLicon above the report and to the right of the database connection. Clicking this icondisplays the statement in the SQL Worksheet (see Using the SQL Worksheet).The time required to display specific reports will vary, and may be affected by thenumber and complexity of objects involved, and by the speed of the networkconnection to the database.For most reports that contain names of database objects, you can double-click theobject name in the report display pane to display that object in a detail view pane, justas if you had selected that object using the Connections navigator.Reports are grouped in the following categories:About Your Database reports list release information about the database associatedwith the connection.Database Administration reports list usage information about system resources.Table reports list information about tables owned by the user associated with thespecified connection. These reports can help you to better understand the metadataand data. The table reports include Quality Assurance reports that indicate possiblelogical design flaws and sources of run-time performance problems.PL/SQL reports list information about your PL/SQL objects and allow you to searchthe source of those objects.Security reports list privilege-related information about the database.XML reports list information about XML objects.Jobs reports list information about jobs running on the database.Streams reports list information about stream rules.All Objects reports list information about all objects accessible to the user associatedwith the specified database connection, not just objects owned by the user.Data Dictionary reports list information about the data dictionary views that areaccessible in the database. Examples of data dictionary views are ALL_OBJECTS andUSER_TABLES.User Defined reports are any customized reports that you have created.1-22 SQL Developer Online Help