Changing the GUI language in SQL Developer

By default, SQL Developer uses the default language of the operating system, e.g.
in Windows platform, the language settings in Regional and Language Options.

There are two ways to change the GUI language in SQL Developer.
1. Change the regional settings .
  In Windows go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options
(This also affects the language used on your computer and other applications and you may need to restart machine to be effective)

2.  Edit \sqldeveloper\bin\sqldeveloper.conf file
 - Add/modify the following parameters:

AddVMOption -Duser.language=en
AddVMOption -Duser.country=US
AddVMOption -Duser.region=US

Then, restart the SQL Developer

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SQL Developer 3.0 officially released

SQL Developer 3.0 has been officially released in Mar-2011 and is now available for download. It is good to see Oracle has added many new features, especially Oracle Data Modeler now has been integrated with it. Though I cannot say SQL Developer 3 can be a complete replacement for other commercial SQL development and database management products like Toad and PL/SQL, it is enough for DBA daily tasks and development.

SQL Developer still has its advantage -it is FREE ;-)

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Birthday gift for my sister

Months ago, I was surprised to hear that my sister started to bring lunch box for work. That's a good start for her healthy lifestyle.  So, I decided to buy a lunch box to her for her birthday present this year. It took me a whole day to find this cute and stylish Japan lunch box from FrancFranc. It is a small one and a perfect size for her lunch. Hope she will enjoy using it everyday^^.











































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Test code syntax highlight

Thanks to the author of this blog--http://heisencoder.net/2009/01/adding-syntax-highlighting-to-blogger.html for providing info about how to add syntax highlight for blogger.


This function has already been available in wordpress for quite a while, and only until recently I found it also work for blogger. I have added code syntax highlight to this blog and the setup is quite easy.


Here is an example of code with syntax highlight

begin
dbms_output.put_line('hello world');
end;



Though this highlight plugin looks great, there is problem with it --cannot wrapping long line automatically.

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Useful site -- mgtfy.com

lmgtfy.com is a very funny website. It has been here for awhile. I like it because it saved me lots of hours in my workplace.
I use it a lot someone ask me some questions that the answers should be easily found in Google, I would type the keyword in lmgtfy.com and send the output link from this website to those guys. Dont get me wrong!  I dont mean questions from those people are meaningless, I just want to tell them Google can provide better answers than I do ;-)


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