SQL Developer

SQL Developer is the new interactiove SQL tool from Oracle. SQL Plus scripts are mainly compatible with it.

== Copying SQL Text ==
In SQL Developer when copying certain columns, the text is truncated. For instance, the SQL Text column of v$SqlText contains the ASCII code 0 as the terminator. If the results of the SQL_TEXT column are copied and pasted, then only up to the first terminator will be copied. This can be shown with this SQL: 

<pre>
select 
ADDRESS, HASH_VALUE, SQL_ID, COMMAND_TYPE, PIECE, SQL_TEXT, dump(SQL_TEXT)
from v$sqltext
where
order by hash_value,piece
;
</pre>

The solution is to remove the terminators:

<pre>
select 
ADDRESS, HASH_VALUE, SQL_ID, COMMAND_TYPE, PIECE, replace(SQL_TEXT,chr(0),'')
from v$sqltext
where
order by hash_value,piece
;
</pre>