I would also like to be able to use SQL*Plus on the Mac side. I’m connecting to a Oracle 19 EE database on a Windows 7 VM that runs through VMWare Fusion. I have SQL Developer 19 running on my Macbook Air.

Hi Jeff, Thank you for sharing your expertise and sense of humor. I’ve noticed to get multi-select drag and drop to work with my Magic Mouse touchpad, I have to end the shift+select and drag from that end-point immediately and then drop where I want it – all while holding the SHIFT key…if I let go of the ‘mouse’ and then try to drag, I get back into a single selection again.Īnyways, this is probably me not reading the Mac docs or doing the right Google search, but just in case it helps you 🙂 I’d make an animated GIF, but I haven’t setup Camtasia yet… I like to drag and drop multiple things from the tree to an editor or a diagram. Anti-aliasing preference is on the ‘Display’ page A Mac Quirk? I’ve downloaded the Droid fonts, free with Apache dist license 🙂 I didn’t know how to install fonts on a Mac until I read this great tutorial. Apparently this can help with ‘blurry’ text. I’ve enabled font anti-aliasing – folks with Retina displays pay attention here. I’m using the OS X Look and Feel – see yesterday’s post for details.

It’s going to help a lot if you’re already familiar with Linux commands and ‘customs’… Make It Pretty If you need to mess with any of the JVM settings or even specify WHICH Java to use, you’ll need to go into your $HOME directory. We’ll officially support Java 8 in the next release of SQL Developer but it’s OK to run now (note that I’m using version 4.0.3!) If you want to follow the official directions, these should help. You’ll need to make sure you have java… Getting java installed on the Mac is easy too, you can just ask for it!

If it doesn’t work, there’s probably a Java problem. Once you’ve done this, it should be ready to go. Or just copy and paste the contents over… I like to rename it here, so I know what version I’m opening when I access it from the Dock You’ll want to extract it in your Applications space in Finder. You just download the file from OTN, and extract it. We don’t have a download installation package. It’s also a good way to see how the other 10% of our users work, live, and breathe in SQL Developer. My home machine is a MacBook Air running OS X Yosemite.ĩ8% (made up number) of the posts on this site were written using my Windows machine.īut now that I’ve discovered that my SnagIt license is also valid on my Mac, I’m trying to do more writing there. My work machine is a Dell laptop running Windows 7.

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