Improving SQL Developer Performance and Eliminating Screen Redraw Issues on Vista
This isn’t anything Federal-specific, but I just wanted to share it since it has definitely made my day. I’ve been dealing with some SQL Developer performance issues for a while and due to heavy use lately in looking at a lot of conversion data and program code, the issues been getting more and more annoying. If you’re not familiar with the tool, SQL Developer is Oracle’s free DB query tool similar to TOAD, SQL Navigator, PL/SQL Developer, etc. Click here to goto Oracle’s SQL Dev page for more info and to download. I’ve been using SQL Dev since it first came out and have been pretty happy with it, especially since its free. However when I upgraded to Vista a while back, I started noticing that the SQL editor window would frequently garble the code when scrolling quickly such as:
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