Oracle SQL Developer Command Line (SQLcl) 19.1 Release Notes

Date: April 2019

These release notes contain the following:

Version Updates

New Features:

  • JSON Formatter Enhancements 

Bug Fixes: 

29128067 FORUM: UNRECOGNIZED "LOCK TABLE" SYNTAX
29474801 FORUM: BRACE MATCHING FAILURE
29128216 FORUM: CASE SYNTAX
29133925 FORUM: SYNTAX ERROR ON RETURNING CLAUSE
29141987 FORUM: DATE KEYWORD MAKES CODE UNPARSEABLE
29212343 FORUM: CONDITIONAL COMPILATION BUG
29222142 FORUM: REGRESSION ON HIGHLIGHTING MATCHING PARENTHESIS
29306340 FORUM: PARSING ERROR IN MEASURES OVER CLAUSEE
29306883 FORUM: YET ANOTHER PARSER BUG
29291846 FORUM: OPEN SCRIPT IN A WORKSHHET, MISSING CODE FOLDING
29266092 FORUM: PARSING ERROR AND WRONG GROUP BY ADVICE
28377838 UNEXPECTED BAD BIND VARIABLE RUNNING SCRIPT WITH :NEW.DEPTNO FOR TRIGGER
29003931 SQLCL COMMAND FAILS TO START WITH ERROR JANSI
29222411 IF CLOB IS MORE THAN 500 CHARACTERS OUTPUT IS INVALID
29279826 POPULATE NLS CALLED 3 TIMES IN A ROW
29282680 EXPORT TO HTML, IF SEARCH FILTER IS FILLED AND EMPTIED NO RECORDS ARE RETURNED
29334457 SQLCL GET NOCLASSDEFFOUNDERROR WHEN TRY TO SETUP SSH TUNNEL
29337896 ARBORI QUERY RETURNS EXTRA TUPLES
29393507 ATP:THE SAME NAME SYNONYM SHOULD NOT ADDED
29493734 COPY JANSI INTO SQLCL FAILS
29510102 FORMATTER INSERTING UNWANTED SPACES INTO NUMBER LITERALS

Before You Start

JRE Support

  • SQLcl release 19.1 requires Java version 1.8 and above. Go here to download the latest version.
  • If SQLcl cannot find a local JRE, you will be prompted to enter the location path for the JRE. Note that the prompt wants only the folder, not the java.exe.  For example C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_91
  • Java versions 9 and 10 are not yet supported.

Known Issues

  • Invoking SQL Recall for a previous statement which has a line exceeding the width of your display, the in-line editor will be unable to access or edit the line with the overflow. Workaround this issue by resizing your terminal display wide enough to prevent line-wrapping.

Platform Support

SQLcl release 19.1 is available for Windows 7,8,10 and Windows Server 2008/2012, Linux or Mac OS X. (See full Certification)

Installing or Upgrading

All new releases of SQLcl and SQL Developer require a full installation. Download and unzip the file into an empty folder. Ensure the "Use folder names" checkbox is checked when unzipping the file.

Support

Production Releases - you are supported by Oracle Support under your current database Support license for SQL Developer production releases. Log SQL Developer bugs and issues using My Oracle Support for the product.

Feedback

There are a number of different forums supporting the features in SQLcl. When using the forums, be sure to use clear subject lines to initiate a thread and try to avoid using old, unrelated threads for a new issue.

SQL*Plus List of Unsupported Commands and Features

Commands 

  •  REPHEADER
  •  REPFOOTER

System Variables and Environment Settings via the SET Command

  • autoprint
  • autorecovery
  • cmdsep
  • copytypecheck
  • describe
  • eschar
  • flagger
  • flush
  • fullcolname
  • logsource
  • loboffset
  • markup
  • recsep
  • recsepchar
  • shiftinout
  • sqlcase
  • sqlprefix
  • sqlterminator
  • tab
  • underline
  • xmloptimizationcheck