Entering and Modifying Data

You can use SQL Developer to enter data into Tables and to edit and delete existing table data. To do any of these operations, select the table in the Connections navigator, then click the Data tab in the table detail display. (If you click one of the other tabs -- Columns, Constraints, Grants, Statistics, Triggers, and so on -- you can view the information and perform relevant context menu (right-click) operations.)

The following figure shows the Data pane for a table named BOOKS, with a filter applied to show only books whose rating is 10, and after the user has double-clicked in the Title cell for the first book.

Interface for entering and modifying data

Icons and other controls under the Data tab provide the following options:

When you enter a cell in the grid, you can directly edit the data for many data types, and for all data types you can click the ellipsis (...) button to edit the data. For binary data you cannot edit the data in the cell, but must use the ellipsis button.

In the data grid, the context menu (right-click) includes the following commands:

You can copy and paste data between table grid cells and cells in a Microsoft Excel worksheet.

To copy table data to the clipboard, click the column header (for all column data) or select specific cells and press Ctrl+C; to copy the column header text along with the table data, press Ctrl+Shift+C.

To sort the display of rows by values within a column, double-click the column header; to switch between ascending and descending sorting, double-click the up/down arrow in the column header.

In the Data pane for a table or view, you can split the display vertically or horizontally to see two (or more) parts independently by using the split box (thin blue rectangle), located to the right of the bottom scroll bar and above the right scroll bar.

In the Data pane, the acceptable format or formats for entering dates may be different from the date format required by SQL*Plus.

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