How to edit Oracle field data type in SQL Developer

1. Click table name in left tree.

 

2. Click the “Edit” button.

3. then will show “Edit Table” form, select the field you want to edit in “Columns” list.

4. Then you can change the “Type”, here is from “CLOB” to “NCLOB”.

Click “OK”. Done!

Oracle → SQL reference

Type mapping

Value kindin Oraclein SQL
IntNUMBER(10)INT
BigintNUMBER(19)BIGINT
DecimalNUMBER(p,s)DECIMAL(p,s)
FloatBINARY_DOUBLEDOUBLE PRECISION
TextVARCHAR2(n)VARCHAR(n)
Long textCLOBTEXT / CLOB
BinaryBLOBBLOB / BYTEA
BooleanNUMBER(1)BOOLEAN / SMALLINT
JSONCLOBJSON / TEXT

Dialect differences

Oracle is a database server and SQL is a file format, so the gap is wider than a dialect difference – the rows below are where values and structure stop lining up.

Propertyin Oraclein SQL
port1521—
identifiers"double quotes"Two competing conventions: single-quoted literals and diale...
row limitFETCH FIRST n ROWS ONLY—
datesDATE, TIMESTAMPDepends on the dialect: DATE literals, TO_DATE(), or plain ...
long textCLOB, NCLOB—
binaryBLOB, BFILEDialect-specific: X-quoted literal, 0x hex, or decode()
separator—Statement terminators (;)
encoding—No declaration
typing—Types belong to the target database, and they differ betwee...
shapeTables of rows and columnsStatements; a dump usually means CREATE TABLE plus INSERT rows
ceiling—No formal limit, but a single INSERT statement has to fit i...

Command line

SideCommand
Oracleexp / expdp
Oracle (load)sqlldr (SQL*Loader)

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