What is Server Explorer Integration?
The Server Explorer Window is a component of Visual Studio that consists of a tree control that allows you to browse data connections and servers. Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio integrates with Server Explorer and allows you to browse Oracle Database and also to manage and browse your Oracle Autonomous Databases.
Once a connection has been established to Oracle Database under the Data Connections node, you can expand the tree control and explore your database.
The expanded tree control contains several types of nodes:
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Connections: User connections to a particular database.
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Schema objects: Objects that a schema defines, such as tables, views, triggers, or other objects that comprise a relational database.
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Schema Object Categories: Groupings of database objects, such as tables, functions, views, and so on.
You can customize the hierarchies of the schema objects using the Server Explorer Nodes Option Page. See Data Connections Options Page.
To display the tree structure, double-click the main node, which is Data Connections. To expand a collection node to display its child nodes, click the carat symbol next to the node. To find out information about a node or perform actions on it, right-click the node to display a menu.
