In my previous article I showed you different ways to edit column comments in Oracle with Oracle SQL Developer. Now, I want to show you how to view and edit column comments.

Describing schema elements can save you later from a lot of guesswork and errors - table and column names are not always self-explanatory.

View table comments

To view table comment select table and go to Details tab. Scroll down to the last attribute called Comments.

Edit table comments

Option 1: comments editor (recommended)

To edit table comments select table, right click and choose Table > Comment...:

This will open table comments editor:

Type in comments in Comment field and save with Apply button.

Option 2: table editor

Just as in case of column comments, you can edit comments with table editor. Again, please be careful as you can change table structure by accident.

To enter table editor select table, right click and choose Edit... option:

Table level comments are available in Comment tab.

When finished save with OK button. Please note this will apply all the changes you made to the table design.

That's it. Now that you have put descriptions into the database it's time to think how to get them out in a usable format.

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