Unable to Set the Path To java.exe When Running Oracle SQL Developer Under Windows 7

I was trying to run Oracle SQL Developer for the first time on a new machine.  When firing it up, it presented me with a dialog box asking me to “Enter the full pathname for the java.exe file”.

OK, no problem.  So I find the path to the java.exe binary that was just installed with the SDK.  Hit submit . . . and nothing happens.  It blanks out the text field and the dialog box stares back at me.

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Executing Dynamically Generated SQL Queries in a Shell Script and Saving the Output to a Variable

If you would like to, in a shell script, dynamically generate SQL queries for MySQL and save the output of those queries to a variable that you can then use in the script, here is an example:

#!/bin/bash

for i in `cat tables_list.txt`
do

   # Build the query
   QUERY="SELECT count(*) FROM ${i}"

   # Run the query from the command-line and save the
   # output into the $ROW_COUNT variable
   ROW_COUNT=$(echo $QUERY | mysql -u${USER_NAME} -p${PASSWORD} -h ${HOST} -P ${PORT} --skip-column-names ${DBASE})

   
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