To enhance your experience of building an Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service application, a plugin is available in Eclipse. This plugin connects to a running instance of Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service or Cloud Simulator and allows you to:

• Quickly get started with Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service by using the examples available with the plugin.
• Explore development/test data from tables in your Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service or Cloud Simulator.
• Build and test your queries.
• Retrieve columns, indexes, primary keys, and shard keys for each table.
• Build and test your SQL queries on a table and obtain results in a tabular format.

To use the Eclipse plugin:

1. Download the Eclipse plugin from Oracle Technology Network.
2. Follow the instructions given in the README file and install the plugin.
3. After installing the Eclipse plugin, you can connect to your Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service or Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Simulator and execute the code to read/write the tables. For more details, you can access the help content embedded with Eclipse. To access the help content:
   1. Click Help Contents from the Help menu.
   2. Locate and expand the Oracle NoSQL Plugin Help Contents section.
   3. This lists all the help topics available for Oracle NoSQL Plugin.
   4. Refer the help topic as per your requirement.