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What is SQL Developer?
Oracle SQL Developer is an integrated development environment (IDE) which provides editors for working with SQL, PL/SQL, Stored Java Procedures, and XML in Oracle databases.
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Great lightweight tool
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Free, simple to use and complete development IDE for Oracle databases
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Easiest SQL IDE
Intuitive and powerful, provides tools and utilities users to handle advanced user requirements
Software for everyone using DB
Must-have SQL editor
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What is SQL Developer?
Oracle SQL Developer is an integrated development environment (IDE) which provides editors for working with SQL, PL/SQL, Stored Java Procedures, and XML in Oracle databases.
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(1-25 of 53)Easy data surfing
- Export Data
- Run SQL statements
- Browse Database Objects
- Search for a specific object in the database
- Debug
Oracle SQL Developer - Free Rool
- Structure Oracle Database objects
- Intuitive navigation
- Export Data
- Java dependency
- Autocomplete issues
Great lightweight tool
- It has allowed for very seamless integration with all versions of Oracle databases without the need for complicated setup.
- It has a very easy set-up and installation process and has maintained cross-OS compatibility exceptionally well.
- It allows for native Oracle SQL database features integration.
- There are constant unexplained crashes that are not particularly well explained.
- There is very little documentation about how to use features.
- there seems to be no way to extend the tool for custom plugins.
- The various contents of a database can be viewed using the connection tree
- We can run SQL queries to generate reports in various formats
- Debugging of queries is smooth
- More RAM usage by SQL Developer which makes it slow sometimes for big queries
- The database automatically gets disconnected when it is idle for sometime
- Auto-completion of queries is not available
One of the fine IDE tool - Oracle SQL Developer
- The efficient connectivity with various Oracle and relational databases.
- The options for fastest query building and execution. The debugging options also displays exact error message of the query, if any bug in query.
- We can export extracted data in various file formats.
- Simple user interface and effective functions for user friendliness.
- When the connected database is disconnected due to some issues, the re-connection option does not work properly all the time.
- For the long time executions, tool gets unstable state.
- The report and documentation features need to updated.
- Ability to browse across all database components and easily modify or drop them, or create new ones.
- Very simple to use and learn, yet includes many personalization options (like snippets and SQL history)
- You can define window border colors for different connections, thus easily identifying production or sensitive environments at glance!
- Import and Export data in a very simple way
- Being a JAVA application, response times are sometimes not as good as native applications
- Sometimes it uses more RAM than expected
- Sometimes gets disconnected from DB
- [You] can connect multiple databases [very] easily.
- [Anyone] can write [queries] easily and see the errors.
- [It] generates [an] execution plan, which helps to optimize the query.
- [Good] filtering and reporting is not available.
- [More] documentation should be available in software so that user will get all the help in it.
- [Memory] usage should be less.
Easiest SQL IDE
- Very simple UI. Also quite user friendly.
- Debugging seems very easy if there is any issue.
- It's a freeware and easy to install.
- Also does support to connect with various kinds of databases.
- When usage is really heavy, it lags a lot.
- It automatically gets disconnected if haven't used for some amount of time.
- Needs more detailed documentation.
It’s not ideal for no relational/noSQL or big data. It is not tool for visualization. It’s best suited for querying using SQL. Companies that are looking for free tools that are robust and most useful should definitely look at it.
Intuitive and powerful, provides tools and utilities users to handle advanced user requirements
- Easy interface with large selection of useful utilities.
- Import and export of pre-configured SQL connections for easy duplication.
- Snippets, history, and other utilities add quick custom functionality.
- Some database design tools found in other SQL tools are not yet available.
- Customizing utility windows does not save after restarting application.
Software for everyone using DB
- Simple UI. Even new joiners can easily use it.
- Autocomplete feature. It recommends a completion for every line.
- Debugging is easy. Oracle SQL Developer displays what ever the error is.
- Supports various kind of DB. Not just SQL.
- Easy installation and setup.
- It is free to use and one doesn't need to buy anything.
- Easily export data into different formats like Excel, TSV file, text file, html, etc.
- There are fewer features compared to other software available in market.
- Good quality reporting, sorting ,filtering features are not available.
- Lags upon heavy usage.
- Connection from DB gets disconnected if query is stopped.
- Query running status still comes even if at the backend the query has been stopped and person keeps on waiting.
SQL developer is not suited to a person who is a database administrator or works on creating big stored procedures, as it will feel laggy and supports fewer features.
Must-have SQL editor
- Database querying SQL
- Data modeling and design
- Database explorer
- Data filtering, export/import
- Database object management
- Data migration
- Debugging
- Version control
- OLAP
- Analytics reports
- Sessions
- Database comparision
- Better user interface
- Native support for other databases
- Autocompletion
- Performance
It’s not ideal for no relational/noSQL or big data. It is not tool for visualization. It’s best suited for querying using SQL. Companies that are looking for free tools that are robust and most useful should definitely look at it.
SQL Developer Review
- Extract DDL for tables and indexes.
- Provide statistical information from the data dictionary in an easy manner.
- Help interface for command syntax is good when it works.
- Help for legacy commands from SQL Plus- Some commands are deprecated but there is no explanation for what type of syntax to use instead.
- Ability to start SQL Developer command line in the directory from which the command was launched (instead of SQL Developer home).
- Spool without control characters.
- Extracting DDL for tables and index is great.
- Extracting DDL for constraints is not and using dbms_metadata is required.
- Obtaining help for SQL commands would be great, like "help alter table".
- Same for easily looking up Oracle errors (so merge SQL developer command line with the OERR facility)
- Procedural interfaces with data pump import/export would be great too (automatically generate the calls to dbms_datapump).
My Oracle SQL Developer Review
- Oracle SQL Developer's navigation bar has a lot of useful tools. When first learning how to use this product, it was very easy to move around and figure out what needed to be done.
- This product allows you to organize schemas on a side bar view, which is very useful when working with multiple databases.
- You can customize schema names to your liking, it does not have to be the same as others on the team.
- Oracle SQL Developer is not the best tool for extracting data. If you want an excel sheet for all the outputted result data, it can take a very long time. This is tough for business users.
- This tool does not allow you to monitor a system that is running as easy as other products similar to it.
- Oracle SQL Developer is not as advanced in functionality as some other tools. For basic developers, this tool gets the job done. For more complex database management, I would suggest other software.
SQL developer for dummies
- SQL Developer is easy to navigate and open database structures like tables, packages, procedures, etc.
- Easy to connect to set up database connectivity using service name/SID information.
- SQL Developer UI is very simple to understand and operate by the users and has a quick connect and load time of applications.
- Easy to check the Explain plan assessing the cost of the SQL queries and thus helping in tuning.
- Lacks the advanced options for a professional developer like accessing the dependent objects of a particular database object like Indexes, triggers, etc.
- Lacks features do not have the SQL session monitoring capability and managing other Oracle sessions.
- It does not give a clear indication of query status, whether it is running or stuck.
- Build and analyze SQL.
- Extract DDL.
- Provides a quick overview of the Schema Structure.
- Clunky, could use some basic UI improvements.
- Returns only 100 lines at a time when querying DB.
- Basic Oracle management functionality would be nice (check sizes of tablespaces, etc).
Great for non-DBA users
- SQL Developer is useful for navigating the DDL of a table.
- Easy-to-understand errors and explanations on incorrect queries.
- Quick load time of application from start-up.
- Explain plans are very helpful in tuning.
- Never know when a query has been truly terminated. Even if one has access to the SQL Monitoring or Monitoring SQL Sessions, it still may show as being terminated but in actuality, within OEM, the query could still be running and need to be killed there. The inability to truly know when a session has ended results in frustration because the next query may not be able to run because the last is actually still running.
- The tuning advisor runs very long and is not always helpful.
- Not knowing the status of a query can be frustrating. That is, if a query is running long, it may show as "running" (i.e. the horizontal bar moving back and forth at the bottom of the screen), but in actuality, it may be hung up.
For non-DBAs, the interface is relatively easy to understand, with a straightforward feeling and very few buttons. This 'plain' feeling can help non-expert users not feel intimidated or inundated.
Oracle SQL Developer paves the way
- Searches for and gathers data quickly and efficiently.
- If you error during writing your queries, this usually provides accurate reasons why your query errored, allowing you to quickly make the correct fixes.
- Allows for customization.
- I am stretching to come up with cons for SQL Developer, it could possibly have more tips and tricks for easily writing queries. Maybe more user-friendly functionality.
Oracle SQL Developer: my daily work buddy
Oracle SQL Developer is a popular tool we use here at our organization. Developers, DBAs and data architects all use this tool. We use it for running queries, DBA administration, and Data Modeling. In the DBA section, it provides database configuration - initialization parameters, current database properties, and database stats—the instance viewer is super nice.
- DBA section: automatic undo management, initialization parameters, database feature usage, instance viewer (CPU, session, top SQL, processes,etc.).
- Memory/storage: beautiful graphics, performance, backup/recovery, security (roles, users, profiles, and auditing). All is nicely displayed!
- SQL Worksheet: I can run queries in a database, hop to a different database, run the same query or different one. All can be done in one console.
- I have connections set up for 40 databases, switch between databases - very convenient. Queries can be kept in History or save to a notepad.
- Tools: 1.Modeling is a nice addition in SQL Developer. I don't use it for creating logical models. However, I find it very helpful to look at the model and understand the relationship between tables and schemas.
- Database copy: make a copy of the database from source to destination with many different options - object copy, tablespace copy, schema copy, copy DDL, copy data.
- Database diff: make comparisons between databases
- Database export with many options based on requirements.
- SQL Worksheet: listed above
- Session monitoring: who is logged in.
- Real-time SQL monitoring: insight into how to tune a poorly written query. It does, however, need an additional license.
- General: tables are nicely displayed. I used it every day. I can see column, data model, constraints, grants, statistics, triggers, dependencies, partitions, indexes and I can generate SQL DDL!
- A dashboard to display database status: all database connected/registered, general info, database up/down, version, size and which server it's on.
- Schedule jobs to be run.
A Must Have Tool for Oracle SQL Database Administrators!
- Flexible GUI. The UI updates of the latest version have made navigating through the various features of Oracle SQL Developer quite easy.
- Great Tools for Testing and Developing SQL Scripts. SQL scripting can be a hassle when working with large tables and such. Oracle SQL Developer makes it easy to preview how many rows and tables will be affected.
- Ability to Load Data from Different File Formats. Some of our data comes in the form of Excel spreadsheets, XML, and JSON. Oracle SQL Developer allows our database administrators to easily push the data from these formats into our database tables automatically.
- Inability to run multiple queries on the same database. You can only run one query on a given database.
- Analytical models created from complex tables isn't accurate, and needs work.
- Inability to view multiple tables of a database side-by-side. When trying to find correlations between tables, it would help to be able to see them at once on the same page.
SQL Developer is amazing!
- Run queries
- Export Data
- When displaying errors it locates the error on the exact line and position.
- I would like to drag and drop from and to any of the areas.
- I would like to have more capabilities to export.
- Have help info handy when I have a doubt with extensive help.
Easy-to-use tool
- User-friendly.
- Easy to install.
- Allows users to write PL/SQL.
- You can't run more than one query against the same database at one time. This is a capability for TOAD.
- Sometimes it doesn't allow you to use parallel threads in query execution and the error message isn't very descriptive or explain why.
- Editing your display preferences could be a little easier. I had to watch several YouTube videos before I was able to figure out where those settings are kept.
- Easy to use.
- Beginner and power user-friendly.
- I wish that you could view multiple tables in the same database at the same time.
- I wish that you could easily open multiple databases at the same time in the same instance.
- I often misclick when opening a database, so it would be nice to either launch it faster or not immediately open (or at least have the option to enable a soft validation).
Oracle SQL Developer Review
- Oracle SQL Developer is one glass pane to look for all connections across all databases.
- This can work across various environments and provides good value for money.
- This is developer oriented and maintains great connection pool to databases.
- Not easy to install - our IT and compliance policies made it hard to get this installed.
- If there are security policies across companies, it is not easy to work way out to get product installed. The product is good, but the way it is delivered is not the best.
- This product need better UI to search data across various panes.
Looking for a better way to Develop SQL
- It lets us create new objects easily and modify the DDL within the tool quite easily.
- I love the data review tab that shows the data quickly and helps us profile the data.
- Exporting data from one object to another is great.
- Import/export data to the cloud.
- Does not do a good job of auto-connecting to a previous connection and you have to go through a couple of clicks and refresh.
Analyst's Review of Oracle SQL Developer
- Easy to connect to a data source - Time to get started is fairly easy given the connection is straightforward.
- It's very barebones, there are so many greater options for querying that provide more dynamic interaction and autocompletion.
- Visually, it leaves much to be desired, sometimes it even clips the text on my widescreen monitor.