Oracle SQL Developer
Oracle SQL Developer is an Integrated development environment (IDE) for working with SQL in Oracle databases. Oracle Corporation provides this product free; it uses the Java Development Kit.
Developer(s) | Oracle Corporation |
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Stable release | 20.2.0.175.1842 (June 25, 2020[1]) [±] |
Written in | Java |
Platform | Java SE |
Type | SQL Integrated development environment |
License | Proprietary[2] |
Website | oracle |
Features
Oracle SQL Developer supports Oracle products. In the past a variety of third-party plugins was supported which users were able to deploy to connect to non-Oracle databases. Oracle SQL Developer worked with IBM DB2, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase Adaptive Server, Amazon Redshift and Teradata databases.[3]
Oracle SQL Developer supports automatic tabs, code insight, bracket matching and syntax coloring for PL/SQL.
Components
Oracle SQL Developer product components include the OWA (Oracle Web Agent or MOD_PLSQL), an extension module for the Apache web server, and helps in setting up dynamic web-pages from PL/SQL within Oracle SQL Developer.[4]
Extensions
In addition to the extensions provided by Oracle, third parties have written extensions to add new features to SQL Developer and to integrate with other products:[5]
- New features
- GeoRaptor, Geospatial data viewer
- Insider, Collect statistics for a single Oracle instance and display in real time
- Schema Visualizer allows you to create fully featured Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD)
- Integration with other Oracle products
- SQL Developer Data Modeler operates with and models metadata.[6] Prior to SQL Developer version 3, it constituted a separate (but integrated) free[7] counterpart of SQL Developer. As of SQL Developer version 3 modeling became an integrated part of the overall tool. "Data Modeler" can produce (among other outputs) .dmd files.[8]
- Integration with other commercial products
- Red Gate - Deployment Suite for Oracle (Compares schemas and data; deploys all changes.)
- JDBCWizard (produces Java Web Service code to run your existing PL/SQL and SQL statements)
- Method R Trace (zero-click trace file collector)
- Digger (trace analyzer)
- SVCO Extension (integrated version-control for Oracle database server schema objects)
History
Version | Release Date | Description |
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Releases prior to 1.0 | Prior to version 1.0, Oracle Corporation labeled the product "Raptor" | |
1.0 | March 2006 | The first release |
1.1 | December 2006 | |
1.2.1 | August 2007 | |
1.5 | April 2008 | |
1.5.1 | June 2008 | |
1.5.3 | December 2008 | |
1.5.4 | March 2009 | |
1.5.5 | July 2009 | |
2.1 RC1 | December 2009 | |
2.1 Patch 1 | March 2010 | |
3.0 | March 2011 | |
3.1 | February 2012 | |
3.2 | August 2012 | APEX listener administration; UI enhancements; 12c database support; bug fixes[10] |
4.0 | December 2013 | |
4.0.1 | February 2014 | |
4.0.2 | May 2014 | |
4.0.3 | September 2014 | |
4.1.1 | June 2015 | |
4.1.2 | October 2015 | Requires Java 8 |
4.1.3 | December 2015 | |
4.1.5 | September 2016[11] | |
4.2.0 | April 2017[12] | |
17.2 | July 2017[13] | New version numbering system with year.quarter used.[13] |
17.4 | Dec 2017[14] | |
18.1 | April 2018[15] | |
18.2 | July 2018[16] | |
18.3 | October 2018[17] | |
18.4 | January 2019[18] | |
19.1 | April 2019[19] | |
19.2 | August 2019[20] | |
19.4 | December 2019[21] | |
20.2 | June 2020[22] |
See also
References
- "Oracle SQL Developer Downloads". Retrieved July 15, 2020.
- OTN SQL Developer License
- "Oracle SQL Developer certifications". Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
- Murray, Chuck (September 2007). "1 SQL Developer Concepts and Usage: OWA Output Pane". Oracle Database SQL Developer User's Guide Release 1.1. Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 2009-02-04.
OWA (Oracle Web Agent) or MOD_PLSQL is an Apache (Web Server) extension module that enables you to create dynamic Web pages from PL/SQL packages and stored procedures. The OWA Output pane enables you to see the HTML output of MOD_PLSQL actions that have been executed in the SQL Worksheet.
- "Oracle SQL Developer - Extensions Exchange". oracle.com. July 2013. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
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Chuck, Murray (June 2009). "Data Modeler Concepts and Usage" (PDF). Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler User’s Guide Release 2.0. Oracle Corporation. p. 1-1. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
SQL Developer Data Modeler is a data modeling and database design tool that provides an environment for capturing, modeling, managing, and exploiting metadata.[...] SQL Developer Data Modeler is a for-cost option of SQL Developer that requires a separate license. However, a free viewer (read-only) version is also available [...]
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"Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler: Pricing FAQ". Oracle Corpopration. September 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-10.
Is Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler free? - Yes.
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Murray, Chuck (February 2011). "SQL Developer Data Modeler User's Guide". docs.oracle.com. Oracle. Retrieved 2014-12-11.
When you save a database design, the structural information is stored in an XML file (with the extension .dmd)
- "Oracle SQL Developer". Oracle Corporation. 2008-07-18. Retrieved 2009-02-04.
- "SQL Developer 3.2 New Features". Oracle Technology Network. Oracle Technology Network. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
- "SQL Developer Release Notes 4.1.5". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
- "SQL Developer Release Notes 4.2". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
- Oracle SQL Developer 17.2 Release Notes
- "SQL Developer Release Notes 17.4". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
- "SQL Developer Release Notes 18.1". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
- "SQL Developer Release Notes 18.2". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
- "SQL Developer Release Notes 18.3". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
- "SQL Developer Release Notes 18.4". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
- "SQL Developer Release Notes 19.1". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
- "SQL Developer Release Notes 19.2". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- "SQL Developer Release Notes 19.4". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
- "SQL Developer 20.2 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
Bibliography
- Harper, Sue (October 20, 2009), Oracle SQL Developer 2.1 (1st ed.), Packt Publishing, p. 496, ISBN 1-84719-626-8, retrieved 2010-01-13
- Hotka, Dan (October 10, 2006), Oracle SQL Developer Handbook (1st ed.), McGraw-Hill, p. 230, ISBN 0-07-148474-4, retrieved 2010-01-13