| Oracle SQL Developer | |
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| Developer | Oracle Corporation |
| Initial release | 2005; 21 years ago (2005)[1] |
| Stable release | 24.3.1.347.1826 (December 16, 2024; 13 months ago (2024-12-16)[2]) [±] |
| Written in | Java |
| Platform | Java SE |
| Type | SQLIntegrated development environment |
| License | Proprietary[3] |
| Website | www |
Oracle SQL Developer is anIntegrated development environment (IDE) for working withSQL inOracle databases.Oracle Corporation provides this productfree; it uses theJava Development Kit.
The SQL Developer product was initially created in response to a large invoice sent fromQuest Software to Oracle Corporation over the use of Quest'sTOAD product within Oracle's consulting group - Quest claimed that Oracle used the tool far more extensively than their license allowed for.
Larry Ellison personally called the lead developer during lunch early in 2006, stating that the payment just made to Quest in response to this (per Oracle's view) unwarranted license charge would be the last time Oracle paid the company for TOAD, and the developer was instructed to build a product that could replace it.[4]
The initial release of SQL Developer was quickly put together, and released to Oracle internally immediately.
Oracle SQL Developer supportsOracle products. In the past a variety of third-party plugins were supported which users were able to deploy to connect to non-Oracle databases. Oracle SQL Developer worked withIBM Db2,Microsoft Access,Microsoft SQL Server,MySQL,SybaseAdaptive Server,Amazon Redshift andTeradata databases.[5]
Oracle SQL Developer supports automatic tabs, code insight, bracket matching and syntax coloring forPL/SQL.
Future versions of Oracle SQL Developer will useVisual Studio Code.[1]
Oracle SQL Developer product components include the OWA (Oracle Web Agent or MOD_PLSQL), an extension module for theApache web server, and helps in setting up dynamic web-pages fromPL/SQL within Oracle SQL Developer.[6]
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:[7]
| Version | Release date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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[13] |
| 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[14] | |
| 4.2.0 | April 2017[15] | |
| 17.2 | July 2017[16] | New version numbering system with year.quarter used.[16] |
| 17.4 | Dec 2017[17] | |
| 18.1 | April 2018[18] | |
| 18.2 | July 2018[19] | |
| 18.3 | October 2018[20] | |
| 18.4 | January 2019[21] | |
| 19.1 | April 2019[22] | |
| 19.2 | August 2019[23] | |
| 19.4 | December 2019[24] | |
| 20.2 | June 2020[25] | |
| 20.4 | January 2021[26] | |
| 20.4.1 | February 2021[27] | |
| 21.2 | August 2021[28] | |
| 21.4 | December 2021[29] | |
| 21.4.2 | January 2022[30] | |
| 22.2 | June 2022[31] | Requires Oracle Java 11 |
| 22.2.1 | September 2022[32] | |
| 23.1 | April 2023[33] | |
| 24.3 | October 2024[34] | Requires Oracle Java 17 |
| 24.3.1 | December 2024[35] |
OWA (Oracle Web Agent) or MOD_PLSQL is an Apache (Web Server) extension module.
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 [...]
Is Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler free? - Yes.
When you save a database design, the structural information is stored in an XML file (with the extension .dmd)
