Oracle SQL Developer 3.2: Certified Databases and Platforms

 

Date: April 2013

Oracle SQL Developer is certified on the following platforms and for the following production Oracle and non-Oracle (third-party) databases. Any issues on platforms or databases not listed will only be considered when reproduced on a certified combination.

Platform Certification

Microsoft Windows

  • Windows 2000
  • Windows 2003 64 bit
  • Windows 2008 Server
  • Windows 2008 R2 64 bit
  • XP (Professional)
  • Vista
  • Windows 7 and 8

Apple MAC

  • OS X 10.5 Update 4 and above

Linux

SQL Developer is certified on the following Linux platforms

  • Oracle Linux 4 and 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

For additional information on Linux Operating System support refer to Metalink Note 266043.1.

Oracle Database Certification

  • Oracle Database 11g Release 2
  • Oracle Database 11g Release 1
  • Oracle Database 10g
  • Oracle Database Express Edition 10g
  • Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database 11g
  • Oracle In-Memory Database Cache 11g

Multi-user Environments

Oracle SQL Developer is supported in the following multi-user environments:

  • Microsoft Terminal Server
  • Citrix MetaFrame and MetaFrame XP (for Windows)
  • MetaFrame 1.1 for UNIX environments

Third Party Database Certification

Oracle SQL Developer can be used to browse and migrate objects and data from a number of third-party databases, and is certified against the following third-party databases:

Database Releases Notes
IBM DB2 DB2 UDB 8.x For any DB2 release: db2jcc.jar and db2jcc_license_cu.jar files required; available from IBM.
  DB2 UDB 9.x  
Microsoft Access Access 97  
  Access 2000  
  Access 2002  
  Access 2003  
  Access 2007  
Microsoft SQL Server SQL Server 7 For Microsoft SQL Server a JDBC driver is required. Use the jtds-1.2.jar, included in jtds-1.2-dist.zip available from sourceforge.net.
  SQL Server 2000  
  SQL Server 2005  
  SQL Server 2008  
MySQL MySQL 3.x For MySQL a JDBC is driver required. Use mysql-connector-java-5.0.4-bin.jar, which is included in mysql-connector-java-5.0.4.zip available from mysql.com.
  MySQL 4.x  
  MySQL 5.x  
Sybase Adaptive Server Sybase 12 For Sybase a JDBC driver is required. Use the jtds-1.2.jar, included in jtds-1.2-dist.zip available from sourceforge.net.
  Sybase 15  
Teradata Teradata 12, 13 JDBC driver files tdgssconfig.jar and terajdbc4.jar required; included in the TeraJDBC_indep_indep.12.00.00.110.zip or TeraJDBC_indep_indep.12.00.00.110.tar download.

NOTE: Do not use the latest MySQL driver 5.1. Use the 5.0.4 drivers for MySQL.

JDK Support

Oracle SQL Developer is certified against JDK 1.6.11 or above.

Further Information

For other details, refer to the Oracle SQL Developer Documentation.

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