What is Oracle SQL Developer 1.5?
Updated April 2008
Oracle SQL Developer is a free graphical tool
for database development. The initial release, in March 2006, provided
users with a graphical interface to interact with database objects by
providing the ability to browse the database, run SQL, PL/SQL and SQL*Plus
statements, execute SQL scripts, and edit and debug PL/SQL statements.
This initial release also provide a suite of reports to further interrogate
the dictionary. SQL Developer 1.0 was quickly followed by 2 patch releases
and the SQL Developer 1.1 in December 2006.
Oracle SQL Developer 1.1
The main goal of SQL Developer 1.1 was to bring file-based
PL/SQL Editing to the user base, while also broadening the general offering
of the tool.
Oracle SQL Developer 1.2
Oracle SQL Developer 1.2 was known as the "Migration
Release", as it incldued the Developer Migration Workbench,
tightly integrated with Oracle SQL Developer to provide users with a single
point to browse database objects and data in third party databases, and
to migrate from these databases to Oracle..Read
more...
Additionally SQL Developer 1.2 includes support for
Oracle Application Express 3.0.1(Oracle APEX).Read
more...
Released in April 2008, Oracle SQL Developer 1.5 is
the "Version Control" release, as it includes integration with
open source version control products, CVS and Subversion.Supporting the
version control is a File Browser to browse and read files stored in the
file system. You can open and edit these files from within SQL Developer.
In addition to this central addition to SQL Developer,
release 1.5 includes many updated features, such as SQL Formatting, Schema
Compare, Copy and Export wizards and the addition of migration support
for Sybase.
Times Ten support is also integrated with the product.
Feature Listings
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Oracle SQL Developer 1.5, released in April 2008, from OTN.
To find out more about the new Migration Workbench,
see
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