Oracle SQL Developer

Oracle SQL Developer

Developer(s)	Oracle Corporation
Initial release	2005; 19 years ago (2005)[1]
Stable release	23.1.1.345.2114 (December 15, 2023; 9 months ago (2023-12-15)[2]) [±]
Written in	Java
Platform	Java SE
Type	SQL Integrated development environment
License	Proprietary[3]
Website	www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/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.

Features

Oracle SQL Developer supports Oracle 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 with IBM Db2, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase Adaptive Server, Amazon Redshift and Teradata databases.^[4]

Oracle SQL Developer supports automatic tabs, code insight, bracket matching and syntax coloring for PL/SQL.

Future versions of Oracle SQL Developer will use Visual Studio Code.^[1]

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.^[5]

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:^[6]

Integration with other Oracle products

• SQL Developer Data Modeler operates with and models metadata.^[7] Prior to SQL Developer version 3, it constituted a separate (but integrated) free^[8] 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.^[9]
• Data Miner^[10]

History

Oracle SQL Developer versions^[11]

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[12]
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[13]
4.2.0	April 2017[14]
17.2	July 2017[15]	New version numbering system with year.quarter used.[15]
17.4	Dec 2017[16]
18.1	April 2018[17]
18.2	July 2018[18]
18.3	October 2018[19]
18.4	January 2019[20]
19.1	April 2019[21]
19.2	August 2019[22]
19.4	December 2019[23]
20.2	June 2020[24]
20.4	January 2021[25]
20.4.1	February 2021[26]
21.2	August 2021[27]
21.4	December 2021[28]
21.4.2	January 2022[29]
22.2	June 2022[30]	Requires Oracle Java 11
22.2.1	September 2022[31]
23.1	April 2023[32]

See also

• JDeveloper
• Oracle Developer Suite

References

1. Smith, Jeff (24 October 2022). "What's Next for Oracle SQL Developer? A quick, sneek-peek". That Jeff Smith. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
2. "Oracle SQL Developer Downloads". Retrieved July 14, 2023.
3. OTN SQL Developer License
4. "Oracle SQL Developer certifications". Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
5. 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.
6. "Oracle SQL Developer - Extensions Exchange". oracle.com. July 2013. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
7. 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 [...]
8. "Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler: Pricing FAQ". Oracle Corpopration. September 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-10. Is Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler free? - Yes.
9. 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)
10. "Oracle Data Miner".
11. "Oracle SQL Developer". Oracle Corporation. 2008-07-18. Retrieved 2009-02-04.
12. "SQL Developer 3.2 New Features". Oracle Technology Network. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
13. "SQL Developer Release Notes 4.1.5". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
14. "SQL Developer Release Notes 4.2". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
15. [1] Oracle SQL Developer 17.2 Release Notes
16. "SQL Developer Release Notes 17.4". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
17. "SQL Developer Release Notes 18.1". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
18. "SQL Developer Release Notes 18.2". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
19. "SQL Developer Release Notes 18.3". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
20. "SQL Developer Release Notes 18.4". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
21. "SQL Developer Release Notes 19.1". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
22. "SQL Developer Release Notes 19.2". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
23. "SQL Developer Release Notes 19.4". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
24. "SQL Developer 20.2 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
25. "SQL Developer 20.4 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
26. "SQL Developer 20.4.1 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
27. "SQL Developer 21.2 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
28. "SQL Developer 21.4 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
29. "SQL Developer 21.4.2 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
30. "SQL Developer 22.2 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
31. "SQL Developer 22.2.1 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
32. "SQL Developer 23.1 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2023-05-11.

Bibliography

• Harper, Sue (October 20, 2009), Oracle SQL Developer 2.1 (1st ed.), Packt Publishing, p. 496, ISBN 978-1-84719-626-2, 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

External links

• Oracle SQL Developer Homepage