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 | 23.1.1.345.2114 (December 15, 2023[1]) [±] |
Written in | Java |
Platform | Java SE |
Type | SQL Integrated development environment |
License | Proprietary[2] |
Website | www |
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.
Future versions of Oracle SQL Developer will use Visual Studio Code.[4]
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]
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]
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[11] |
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[12] | |
4.2.0 | April 2017[13] | |
17.2 | July 2017[14] | New version numbering system with year.quarter used.[14] |
17.4 | Dec 2017[15] | |
18.1 | April 2018[16] | |
18.2 | July 2018[17] | |
18.3 | October 2018[18] | |
18.4 | January 2019[19] | |
19.1 | April 2019[20] | |
19.2 | August 2019[21] | |
19.4 | December 2019[22] | |
20.2 | June 2020[23] | |
20.4 | January 2021[24] | |
20.4.1 | February 2021[25] | |
21.2 | August 2021[26] | |
21.4 | December 2021[27] | |
21.4.2 | January 2022[28] | |
22.2 | June 2022[29] | Requires Oracle Java 11 |
22.2.1 | September 2022[30] | |
23.1 | April 2023[31] |
OWA (Oracle Web Agent) or MOD_PLSQL is an Apache (Web Server) extension module.
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Is Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler free? - Yes.
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