In the SQL Developer group on OracleCommunity.net, both Chris and Chen complained about the new SQL Developer’s automatic code completion and how it could freeze the entire editor while waiting for the popup to appear.

I have experienced this behavior too. It is really frustrating when it happens. The solution, however, is really simple. In SQL […]

As mentioned on OracleCommunity.net, Oracle SQL Developer 1.5 Early Adopter 1 (EA1) is now available for download. As with any new release, there are new features and bug fixes. But, they are not yet detailed in the release notes.

However, I know that the one feature that I have been eagerly waiting for is finally here, […]

Oracle SQL Developer, the free graphical tool for database development, has just been upgraded from 1.1 to 1.2. Here is the list of bug fixes and here is the release notes document including new features and known issues.

If you are already running production release 1.1 (v 1.1.0.23.64) or above, you can use Help > Check […]

When you code, you write your programs either in all lower case, all upper case, or a combination of the two. Let’s take PL/SQL for example, almost all PL/SQL programming best practices and coding styles that I’ve come across recommend using upper and lower. The following is an excerpt from the book Oracle PL/SQL Best […]

Sue mentioned two SQL Developer 1.1 new features today. 1) Sort on column headers, available on any grid of data. 2) Display a single record on a form layout. Cool.

In this global economy the need for software globalization is increasing. As a result of this globalization, localization is becoming an important part of software development. And as a result of this localization, software developers like myself will have to work with multiple languages. So, it is becoming more crucial to have development tools that […]

Following up on my last post: Oracle SQL Developer Updated, it was finally decided to release SQL Developer to production. So, go ahead and get your fresh copy from OTN.

Oracle Database 10g XE has this:

It would be nice to have a similar one for SQL Developer as well, would it?

Another day, another Oracle SQL Developer release. That brings the current release to:

Early Adopter Release 7, version 1.0.0.14.54 March 8, 2006

To get an idea of the frequency of new SQL Developer EA releases:

First, Oracle HTMLDB was renamed to Oracle Application Express. Now, it looks like Oracle Project Raptor is going to be renamed to SQL Developer (Express?), as noticed in Sue Harper’s presentation at ODTUG.

As a follow-up to my previous post about the different SQL development tools, here is the result of the quick poll I had on this site.

I asked the question: What SQL development tool do you use most? There were a total of 150 answers, broken down like this: