SQL Developer Brief Overview
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.
Today, SQL Developer is used by more than three and a half million users worldwide and is the de-facto Oracle Database IDE.
This document contains an overview of current and previous releases of SQL Developer.