SQL Developer started out with a basic feature set, but it had many quick releases, and it has reached at the point that I am very comfortable in using it for actual Oracle development. So, if you have been like me and stuck with TOAD for too long, we have a good option now, and this would end up saving some money as well. Most interestingly, Oracle has kept it completely free for any type of use (commercial or personal). Finally, Oracle has made the plunge, and launched SQL Developer – the graphical IDE for SQL Development. But Oracle still did not jumped into this field. You get the idea.ĭown the line, some good free options came up, most noteworthy being TOra. Working on SQL Plus, instead of TOAD was like working in DOS instead of Windows. The only option available from Oracle was SQL Plus, and that was very basic. One thing that I always used to wonder is that why Oracle does not provides a good option for SQL development. Being an Oracle developer myself, I was bored with just working on TOAD since so many years. There were some free tools out there, but none of them came even close to the type of features that TOAD provided. TOAD has been basically the only good SQL development option available for a long time.

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