Oracle SQL Developer 2.1

As technology rapidly evolves, many developers are looking for valuable tools to assist them with their daily tasks. When dealing with databases, a clean, easy-to-navigate interface for working and browsing is essential. Oracle SQL Developer is a graphical user interface that makes life much easier by allowing you to browse database objects, run SQL statements and scripts, and create, edit, and debug PL/SQL statements in the most efficient way. It enhances productivity and simplifies your database development tasks. Although the SQL Developer journey looks simple and easy, there are many areas that can go undiscovered, leaving you just scratching the surface.

It’s easy to get started and master this powerful tool with this book to hand. It will provide you with in-depth details about all aspects of using SQL Developer to assist you in your day-to-day database tasks and activities. You will learn to utilize SQL Developer’s extensible environment to support your ongoing needs

This book offers detailed instructions for installing, configuring, and effectively using Oracle SQL Developer. You will learn how to utilize every feature of this development tool and make the most out of it. While none of the tasks are complex, the book progresses from the easy, most commonly used features, such as browsing objects and writing queries in the SQL Worksheet, to the more involved and possibly less frequently used features, such as Tuning and Testing SQL and PL/SQL, and adding User Extensions, and finally to those features used by a smaller more targeted audience, such as Migrations, Oracle APEX, and the Data Modeler. Throughout the book there are tips and suggestions gathered as a result of working with the current SQL Developer user base. This book will also show you how to assess the health of your database with built-in as well as customized reports.

By the end of the book you will be confident in making the best use of SQL Developer, and be able to set up and maintain a productive environment for quick and easy database development.

About the Author

Sue Harper is a product manager for Oracle SQL Developer, SQL Developer Data Modeler, and SQL Developer Migrations working in the Database Development Tools group at Oracle. She has a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and a post graduate teaching diploma. It was this teaching qualification that opened the doors to working with Oracle products in South Africa, where Sue started as an instructor in 1992, teaching SQL, PL/SQL, and SQL Forms and Reports. Before long, she'd added Oracle Designer to her repertoire and soon left for the UK to join the Oracle Designer curriculum development team. Sue was a course writer and then an Oracle Designer product manager, traveling extensively, meeting customers, presenting at conferences, and running train-the-trainer classes. Later, she became a product manager for Oracle JDeveloper working with the database and modeling tools and helping the Oracle Designer community learn about the new tools, before moving to the Database Development Tools group.

Based at home, Sue works with her team scattered around the world and with customers. She runs web-based training sessions and writes supporting material for the products. She frequently attends and presents at conferences and has a number of blogs, which she contributes to sporadically.