Getting started
SQL Developer Data Modeler is an independent product and in the previous releases of SQL Developer, only the Data Modeler Viewer extension was readily available along with the SQL Developer download. But in version 4.1, the Data Modeler is integrated with SQL Developer 4.1 by default as a full product and not as a mere read-only extension.
Oracle clients and JDBC drivers
If you are designing and building a model from scratch or have access to the DDL script file to import models, then you do not need to have access to a database. However, if you want to import from a database, you'll need to create a database connection. In this case, there is no need for an Oracle client in your development environment because you can use the thin JDBC driver to connect to the database. SQL Developer Data Modeler also supports the TNS alias. Therefore, if you have access to a tnsnames.ora
file or have other Oracle software installed in your environment, you can access the tnsnames
file...