Chapter 12. Working with Oracle SQL Developer
SQL Developer is an integrated development environment from Oracle that serves as a one-stop solution for major Oracle Database activities, thereby standardizing the development tasks and enhancing the productivity of database professionals. As a free graphical user interface (GUI) tool, SQL Developer offers a wide set of features and solutions for database development, administration, and management, in on-premise and cloud deployments. The SQL Developer tool supports Oracle Database 10g, 11g, and 12c.
For database developers, SQL Developer offers rich editors for working with core and advanced functionalities, such as execute, debug, and test, using SQL, PL/SQL, XML, Stored Java procedures, query tuning, and much more. Database administrators can use SQL Developer to perform various operations like data export and import via data pump, database backup and recovery tasks via RMAN, resource monitor and management, performance analysis...