SQL Developer Documentation Release 4.2
Overview
Welcome to the Oracle SQL Developer documentation library. Oracle SQL Developer is a free graphical tool that enhances productivity and simplifies database development tasks. With SQL Developer, you can browse database objects, run SQL statements and SQL scripts, edit and debug PL/SQL statements, manipulate and export data, and view and create reports. You can connect to Oracle databases, and you can connect to selected third-party (non-Oracle) databases, view metadata and data, and migrate these databases to Oracle.
SQL Developer also integrates interfaces into several related technologies, including Oracle Data Miner, Oracle OLAP, Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, and SQL Developer Data Modeler (read-only).
SQL Developer
Provides conceptual and usage information about Oracle SQL Developer, a graphical tool that enables you to browse, create, edit, and delete (drop) database objects; run SQL statements and scripts; edit and debug PL/SQL code; manipulate and export data; migrate third-party databases to Oracle; view metadata and data in MySQL and third-party databases; and view and create reports.
Data Modeler
Provides conceptual and usage information about Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler, a data modeling and database design tool that provides an environment for capturing, modeling, managing, and exploiting metadata.
Data Miner
TimesTen
Provides late-breaking information about Oracle SQL Developer for Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database. This document is released with SQL Developer, not with TimesTen. Release number above refers to SQL Developer release number.