SQL Developer 3.0 EA2 quick feedback (outdated there is an EA3 now)

Ok, this post is outdated. Once I've tried EA3 I'll give my feedback again, hopefully not just before EA4 or the final release is released.
Since I don't see another way to give feedback about the new SQL Developer EA release, here a brief summary of my findings so far.
1. The "new and improved" SQL History is very very very slow
2. Importing my 5Mb sql history during the migration takes > 1 day, I've aborted this operation. This might be a "show stopper" for some people once the 3.0 version is released.
3. I'm missing a "keep alive" option for connections, to prevent firewalls from closing the connection while idling (true, this won't prevent firewalls from doing so when you are executing a long running query, but you should not run those from sql developer ;)
3.a. an unexpectedly closed connection shouldn't hang up the entire sql developer instance, not really needed if 3 is fixed
4. I love the schema browser, but would love if you could "open and close" the object in the same way as you can in the connection browser
4.a. It would be nice if you could default to a certain schema in the schema browser for a given connection. Perhaps a bit like what's possible with the following plugin: http://www.javaforge.com/project/schemasel
5. I love the new unload data feature, but would be nice if it still had the option to unload to clipboard
5.a. XLS export of big number columns looses precision, for example a number(38) column with all digits used.
And did I mention that the SQL History is very very very slow? This is what prevents me of using the 3.0 SQL Developer, even though I really love the schema browser, which is a great enhancement.
Edited by: user9361780 on Jan 18, 2011 7:00 AM
Edited by: Wessel van Norel on Jan 19, 2011 2:16 AM

823006 wrote:
5.a. XLS export of big number columns looses precision, for example a number(38) column with all digits used.
I believe excel only holds 15 digits of precision.
Edited by: 823006 on Jan 18, 2011 8:14 AMThen it would be nice if you can define the "excel type" of each column. So you can make this number a "string" in the XLS.
Edited by: user9361780 on Jan 18, 2011 9:12 AM

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