SQL Developer is free !

Hello Everybody,
Is SQL Developer tool is free or paid one?
On Wikipedia I found that:
"Oracle SQL Developer is an IDE for working with SQL in Oracle databases. Oracle Corporation provides this product free; it uses the Java Development Kit."
Regards,
Murali

Yes, the product is free. On the Learn More you'll see a "What is SQL Developer" which provides a good product overview.
Sue

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Will SQL Developer always be free? Evidently Data Modeling extension won't.

After learning the Data Modeling extension to SQL Developer was actually a for-pay product (only the Early Adopter release is free, evidently), I now wonder:
Will SQL Developer always be free, or is there a chance it will be converted into a for-pay product? I don't want to invest any more time learning the tool if there will be future license fees to pay.
I was sad to learn Data Modeling won't be free. Not knowing how much it might cost, I don't want to invest any time at all playing with it.
Thanks.
Dana

Thanks K. Hope to learn more about the Data Modeling extension pricing--not that I'll be able to afford it. Too bad--I see Oracle going in a great direction with SQL Developer being free. It's a shame Data Modeling won't be. Right now, I am stuck using Enterprise Architect--and that's very limited for database design. Evidently it can be modified to do a lot more, but I don't have the skills or time to turn it into something it should do out of the box.
What other free data modeling tools are out there? I liked Druid III, but that doesn't seem to be under active development. There's an Open Source tool called Power Architect, but it was rather buggy the last time I evaluted it:
http://www.sqlpower.ca/page/architect
Maybe it has improved since then (about a year ago).

SQL Developer 3.0 error message on Data mining feature

Hello,
I have installed the 3.0 Oracle SQL Developer and am now getting the following error when I attempt to connect to an existing database connection:
Connection Error - Oracle XMLDB and Text Features are not installed.
Please install the Oracle XMLDB adn Text features, or see your database administrator for assistance.
We are on Oracle 11.2.0.1 with windows env.
I have installed this new released SQL dev 3.0 for data mining purpose, but I am not sure whether we need a licence for this or it is free.
Does anyone have any idea please share with me.
Thanks for your assistance.
Regards.

This post can help you:
Connection Error - Oracle XMLDB and Text Features are not installed.
sql developer is free, not licence needed.

Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler Versus SQL Developer

Friends,
I'm trying to understand the differences between Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler and the ability to use the Data Modeler in SQL Developer.
I've looked at both products home pages on OTN, http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/datamodeler/index.html & http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/sql_developer/index.html and would appreciate your comments on my findings so far
1) The Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler is a stand-a-lone chargeable product whereas the use of the Data Modeler functionality of SQL Developer is free
2) The Data Modeler functionality within SQL Developer is basically a "viewer" I can create ERD's of my existing tables by dragging them into the modeler from the object navigator but that's about it. I can't save the diagram for later use or use it to change the structure of the table(s)
3) If I need to have "Oracle Designer" like ERD capabilities then I need to use Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler (after purchase!)
4) Are there any other differences I have missed?
Thanks in advance

You can open any diagram created in the stand-alone product in the SQL Developer Data Modeler Viewer and navigate through all property dialogs and the full navigator, just like you can in the stand-alone product, but with no update capabilities. This allows developers to fully review the model and all properties, without making changes.
Sue

Oracle SQL Developer vs Oracle SQL Developer Migration Workbench

Gurus,
Can anybody let me know what's the difference between Oracle SQL Developer vs Oracle SQL Developer Migration Workbench tools.
I am in the process of Migrating MS-Access Application to APEX. So the example says me to use Oracle SQL Developer Migration Workbench. Is this part of Oracle SQL Developer? If yes, I know SQL Developer is free.
If not is Oracle SQL Developer Migration Workbench if free?
Thanks and Regards

Thank Oracle ;)
(well, it's the least they can do after you paid big $$$ for the database)
Regards,
K.

SQL Developer Data Modeler - 3000$???

The price is a joke, isn't it?
In which point is that tool better than the PL/SQL-Developer from Allround Automations for 180$?

You're not comparing the same things.
Oracle SQL Developer is FREE - compare that with All Round Automations in terms of functionality.
Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler is a separate tool. It's a separate product and is comparable to tools like CA Erwin Data Modeler and Embarcadero's ER Studio - which are certainly not free.
Sue

Free PL/SQL developer tool

Can I have some advise on what would be the best free PL/SQL developer tools available?

http://www.toadsoft.com/lic_agree.html - it runs under Windows only, but is
slick.
You could also look at Pl/Sql Developer from www.allroundautomations.com,You could also check out
http://sqlworksheet.googlepages.com/
and
http://www.sqltools-plusplus.org:7676/
and
http://www.sqltools.net/ (appears to be deceased!)
Happy hunting.
Of course, Tom Kyte would argue that the best (and indeed only) PL/SQL
developer tool that one should use is totally free and unhindered by overcomplicated
graphical interfaces or RAM-gobbling features and overhead, its name - SQLPlus!!!*
8-)
Paul...
Paul...

SQL Developer Data Modeler: free of licensing costs like SQL Developer?

Sue and SQL Developer Team,
At what release did Data Modeler become free? And by "free" does this mean free for development only? Or free of cost for any and all production use? From what I recall, early releases of Data Modeler were "free" to download but required for-pay licensing to use.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/datamodeler/overview/index.html
"SQL Developer Data Modeler is a free data modeling and design tool..."
If there is a license fee for Data Modeler, then the above statement would be as misleading as one like the following:
"Oracle Enterprise 11g is a free database..."
Free to download, yes. Not free for production usage.

Evidently the answer is "yes" this time. Free as in free of licensing costs:
http://blogs.oracle.com/OTechMusings/2010/09/free_as_in_beer_data_modeler.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/datamodeler/pricing-faq-101047.html

SQL Developer no more free ?

I noticed a new functionality, schema compare in SQLD 1.5. One that is used by develoeprs in my company extensively out of Toad.
To my surprise, it asked to confirm licence for Oracle Change Management Option.
I am shocked!!
Didn't SQL Developer started as a free tool for developers?
I am asking that, did we not jumped on the bandwagon because Toad and other tools are asking price for the functionality we donot feel legitimate.
My sincere apeal, to keep the tool really free.
-Jayant

There's a mention here.
How does Diff Wizard work?
While it says that it involves Java and SQL, there's nothing conclusive there about whether it requires functionality licensed under that option. There are AWR tables/views that can be queried only with the Diagnostic Pack.
Having said that, I can't find anything in DBA_FEATURE_USAGE_STATISTICS or SYSMAN.MGMT_DB_FEATUREUSAGE that might indicate whether the Change Management Pack has been employed. Maybe it depends on the contents of the SYSMAN.MGMT_CM% tables.

Is SQL Developer free product?

Is SQL Developer free product?
It says "Free product" on the OTN site, but when I read the License Terms it is different.
Can we use this free product for commercial purpose on the licensed Oracle database?
or
do we have to purchase a separate license for SQL Developer also?
any reply is appreciated
Thanks!
RG

Lets be specific.
SQLDEveloper is available without charge under the terms of the OTN license, which has been amended to allow one download to be used in several machines. This includes both development and production use of same. All other terms such as ownership, decompilation etc still hold.
Barry
Edited by: Barry McGillin on Dec 9, 2009 9:33 AM

Setting/using a variable in a package in SQL Developer

The 10g db I'm working with has a package that contains a variable and routines to set and get the value of the variable. The variable is used in a number of views to tailor data displayed according to the variable value. This all works well in applications, which set the variable after a connection is opened and then issue queries against the views, and then close the connection.
This also works well in Toad - I can open Toad, run a package routine to set the value and then open views (or run queries against views) in Toad to see how different variable values effect the data displayed. The package variable maintains its value so long as Toad is open, which seems to imply that Toad keeps a connection open.
But I can't use SQL Developer in the same way. I can run the SET routine, but it has no effect in on views subsequently run. When running the SET routine, setting the value to 1, the output is:
Connecting to the database HERC DB.
Process exited.
Disconnecting from the database HERC DB.
I can then run the GET routine, but the value of the variable is always zero:
Connecting to the database HERC DB.
v_Return = 0
Process exited.
Disconnecting from the database HERC DB.
The implication seems to be that a connection is made, the routine is run and then the connection is closed. The closing of the connection resets the variable. Is there some way I can have SQL Developer behave like Toad, such that the package variable value is maintained for my SQL Developer session? I've looked at connection roperties and application preferences, but I've not seen anything that seems to be related keeping a connection open.
BTW, I have tried the "connection startup script", but to no avail. Perhaps I've doen this improperly; the script simply attempts to invoke the package set routine, like so: myPkg.set_identity(1)
Thanks.
Edited by: user483973 on Oct 20, 2009 9:20 AM

When running stored PL/SQL through the IDE context node or editor, indeed a new session is opened and consequently closed on completion after committing. Although great for having the IDE free to continue working, it does have its drawbacks when you want variables to persist and changes to be visible in the IDE before committing.
To prevent the new session and the commit, just call the PL/SQL from a worksheet (in a call, query or anonymous block).
The startup script should work in that respect, but make sure to wrap your call in an anonymous block, else you'll get a syntax error.
Hope that helps,
K.

SQL Developer create wrong SQL for creation of Database link

Hi,
I tried to create Database link to another machine through SQL Developer. and I got error message saying "Sql not properly ended" or similar.
I copy-paste the sql to sqlplus shell and I found that the problem came from password part of database link so the generated from SQL Plus is something like:
SQL> CREATE DATABASE LINK mytest CONNECT TO anotherDB IDENTIFIED BY 1234 USING 'OtherServiceName';
but it should be
SQL> CREATE DATABASE LINK mytest CONNECT TO anotherDB IDENTIFIED BY "1234" USING 'OtherServiceName';
so if I type in the password field
"1234" which is ****** /6 chars/ the database link was created correctly.
Could you check and fix this in next release of the SQL Developer?
Otherwise the Application is very good and far ahead from TORA :)

Thanks, I didn't notice that for passwords. So it's most definately my problem that the SQL Developer . :)
Thank you for clarification!
Offtopic: I am searching for DB Comparison tool which could compare 2 schemas and return me the differences and the sync script. Do you know any /free if possible/? There is such thing in TOAD but I am on Linux and I prefer to use something else. :)
Thank you in advance

Oracle SQL Developer is out

If you haven't been paying attention to early adopters of Project Raptor there it is - production release of Oracle SQL Developer, outstanding database development tool. It works very well with XE and if you're somehow reluctant to web interface or too ascetic sqlplus, you shall certainly like it. Very useful and at no charge.
Oracle SQL Developer is a new, 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, and edit and debug PL/SQL statements. You can also run any number of provided reports, as well as create and save your own.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/sql_developer/index.html

I use SQL Developer for SQL and PL/SQL and only use SQL*Plus for the few commands that don't work in SQL Developer.
SQL Developer has a forum, too.

GeoRaptor 3.2.1 Released for SQL Developer 3.x

Spatialites!
After 6 months of development and testing, GeoRaptor 3.2.1 has been released for SQL Developer 3.x (tested on 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2). This release no longer supports SQL Developer 1.x or 2.x releases due to internal changes to the SQL Developer APIs.
GeoRaptor can be downloaded from the GeoRaptor project's sourceforge page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/georaptor and installed via Help>Check for Updates>Install from Local File. Installation via SQL Developer's update mechanism should be available soon.
The release notes for this release are:
* Fixed issues with validate geometry functionality in particular the update dialog box.
* Revamped "About GeoRaptor" form. Includes clickable URLs, links to mailing lists, version number listing, thanks to testers etc.
* Placed "About GeoRaptor" icon on GeoRaptor's map toolbar.
* SQL Developer NLS settings accessed: improvements in the display and entry and numeric data.
-- Tolerances in Spatial Layer properties will display with the NLS decimal separator eg 0,05.
     Some parts of GeoRaptor such as Validation that show and accept numbers have not been changed from when someone else modified the code.
     If you double click on the left MBR/right MBR icon in the map at the bottom, the current centre position will display according to the NLS settings.
     Editing the value to jump the map to that point works even with grouping separators and decimal separators being commas!
* Spatial Layer Draw has been modified to use NLS based decimal formatting.
* New geometry marking/labelling options have been added. In particular you can now label the vertices of a linestring/polygon with the following additional elements:
-- Cumulative length
-- Measure (M)
-- Z value
-- Labelling of vertices with <id>{X,Y} now also honours 3/4D geometries. If geometry has XYY then it will be labelled as {X,Y,Z} etc.
* You can also label each vector/segment of a linestring/polygon with:
-- Length
-- Cumulative Length
-- Bearing (approximate for geodetic/geographic data)
-- Distance (approximate for geodetic/geographic data)
-- Bearing and Distance (approximate for geodetic/geographic data)
* The font properties of the mark text can be changed independently of the feature label. This includes the offset and label position (CC, LL, UR etc).
* New feature labelling options have been provided:
-- First/middle/last vertex,
-- Any supplied sdo_point within a line/polygon's sdo_geometry object, or
-- Calculated by GeoRaptor on the client side using Java Topology Suite.
* Result sets now have the ability to:
-- Copy to clipboard all geometries across many rows and columns.
-- Display one or more (selected) geometries in a popup image window. This functionality is also available in the result set generated by an Identify command.
* New GeoRaptor Preferences:
-- Width and height in pixels of the new popup image window (displaying one or more geometry objects) can be set;
-- Colours of orphan, missing and correct metadata entries for Metadata Manager;
-- Prefixing with MDSYS for all currently supported spatial objects - sdo_geometry, sdo_point, sdo_elem_info, sdo_ordinates, sdo_dim_info - has been made an option.
-- There is now a new property called "Show Number Grouping Separator" in Tools>GeoRaptor>Visualisation.
     If it is ticked a number will be formatted with the thousands separator in Tools>Database>NLS eg 10000.000 will display as 10,000.000.
* Sdo_Geometry display of all spaces in text between elements of the sdo_geometry array have been removed.
   This was done mainly to compact the sdo_geometry strings so that they are as small as possible when displaying or copying to clipboard.
* Help pages added to the following dialogs with more to follow:
-- Metadata Manager,
-- Shapefile Importer and
-- Layer Properties dialogs.
* GeoRaptor menu entries renamed. New "Manage All Metadata" entry added to View>GeoRaptor menu.
* Spatial Index creation dialog now supports additional index parameters and parallel build settings.
* Metadata Manager overhauled:
a. Shows:
     1. Metadata entries which have no underlying oracle object (orphan)
     2. Metadata entries for existing underlying objects (existing case)
     3. Database objects with sdo_geometry for which no metadata entry exists (new)
b. All orphan/existing/missing colours for (a) can be set via Preferences>GeoRaptor>Visualisation
c. All actions for main (bottom) metadata table are in a single right mouse click menu.
     Some entries will only appear if a single row is selection (metadata copy), others (delete and copy to clipboard) will appear for one or more.
d. Can now switch between open connections to modify metadata of other objects in schemas other than the starting object.
e. Buttons revamped.
* Tab/Shapefile export:
a. Export now supports NULL valued columns. Can be exported as an empty string (if DBase override in GeoRaptor Preferences is ticked) or
     as a predefined value eg NULL date => 1900-01-01 (set in new GeoRatptor Import/Export Preferences).
b. Some work attempted on export of NLS strings (still not corrected).
c. Objects with no rows now correctly processed.
* Shapefile Import
-- Bug relating to Linux file names corrected.
* Fixed issue (identified by John O'Toole) with spatial index underlying a view not being used in map display.
* Reinstated sdo_nn as the principal method for Identify (requested by John O'Toole).
* Fixed problem with handling single click zoom in and out in GeoRaptor map etc.
* Fixed problem with rendering lines from database item (identified by Vladimir Pek).The new "About GeoRaptor" should be read by all people installing GeoRaptor.
Please, please consider registering your email address with our private email list so that we can get a feel for the sorts of people downloading and installing GeoRaptor.
Please consider helping us with documentation or the internationalisation via translating properties files from English to your native language.
GeoRaptor is written and maintained by people who use SQL Developer and Spatial every day but we don't pretend we know everything that users want: please let us know via our feature request page at SourceForge.
We don't get paid for what we do so are always looking for additional help.
Here are some of the requests we have had for improvements:
1. MySQL access
2. WMS access;
3. Ability to import shapefile data into an existing table;
4. Ability to processing multiple shapefiles into separate tables (current version can import one or more into a single target table);
5. Ability to export/import layer definitions to give to others;
6. Support for non-English character sets for varchar exports to shapefiles.Some are relatively simply, some require a lot of engineering work. For the latter, we are considering alternative funding methods to the currently completely free development approach.
Thanks to the following for their invaluable assistance:
Holger Labe, Germany
John O'Toole, Ireland
Vladimir Pek, Czech Republic
Pieter Minnaar, Holland
Olaf Iseeger, Germany
Sandro Costa, Brazil;
Marco Giana, Australia.regards
Simon Greener
Principal GeoRaptor Developer
Edited by: Simon Greener on Sep 10, 2012 2:43 PM

Simon,
I will admit, I almost never use SQL Developer. I have been a long time Toad user, but for this tool, I fumbled around a bit and got everything up and running quickly.
That said, I tried the new GeoRaptor tool using this tutorial (which is I think is close enough to get the jist). http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/georaptor/index.php?title=A_Gentle_Introduction:_Create_Table,_Metadata_Registration,_Indexing_and_Mapping
As I stumble around it, I'll try and leave some feedback, and probably ask some rather stupid questions.
Thanks for the effort,
Bryan

Problems with printing from SQL Developer Data Modeler 2.0

Hi,
I am not able to print my Relational Model (SubView) from Data Modeler 2.0 Build 584. Only an empty page comes out. If I don't reduce the Print Scale (usually to 10-30%) I get something but then it is lots of pages. I have tried A4 and A3 format. Printing to JPEG or PDF seems to be ok.
I have relational data model with 25 tables in my SubView.
Is there any restriction on Print Scale or number of objects in the diagram?
Do I have to install SQL Developer as well? I have just Data Modeler insalled.
Regards,
Alex

Hi Alex,
There is newer version of Data Modeler (3.0 EA2) and it is free
You can download it from here
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/datamodeler/ea2-downloads-185792.html
Regards
Edited by: Dimitar Slavov on Dec 9, 2010 2:15 AM

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