Oracle SQL Developer Reviews

Name: Oracle SQL Developer
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 4 (30 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

30 reviews
92% willing to recommend

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Oracle SQL Developer is a free integrated development environment that simplifies the development and management of Oracle Database in both traditional and Cloud deployments. SQL Developer offers complete end-to-end development of your PL/SQL applications, a worksheet for running queries and scripts, a DBA console for managing the database, a reports interface, a complete data modeling solution, and a migration platform for moving your 3rd party databases to Oracle.

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Oracle SQL Developer is the #4 ranked solution in top IDE solutions. PeerSpot users give Oracle SQL Developer an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Oracle SQL Developer is most commonly compared to AWS Cloud9: Oracle SQL Developer vs AWS Cloud9. Oracle SQL Developer is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 71% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 23% of all views.

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Theodoros Loizou

Software engineer at Amdocs

Jul 17, 2022

I am using Oracle SQL Developer for formulas to find results in the databases The most valuable features of Oracle SQL Developer that I use. However, I do not use all of them Oracle SQL Developer could improve the speed, it is a bit slow. I have used Oracle SQL Developer for approximately six…

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it_user506928

Assistant Director, Applications Development Services in the Student Collaboration Center at Temple University

Feb 17, 2017

The code editor The tree view The debugger The support available for the product Because I work in higher education, and budget dollars are always limited, the fact that this product is delivered at no cost to us as Oracle users is phenomenal. Only a small fraction of our in-house staff are…

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it_user521805

Manager - Technical at Molina Healthcare

Sep 28, 2016

I would say the number one feature is it’s easy to use functionality. It is an extremely simple product and the UI is user-friendly We use it for JD Edwards to SQL the queries on the SQL database side, so it gives us the results fast. In this way, we are able to help the business. The process is…

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Oracle SQL Developer market share

As of May 2024, the market share of Oracle SQL Developer in the IDE category stands at 5.3%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The most valuable features of Oracle SQL Developer that I use. However, I do not use all of them"
"You can install it on every platform. It just works. The other thing is that it's free. And Oracle is committed to the development of the tool, so it has been improving."
"You do not have to install it, just dump it on the OS, then use it."

Room for Improvement

"Oracle SQL Developer could improve the speed, it is a bit slow."
"It's more stable sometimes and less stable other times. I have used it in Windows, Mac, and Linux. It's variable, it's not the same stability. I think that can be improved on."
"There is room for improvement in the Real Time SQL Monitoring."

Pricing

"It is basically free."
"It has the advantage that it's free. The next best competitor would cost several thousand dollars."
"It's a no-cost license and it offers outstanding functionality on that basis."

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