Before choosing this product, the institution probably did evaluate other options - but I was not involved in the decision making. Assuming we went with "the free one" which met our needs well, and that's why we chose SQL Dev.

There are many capable vendors in this category, but since we usually work with Oracle, a product from Oracle was the first choice. In this case, it has the advantage that it's free. The next best competitor would cost several thousand dollars.

I did not evaluate other options.

I wasn't involved in the evaluations. I had a larger team; there were two DBAs and six or seven total developers all using SQL Developer. At least from the perspective of what our DBAs were using Toad for, we were able to demonstrate that SQL Developer had the same capabilities. It came down to, for those capabilities, you've got to go up and hit view and find the DBA tab, and you have to select the DBA tab and then you add the database to the DBA tab and then you get these features.

For somebody that's probably used to using the competing product, Toad, those links are on the main page, per se. One of the challenges was with the push back - "Oh, SQL Developer doesn't do that," - and we had to say, "You have to go here, here, do this, do that, and look, here's that same stuff right here."

We were able to win the battle between it costing a license fee to do this, or you can go configure SQL Developer, which is easy, to fit your needs and use it instead. That was the thing that allowed us to start using the Cart process, and a number of other things to streamline that whole migration of application and tools through our development cycle.

I did not really evaluate other options before choosing this product. I mainly used SQL*Plus and occasionally Toad.

I have not considered switching to anything else. I see no reason. I'm an Oracle ACE Director, and using Data Modeler is the thing that I am known for.

We looked at a few other products and there have been different consultants that have come into the company that might use SQL Workbench or PL SQL Developer, but I think in general most of us are just sticking with SQL Developer. I haven't done a full analysis, because there just hasn't been a need. There's not really been anything that, to me, has felt lacking.

Toad, SAP ADS, SQL Navigator.

I evaluated TOAD for Oracle, but after using SQL Developer, I kind of grew a liking towards the latter.

Cisco is an Oracle shop. So, we have more product support than anyone else, which gives a lot of comfort to move it over.

I tried Raptor ages ago (and didn’t like it at all), but now I am a converted SQL Developer enthusiast.

I chose this product because it has a solution for all our needs, such as reporting, the PI, the development, the jobs themselves run on/out of the Oracle database. It was the total solution.

No.

This was the only free solution we evaluated. And it belongs to Oracle so that was good for us.

Toad is much faster to use. It's not Java which takes a lot of time to query and create things. You just install it on Windows and it works perfectly. Much better than the Java.

 Embarcadero and Toad.

I did not evaluate other options. Invest some time on standardizing the preferences.