Well everyone, I’d like to introduce you to Oracle’s SQL Developer.
It’s free! And you can download it here. Today John and I used it to login to Aero, update a package and it seems to work seamlessly.
You still have to:
1. Install the free Oracle 8i/9i Client
2. Copy a valid tnsnames.ora file to the right place
But it’s FREE! And Oracle wrote it.
So, here’s my feedback. I like free stuff – don’t get me wrong. I’ve only played with it for like 10 minutes, and haven’t even tried the preferences – but at first glance it’s not QUITE as user-friendly as PL/SQL Developer. However, the way I work is dictacted alot by the functionality of our current app, so that’s not a big deal. It gave me error messages when there were some, but didn’t say OK! Nice job when compiling with no errors.
With some playing and tweaking, I’m sure it does about 98% of what we want/need … and it’s free. I like free stuff, can you tell?
Anyway – try it, let me know what you think…