I installed Oracle SQL Developer 2.1 Early Adapter release and it seems to load faster than the current stable version (1.5.x). SQL Developer, for it’s feature set or lack of that, takes more time to load in my system than Toad, but version 2.1 seems to be much better. You can download SQL Developer 2.1 from here.
Some of the new features in 2.1 includes:
- Oracle SQL Developer Unit Testing provides a unit testing framework that allows you to build a set of sequential steps to create test cases for testing your PL/SQL code. You can build a collection of tests to make up a suite of tests that can be run and rerun to verify changes in your PL/SQL code and to still complete the required functionality.
- Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler is a stand alone product that supports logical, relational and conceptual modeling. The tool supports forward and reverse engineering and import and export from various sources. The Data Modeler supports an additional standalone model viewer, which allows users to open models built in the full Data Modeler. SQL Developer 2.1 incorporates the modeler viewer as an extension. integrated into SQL Developer. The Data Modeler Viewer also supports visualizing tables, views and object types on read-only Data Modeler diagrams. The SQL Developer Data Modeler Viewer extension is a free extension to SQL Developer.
- The SQL Worksheet has been redesigned for SQL Developer 2.1 to support concurrent task processing for long running operations. Updates to the worksheet include the support of multiple data grids off the F9 (Run Statement) command and dockable OWA, DBMSOutput and SQL History windows.
- For more features, click here.
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