# SQL Developer Reviews **Vendor:** Oracle **Category:** [Database Management Systems (DBMS)](https://www.g2.com/categories/database-management-systems-dbms) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 259 ## About SQL Developer Oracle SQL Developer is a free, integrated development environment (IDE) designed to simplify the development and management of Oracle Databases across both traditional and cloud deployments. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools for PL/SQL application development, database administration, data modeling, and migration from third-party databases to Oracle. With over 5 million users, SQL Developer enhances productivity by offering a user-friendly interface for tasks ranging from running queries and scripts to debugging and testing PL/SQL code. Key Features and Functionality: - PL/SQL IDE: A full-featured environment for writing, compiling, debugging, and testing PL/SQL applications. - Database Administration: Tools for managing database performance, security, storage, and configurations. - Data Modeling: Capabilities to create Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), generate reports, and perform SQL and DDL scripting. - Migration Platform: Facilitates the migration of databases from platforms like Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase Adaptive Server, IBM DB2, MySQL, Microsoft Access, and Teradata to Oracle. - Multiple Interfaces: Offers desktop, browser-based (Database Actions), and command-line (SQLcl) interfaces to cater to diverse user preferences. Primary Value and User Solutions: Oracle SQL Developer addresses the complexities associated with database development and management by providing an all-encompassing toolset that streamlines workflows. It eliminates the need for multiple disparate tools by integrating essential functionalities into a single platform, thereby reducing development time and operational costs. Its support for various interfaces ensures flexibility, allowing users to choose the environment that best fits their needs. Additionally, the migration capabilities simplify the transition from other database systems to Oracle, facilitating a smoother integration process. ## SQL Developer Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **efficiency in handling database tasks** with SQL Developer, enhancing productivity and reducing errors. (3 reviews) - Users find SQL Developer **intuitive and easy to navigate** , simplifying complex tasks and enhancing productivity. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **powerful analytics capabilities** of SQL Developer for analyzing large transaction data and detecting risks. (1 reviews) - Users value the **big data handling capabilities** of SQL Developer for analyzing large-scale transaction data effectively. (1 reviews) - Users find SQL Developer's **thorough documentation** helpful for clarifying doubts and resolving errors effectively. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy integrations** in SQL Developer, finding it simplifies complex database management tasks. (1 reviews) - Learning (1 reviews) - Navigation Ease (1 reviews) - Speed (1 reviews) - Time Saving (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience **slow performance** with SQL Developer, particularly when handling large queries or databases. (2 reviews) - Users experience **connection issues** with SQL Developer, resulting in slow access to the server despite quick query execution. (1 reviews) - Users find **difficult learning** in SQL Developer, particularly with complex SQL queries and limited debugging capabilities. (1 reviews) - Users find **function limitations** in SQL Developer, especially with debugging complex queries and advanced feature engineering. (1 reviews) - Users find SQL Developer to be **slow with large databases** , which can hinder performance and efficiency. (1 reviews) - Users find the **poor interface design** of SQL Developer to be laggy and less polished than modern tools. (1 reviews) - Small Business Limitations (1 reviews) ## SQL Developer Reviews ### 1. Good Tool. Does the Job. Prefer PLSQL Developer **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vipul J. | Product Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2016 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** Has a nice export query result functionality which supports exporting results to csv, xls, as well as a loader script. Easy to use UI. Provides nice to have interface for accessing DBA objects if you have DBA privileges. Has easy integration with version control tools such as GIT and SVN. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Not so stable and lags if the query is taking a long time to execute. Hangs if query execution is stopped before completion of a time-consuming query. Cannot keep the application window open for a longer time as the application will stop responding and you will have to restart the application. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** Free and comes with oracle installation. Has almost all the features which a Developer would need. Not fancy though. If you have a choice, go for Toad or PLSQL Developer. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** As I have worked in the Financial Domain, most of the business logic resided in the backend. Creating MIS daily and quarterly reports for a major financial institution is the main business goal for our project. SQL Developer has inbuilt features which help in performance tuning of the application. Provides explain plan window as well other query analyser features which are useful for performance tuning of the queries. ### 2. Awesome Database Tool! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2020 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** I find SQL Developer to be just as powerful / robust as Toad, but SQL Developer is FREE! I've used SQL Developer for many years to interact with Oracle databases. It is very handy for writing queries, reporting, and drilling down into database tables for additional stats. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** The update process of SQL Developer is lacking. You generally have to proactively seek out new updates and manually install them. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** While there are other options out there such as Toad, I find SQL Developer to be just as useful and FREE. I have never encountered anything I was unable to do in SQL Developer that I felt another program would handle. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** SQL Developer has allowed me to extract all sorts of information from the databases I connect. It even has query / syntax helpers if you are in need of some assistance. ### 3. My Feedback about SQLDeveloper **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harshad S. | Product Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2020 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** Best Things about SQL Developer: 1. It is easy to install and we can execute multiple queries in a single hit. 2. We can easily export table schema, views, indexes, etc. 3. Debugging is very easy so we can find bugs in our queries easily. 4. We can easily convert data to DDL queries. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Dislikes: 1. It takes time to process long complex queries. 2. It takes a large amount of your RAM memory to process your queries. 3. A few times auto suggestions are not working properly in SQL Developer. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** I will recommend this tool to everyone as their backend expert. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benefits: 1. Most of the work we do in SQL developer is without writing queries. 2. In SQL Developer, it is very easy to update any column or to add any other column to the table instead of writing SQL queries. 3. Using SQL Developer we can create reports also. ### 4. Console to get answers from your DB - Oracle SQL Developer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2021 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** I use SQL developer for my personal projects. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Oracle SQL Developer drops the DB sessions more often than other counterparts. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my personal projects ### 5. Sql Developer Best Tool For Database Management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** taha r. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2020 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** I have been used SQL Developer in my project since 2017. It is the best tool for handling a relational database. It is easy to use and also the user interface of the tool is appealing as well. There are lots of features provided SQL Developer for example easily defines a clustered index, a lot of support and documentation, a stable tool with fewer errors, etc. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Currently, i use SQL Developer for my web application development. I would like to suggest some area of improvement need to be consider by SQL Developer team like needs improvement in user interface,newer version of SQL Developer some performance issues and also database backup mechanism need improvement as well. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** Best tool for managing relational database. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Resolved database management related issues. ### 6. SQL Developer- A **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saikiran . | Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** Data is organised by the relationship between the tables. Can process multiple queries in a single transaction. RAC allows to work on same database from different servers.so,By this way it cuts the cost of maintaining an additional server. It's a highly specialized language. Debugging a query is very easy. Finding in the bugs is very easy using debugging. It provides proper Exception. It allows us to export and import the text, spreadsheet and CSV files. Exporting table schema, sequences,indexes,views, triggers is very easy. Converts the data in the form of DDL query. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Cost is very high. Cannot operate more than 1000 elements in an IN clause. Incapable of executing recursive processing. Data incompatibility and inconsistency in terms of date and time syntax. Takes time when the query is complex. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** It's little bit tough to learn the things in Oracle compared with SQL server. Debugging the script is very easy. It allows to work from different servers. Cost is little more high compared with other SQL. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using for storing the data and performing actions on it. It helps me to fasten the development. Triggers are used for performing actions before or after insert,update,delete operations. Indexes helps me in providing the response in a minimal amount of time. Used views whenever i want to expose the data but not the schema. Exporting the dataset when I'm in need of sharing the data. ### 7. My Experience on SQL DeveloperS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bharath d. | Software Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** 1.It is very user friendly. 2.One can easily understands it. 3. It is Easy-to-understand errors and explanations on incorrect queries. 4.Finding tables and Views more easily. 5.It is easy to find errors when debugging. 6.It is Easy to run scritps. 7.we can create tables,add columns without using queries by using user interfaces it can be done. 8.We can Import DATA easily from text files, Excel files, and CSV files. 9.We can export data to excel files as well. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** 1.If the Data is more it takes take to fetch the data. 2.Some times when we write query like "select * from tablename where " after where if we press ctrl+space it doesn't give suggestions of columns. 3.SELECT DISTINCT REGEXP_SUBSTR ('23,34,45,56','[^,]+',1,LEVEL) as "token"a FROM DUAL CONNECT BY REGEXP_SUBSTR ('23,34,45,56','[^,]+',1,LEVEL) IS NOT NULL order by 1 for this query if we pass more than 300 input as comma separated it throws error. 4.We can't run more than one query against the same database at one time. 5.SQL Developer uses large amount of RAM. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** I would Recommend Every one to use SQL Developer as Back End. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1.It is easy to find errors in it. 2.Some times where we need to create tables ,add columns and rows to table very fast ,Instead Writing Queries to do that Oracle provided user interfaces to do these things very fast. 3.Some times we need to provide reports of data from Oracle.We execute the Query When it gives the result we can export the that data to excel files by using export option. 4.There are some times where we need to copy the data of one table to another table by even creating new table.Oracle provided a feature to copy from one table to another table by using query like create table new_table select * from existing table_name. 5.We can copy the data of one table to already created table by using insert into new_table select * from table_name and even copy only definition also. ### 8. Efficient and easy to use. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prakash R. | Software Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** 1.It is a very good product to store,process,manage the information. 2.Simple UI, which is easy to understand even for begineers. 3.Most of the operations can be done without writing queries like creating tables,add,delete,update,add constraints etc.. 4.It introduced the schedulers ,java and xml also. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** 1.It uses Large amount of RAM. 2.It runs as background process even if we close it. 3.It takes time to fetch data when data is more. 4.If the data is very huge sometimes takes time to fetch data. 5.I encountered a few times Auto suggestions didn't show properly. 6.SELECT DISTINCT REGEXP_SUBSTR (x','[^,]+',1,LEVEL) as "token" FROM DUAL CONNECT BY REGEXP_SUBSTR (x,'[^,]+',1,LEVEL) IS NOT NULL order by 1 it gives error if we pass more than 350 elements in x. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** I Recommend to use SQL developer as back End as it is the fabulous tool I have ever worked.Data export and report generation is highly configurable in different formats which is very handy. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1.It can be used to store,manage,process the data very fast. 2.It is very secure. 3.It even has the encryption and decryption mechanisms that makes the data more secure. 4.Most of the things can be done without writing queries like creating tables,add,delete,update,add constraints etc.. it makes the work very fast. ### 9. Best Adminstor for SQL Database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajat P. | Mechanical Engineering Graduate Trainee @Thermal Power Plant, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** Flexible GUI. The UI updates of the latest version have made navigating through the various features of Oracle SQL Developer quite easy. Great Tools for Testing and Developing SQL Scripts. SQL scripting can be a hassle when working with large tables and such. Oracle SQL Developer makes it easy to preview how many rows and tables will be affected. Ability to Load Data from Different File Formats. Some of our data comes in the form of Excel spreadsheets, XML, and JSON. Oracle SQL Developer allows our database administrators to easily push the data from these formats into our database tables automatically. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Setup can be challenging if your schemas aren't well formed or managed. Also, the ability to model/develop extensions for an existing database solution will depend on how robust the DBA provisioned roles and designed the respective schemas. Detailed analysis of models can be clunky for complex relational models. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our database administration team is using Oracle SQL Developer for the sake of increased productivity. Instead of writing SQL queries out, they use Oracle SQL Developer's IDE interface to quickly create complex queries. Some other features we use include browsing/managing data, ad-hoc reporting, migrating 3rd party RDBMS systems over to Oracle, and data modeling. ### 10. best one ever **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samia Y. | Operations Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2020 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** easy to use and connect. many tools in one place also integrated with all software of oracle **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** not fully user friendly software. not everything easy to drag and drop **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** querying and manipulating data ### 11. Smooth and lighweight database tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul S. | Senior Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** Easy DML as well as DDL operations.Trigger as well as sequence creation are very simplified.Compile time accurate reasons for error .very convenient in extracting DDL for tables and extracting,Export of resultSets is very feasible.Sql Script genration as well as unit query execution are very handy. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Stuck query status in case of heavy load.Parallel threads in query execution is not allowed sometimes.Lacks SQL session monitoring and managing capablities Specially in case of large result sets. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** Highly recommended for easy and quality database operation .Trigger and sequence creation is very feasible.In high restriction environment SQL developer is highly portable.Even good for new programmers providing easy sql execution ,report generations etc.Good for updating large data and small fixes as well. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sequences and trigger creation.Unit query execution as well as multi query execution.Switching between multiple connections is very convenient.Quick reports generation or changing objects are appreciated .Generating reports in desirable format is very helpful.DDL extraction as well as Schema manipulation is convenient. ### 12. Best Database Client Software for Creating, Running, and Debugging SQL Scripts **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sushil M. | Technical Project Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** I like its basic functionalities which is really intuitive. It produces an easily readable view of the SQL scripts being written with debugging suggestions clearly marked like it auto-completes the object names while writing SQL script. It easily produces explain plan results(cost) for any SQL script. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Default settings should be easier to set such as keeping the line numbers in view at all times. Resource manager and storage(DBA utilities) are can be improved. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am working on SQL developer as Oracle Database is used here in my project in one of the leading life insurance company. It helps me to make faster development for my project. In fact our client understood that this DB client software is very ease of use for them as well. ### 13. SQL Developer Best Review. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Birsingh R. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** 1. Best tool to administrate you database. 2. We can create tables, update the data without writing queries. 3. We can create reports for data analysis and to form charts and graphs. 4. We can migrate our db through sql developer. 5. We can create sequences, cursor and triggers. 6. We have the functionality of OWA Output. 7. We can connect to cloud databases. 8. We can connect our database on git from Sql Developer. 9. We can export the tables and data into excel file. 10. We can manage rest data services connections. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** 1. While applying filters on a column sometimes becomes more time consuming than expected. 2. Loading time is more when we sort the table in ascending or descending order. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Creation on tables, sequences , cursor and triggers. 2. Preparing reports. 3. Exporting the data into excel file and sharing data with end users. 4. Optimizing queries. ### 14. My experience with Oracle SQL developer. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prajwal K. | Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** Oracle database is SQL database.It support RAC and Non RAC database.SQL database is easy to handle than non SQL database. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Something when connectivity gets disconnected it gets stuck up on that page only and doesn't respond. And sometimes the stored procedures are not visible due to version problems. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** Oracle is world class leading Database most of the tech Giants use Oracle. In Oracle it is easy to retrieve data for particular condition by joining the tables as it support lots of joins.SQL Developer is nice tool from Oracle. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Actually database is used to store page quantity of information.We actually use database to store information of client and contract details of customer. ### 15. Oracle SQL Developer best for Database operations **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** I use sql developer in company in which I'm working and in my various college projects. I found it really useful and it has various key benefits. Apart from performing basic crud operations there are many features which it gives us such as it can export data to various formats, With help of SQLtunIng it gives us Query Performance, It provides us tree like structure to insert data or create table, etc. And there are countless features in Sql developer **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Till date I haven't find any issue because of which i should comment about software. I really enjoy working on SQL DEVELOPER. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** It is best tool for database operations, it provides migration of DB with other DB, it exports data in to various formats, it helps us to create custom reports, with ease we can drill up and drill down errors. So i suggest SQL Developer is best as relational DB **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Right now I'm executing complex queries in project on which I'm working and I'm experiencing greater performance. ### 16. Easy Data Export and quality multi connection mangement **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul S. | Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** From basic queries to testing and development SQL scripts are convenient.Preview of tables and rows affected are very helpful.Report export in desirable format like excel spreadsheet comes in handy.Multiple connections can be handled very smoothely as well as creation of views ,triggers,procedures are easy . **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Dealing with large data sets are not upto mark.Session monitoring capablity and management are not upto mark.Accesing database object like indexes are not that good.Query execution get stuck sometime and creates confusion between running or stuck status. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** Easy way to connect database that are on premise.Basic UI helps new developers to work properly as well.Exporting data in desired format as well as DDL export is very comforting.Overall a good tool for all level of developers . **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** DML operations ,Data export and reporting,Multiple environment connection management ,DDL extraction as well as unit query execution . ### 17. Best tool for Oracle database with excellent user interface **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darshan P. | consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** 1)As Oracle db do not have any interface SQL developer provide very easy and handy way to connect Oracle db 2)expecting and writing query is very simple 3) shows all types of exception while executing the query 4)formating of the query gives more visibility of the condition 6)we can also connect other database apart from oracle by adding plugins **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** 1) sometimes it get hang while executing query.but this is fixed in latest version **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** Please use this tool to connect with oracle db.most recommend **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** For Oracle db it's a best tool to use for query on db ### 18. Fantastic Database tool for DB operations and user friendly for non-DBA users **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** Free and easy to install. Attractive GUI to work with. Non-DBA user also can work with sql developer as in this writing sql queries is easier. When there is any syntax or script error comes then it will gives you proper error message so that you can fix it. Plus point is that you can import large sql files from your file systems. While establishing connection to new database it is very easy. Autosuggestions is also good feature. Easily export schema and data from tables. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Performance is good,but when it comes to work with large data set it is little bit slow.rather than this nothing dislikes. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** If you want to perform CRUD operations and there is abondant data set to store then I would prefer this software.Its very easy to understand and user friendly. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my project I am using sql developer for managing data in database.The database is very big and while doing DDL operations using sql developer it is very convinient.While integrating it with other systems it's performance is fabulous. ### 19. Experience with sql developer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naresh V. | consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** It’s best graphical user interface to connect to oracle database servers.it provided auto suggestions feature which very helpful while framing database queries.no need write queries for data definition language script ,the tool it provided options and generates queries also.we can manga multiple connections in single window. Easily we can convert queries into sql query structure.we can export and import the data in different manners even we can the connection also **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** We can not run multiple sessions at time and IN query can not provide more than thousand records **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** Nothing **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** My complete database operations running with help of sql developer only ### 20. A nice database management tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** It's free. Everyone likes free tools. The UI is quite simple, you will not need any manual to operate it. The tool was used throughout my organisation. I used it in software testing. The fact that handle multiple data bases at one time and you can work with data very easily through queries directly makes it user friendly. Exporting data is another useful feature to analyse data. This was required while we were making software from scratch and it was very helpful in root cause analysis. Another simple yet useful feature is the color coding of keywords while writing sql queries. You can also save your work into a sql file which can be used later. From beginners to experts it's useful for all. End user reports extraction using sql queries is very direct easy. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** There is nothing as such to dislike but sometime while running large set of queries it used to hang (running displayed always) and we were never sure that the changes were made or not. Anyway we have to execute the changes again which was a rework. The UI is not customizable which is think is a feature present in many tools. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** It's a very nice and easy to use tool. I highly recommend it. Even if you are a beginner in SQL you can make use of the tool for learning purpose too. For industry purpose, it surely reduces cost and time. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Exporting the data in excel, csv and other formats. We had a large data to analyse and this really helped us in saving a lot of time and effort. And the UI is so simple that even the freshers with no experience were able to run the queries, you need not to go to the server. All the databases were connected through UI and the work was simplified. The use of filters is very easy and direct. You can direct use filters and do sorting on the tables/columns. Making connection is also simple. You can work with all the instances simultaneously. ### 21. SQL Developer rocks **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pedro N. | Senior Services Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** SQL Developer is free and very easy to use to access a group of Oracle Database where I need to deploy scripts made by developers. Sometimes I need to look at their code mistakes and try to recompile their objects and it's really easy to do it with SQL Developer. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** When trying to save log output from the SQL Statements that I just run, it would be great if the last used directory was already selected. Apart from that I don't remember anything that I dislike about SQL Developer. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** It's very easy to download and give it a try. It has many hidden features, so be sure to look for them, you won't be disappointed. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to access a large number of different databases, different versions and different environments (PROD, QA) and the list of connections is very helpful. ### 22. Convenient and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** shashank a. | Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** You can add as many connections you want, creating a table or updating any table structure - variable type, size etc is just so easy with Oracle sql developer by just right click and edit.. / create table.. A Connection added is so well structured with tables, views, triggers,sequences, views, procedures, functions, etc **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** The timeout span must be increased.. and there's no shortcut to switch between two connections. Also the export time is too large for a small file too.. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maintaining database for healthcare management system. Easy to maintain bulky data, search, store. Use functions, triggers, procedures, etc without having to actually write the query.. ### 23. Fast Database Processing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** We can save multiple session of different schema. We can view all table and user in the schema in a single window, can place request to view DDL which is generated automatically. Multiple queries can be made in a single window. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** The SQL developer does not prompts with correct syntax if something is missed. If a query is killed it take lot of time to execute it. Unable to export data in the latest excel also very less format options are available to export. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** Use this developer for any amount of data **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** The data visualisations are made with very large amount of data are being made with SQL developer. Query enables various operations to be performed on the base of very large amount and results in desired output. The manual calculations and filteration of data are easily being done using SQL developer ### 24. SQL Developer Reviews **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** 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. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Never know when a query has been truly terminated. Even if one has access to the SQL Monitoring or Monitoring SQL Sessions, it still may show as being terminated but in actuality, within OEM, the query could still be running and need to be killed there. The inability to truly know when a session has ended results in frustration because the next query may not be able to run because the last is actually still running. The tuning advisor runs very long and is not always helpful. Not knowing the status of a query can be frustrating. That is, if a query is running long, it may show as "running" (i.e. the horizontal bar moving back and forth at the bottom of the screen), but in actuality, it may be hung up. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** SQL Developer is useful for navigating the DDL of a table. Easy-to-understand errors and explanations on incorrect queries. Quick load time of application from start-up. Explain plans are very helpful in tuning. Some users in our IT department use TOAD, instead. Because SQL Oracle Developer is free, it is the preferred choice by management. Having an application to query our databases allows non-expert users to write and query SQL without the use of command-line applications, like SQL Plus. This "user-friendly" attribute is appealing to non-DBAs. ### 25. Has all of the functionality you would want and expect **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** I enjoy sql developer for what it is. It's quick, easy to use, the layout makes sense, and it's not a super resource hungry. Switching between connections is quick and it offers a fair amount of functionality tailored towards DBAs. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** There isn't much to dislike really. One thing I would like them to add would be themes. Personally I enjoy the dark theme option from Microsoft products, I wish Oracle would adopt that. It's definitely not crucial functionality or anything, but a nice feature when all your other apps are dark and you're working at night. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** Overall it makes life easier when dealing with oracle databases. It's a much better app than the Windows command line sqlplus. It runs nicely in a Linux based environment as well, but at that point your messing around with command lines anyways. It still works really well in that it gives you a kind of scratch pad to keep past queries handy. Useful for investigating issues. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** It just makes it easy to jump into a database and get a quick visual of the data that's easy to read and understand. ### 26. SQL Developer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** SQL Developer is a great tool to assist with tuning and testing SQL, as well as looking at explain plans and generating better outputs (xls, csv, etc.) **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Not all of the features are easy to find/use. There are a number of features that I found simply from clicking around and by luck. Not sure if there is a good documentation page out there. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** There are a lot of features that are not obvious, and once you dive deeper it can be a very helpful tool. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing developers to tune queries without giving them access to OEM. We try to limit access that we give to our users as a DBA, so SQL Devleoper allows them to do some tuning and look at how their SQL will run. ### 27. All the tools you need to manage Oracle Instances **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** George F. | ETL Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** I started working with oracle databases just this year. I would like to say that working with SQL developer it'ts been a good experience from all perspective. You have all the tools you need in place from data monitoring to export-import data from multiple sources. I'm mainly working as an ETL engineer so most of the time I write long queries inside sql developer. I like the way how we can debug our code and get insight directly from the IDE. There are a lot of functionality out of the box if you are a DBA you can monitor the queries in real time and check the performance of the databases. I work mostly with CSV files and it's very easy to export those kind of files to a table in any oracle database. Current version is 12c and is getting a lot of features with current updates. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** The interface is kind of old from my perspective. There are plenty of tools than can connect to oracle but SQL developer still have more advantages over the others and that is why I still using Oracle SQL Developer most of the time. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** Try to find as much information as possible in all oracle forums. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connect to any oracle instance and develop PLSQL into the IDE, we got all the tools wee need to work and develop in a most efficient environment debugging our code properly according to the best practices. ### 28. Great client for Oracle database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giuseppe C. | Full stack developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** Sqldeveloper is a great software for Oracle db. It Is Easy to install and to use, very stable, and has a clean graphic interface. I have ever used sql developer as client for Oracle Databases. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** I had some problems using last version with console log in SQL procedure and I had ti install 4.2 version **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** If you have problems with console log and Oracle 10g, use sqldeveloper 4.2 version **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use It everyday to test all of the queries that I use during software development. I use a lot the SQL tuning to improve efficiency of my queries ### 29. Oracle SQL Developer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Basweshwar V. | IT Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** Organized user interface. Easy to hands on. It gives the suggestions when we typing the query it helps to speed up your job done. Also process the queries very fast. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Actually every software has some disadvantages like as sometimes loading the databases may take long time. But it happens very rarely. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** For smooth and efficient database oracle SQL Developer is very useful. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use the Oracle developer to integrate with cordys OpenText BPM tool. ### 30. SQL Developer is usable but looks and feels like an application from 15 years ago **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** It's really easy to duplicate connection details; we have a lot of databases that follow similar patterns, and the ability to open one you already know is correct, change the details slightly and re-save is very convenient and means I don't spend a lot of time trying to find some small typo. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** The user interface isn't very intuitive, and I often have to hover over buttons to figure out what they're supposed to do. I tend to stick to only a few of them because I don't always know what kind of side-effects will take place if I click the wrong thing. It also uses more RAM and CPU than I would expect since most of the heavy lifting should be taking place in the database itself. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving problems with unexpected data is much easier to do when you're viewing and editing with SQL Developer as opposed to the Java applications that we ultimately use our databases with. ### 31. OracleSQL developer review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** This is one of the most helpful and easiest data tool available. the connections have been pretty fast and I never has issues with any sql queries ever, unless they are wrong, lol. I would recommend this to any **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Sometimes, it doesnt tell you why some queries does not work, promoting me to run it the second time to get to result. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** go for it, this is one of the pain free data too you can use. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have never faced any software issues using the Oracle SQL developer. ### 32. The best backend tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** villa s. | Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** Sql developer is one of the best back end tool which helps in inserting updating deleting and managing data. It helps to store data for a long time without losing it. It can be used for various purposes like in shopping malls etc...to manage daily profit calculations. We can also create schemas tables that help in storing data **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** When a long query is executed the developer gets hanged very quickly. It can't handle some exceptions. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** One of the best back end tool but not for big data. Go for it. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been working on siebel since 2 years. It helped me build relations between tables and using joins to store data. ### 33. Good software for database handling **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** The best about SQL Developer is the ability to do anything and everything with databases. From creating tables, keys, constraints to restricting the access to the data, everything can be handled. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** It is too slow when it starts and takes a long time in loading the first time. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our whole database system is handled using SQL Developer. From the admin who gives access and privileges to the developers who use the data everyone uses this tool. ### 34. Great product for SQL developers out there **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhigyan S. | Book Author, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** Probably one of the best SQL applications out there with a pretty good UI. Auto complete queries, debugging and pinning the previous SQL result before running a new one works wonders when you want to compare the results of two queries in the same tab. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Tends to get a bit slow sometimes. Also, I have experienced losing my saved connections a lot of time when restarting the application and had to reconfigure the connections. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Writing stored procedures and functions. ### 35. The best database management tool i have ever used. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajat S. | Software Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** 1. The query system is so much easy to write even you can write complex queries in a easy way. 2. If you are going to work on Oracle database then just use it for once, you will fall in love with this tool. 3. With the use of this tool you can develop your project in given time line. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** 1. As a developer i did not find any cons in it even i am a fan of this tool. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** 1. This is the one you should use to develop your projects in a good manner. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. I used to develop my project and it help me to meet client requirement in given time line. ### 36. Good software with a few niggles **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter W. | Test Engineering Specialist, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** Easy to make connections and run SQL statements, good user interface. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Has a short timescale before it needs to reset, its generally around 10minutes and then youve got to wait for the conenction to reset. This can often be annoying when you're moving between different applications in order to validate data etc. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Makes it far easier to manage multiple databases than using command line ### 37. Good tool for database browsing and administration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** It's a fantastic free tool supported by Oracle to allow you to manage all most all aspects of an oracle database. We usually encourage our development teams to try this first before they can go for commercial software. So far this has proved quite useful. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** The user interface is not very intuitive, color scheme and icon selecting is also very ambiguous. I would have personally appreciate a sqlplus type interface window which will allow you to run multiple queries and record the result sequentially for problem analysis but overall its quite good. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** There is no cost so this should be your first option when looking for a database explorer tool. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Presentation of oracle database , browsing and presentation of data, tables and columns to the users. General database admin for developers. ### 38. Useful tool for quick database maintenance **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** Drilling down into schemas is relatively simple, with a tree structure that makes navigation in multiple schema very easy and intuitive. Being able to modify tables directly rather than having to use SQL each time is also a plus. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** It's very awkward to bring up multiple tables in the view pane. The tabs are unimodal, so if you bring up a data view in one table and then want to look at another table, the tab is overwritten with the new table data. There is some sort of split window functionality but it's very unintuitive to use. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use SQL Developer to quickly view and change data in tables without having to resort to tools such as sqlplus to accomplish this. ### 39. Better programs out there **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diana W. | Web Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** I like being able to filter tables and sorting columns once opening a table. SQL Developer allows for helping me view and export database structures which is very helpful. On the plus side, it is easy to start for new developers and making connections is easy. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** I do not like how to writer queries in oracle nor do I like how low it is. SQL server is so much better than SQL developer. Writing queries in SQL developer is frustrating. The join sequence is weird to optimize queries. I also really with it was better helping identifying syntax errors. The query editor is not that great. The software is slow, locks up all of the time and crashes. I often get a black screen and have to force close the program. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using SQL developer to connect to OFSAA – Oracle Financial Services Analytical Application. Both are Oracle hence why we use SQL Developer. I could also use TOAD if I wanted. I have not noticed any benefits of SQL developer over TOAD. ### 40. Super helpful DB tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** I enjoy the ability to visually open, view and edit Oracle Data Bases **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** I wish that I could open multiple tables inside the same database to visually review and compare multiple tables. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** This is a great tool for a non-programmer to jump right into to get started in viewing/editing SQL. Additionally, it is powerful enough to continue to be useful after you move past the graphical UI. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** When we have to troubleshoot or dig deeper into bug in how we are storing or writing data, this makes it quick and easy to get in to the database to troubleshoot and/or fix. ### 41. Good free tool for Oracle Database query development. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** It is easy to save your connection, write an run queries, and view and export results against Oracle databases. It has features such as export to excel, auto complete, and saved snippets and queries. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** It takes a while to load and can be confusing to install as it relies on Java and does not include a formal product installer. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** It is a good tool to write queries and execute against Oracle databases. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows me to directly query Oracle databases and analyze the data. It is cheaper than several other sql query tools. ### 42. Ui is very easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** Ui of sql devloper is very easy to use and user friendly, buttons for day to day command made it very easy we dont have to write commit or rollback command, because this button are ready present,. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** The thing i Dont like about sql devloper, sometimes it becomes clungy and slow **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** Using sql devloper us must know basics of sql **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sql devloper is very usefull for backend development with spring, all the objects can directly store in sql devloper and they are easy to fetch in ui ### 43. The tool used by developers to view and retrieve thr data which are stored in the form of tables **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srinivasulu E. | Pharmacy Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** The SQL developer is the user friendly software where the configuration of the softeare during forst time installation is very easy for the beginner. It helps to create the tables where we can store the data for our business purpose and retrieve the data when ever required which is the best advantage **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Errors are difficult to understand and trouble shoot/fixing up for the begineers **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** One of the Best database software. If you are searching for database releated tool, on health of my experience, what i say that, it is like mother of all database tools. Please prefer this more, and you will more comfortable and User friendly **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** To store the data, view the data, update the data and able to retrieve the required data only depending on the user requirement using commands and exporting them ### 44. Oracle for Developer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** It makes so easy to connect my oracle db instead of connecting through console(command prompt). We can easily write queries by its prompts for table names, columns and errors. Can save results, that to with authentication. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Almost everything is good, nothing to dislike. But feel little fear to write update query, that unexpectedly i may commit the query. Although roll back functionality is available. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** Better to provide user guide in low level. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instead of writing queries directly in my code, i use sql developer. It make easy for debugging and developing. ### 45. Sql developer is very handy in doing all db activities **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** It is very easy to setup connection to multiple db environments and work on different db instances at the same time. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** There is nothing to dislike about the tool. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** Oracle sql developer is hughly recommended for ease of use. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connecting and working on multiple db instances simultaneously. Creating and executing functions and views, debugging issues on the fly. ### 46. Oracle SQL Developer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** - Able to quickly access data stored in Oracle databases - Able to access tables, views, indexes, etc. from a drop down menu. - Can have multiple connections open at once **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** UI is very dated. It would be nice if the application ran in a web browser like PostgreSQL. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** If you are new, make sure to read the documentation provided by Oracle. It is very helpful. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used to develop SQL queries and access Oracle databases ### 47. SQL Developer is awesome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rob B. | IT Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** Accessing database is easy. Too many options and shortcuts to mention. Developing 1 off queries and exporting data is quick and easy. Very active development ongoing. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Occasional orphaned popup windows after computer resumes from sleep. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use it for one off user requested queries. ### 48. My most used app in order to manage my Oracle Databases **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elmir T. | İnternship, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** It's the easiest way to connect Oracle Databases. We really have good options of debugging. It can help you to find errors before you run the code. Simple Inteface **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** Sometimes its way of helping to find errors can lead to wrong directions. Code analysis function would be improved. There would be a chance to interact with many other sources. **Recommendations to others considering SQL Developer:** If you're familiar with Oracle Databases, so it's your best choice, I guarantee. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well, all problems on my databases, as I'm using free version which helps to save money ### 49. Working with SQL Developer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** SQL Developer is great for working with Oracle databases and it provides a fully-featured environment when working with Oracle Databases. It provides good insight into database items is very helpful when writing SQL and PL/SQL. **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** There are some features that take some getting used to, especially if you've used other SQL IDEs, though the learning curve isn't so steep as to be discouraging. **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has allowed me to write better code and provide more value to my organization. ### 50. Ease of Use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveen S. | Oracle consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about SQL Developer?** easy database access. can log in using the credentials without having to update the TNS entries and all that **What do you dislike about SQL Developer?** when it is accesses it take so long to open and start the application **What problems is SQL Developer solving and how is that benefiting you?** access database, execute packages and all that. ## SQL Developer Discussions - [Do you plan to develop multi-filter features (ie creating multiple filters, and using them when it is needed)?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/47152-do-you-plan-to-develop-multi-filter-features-ie-creating-multiple-filters-and-using-them-when-it-is-needed) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is SQL Developer used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-sql-developer-used-for) - 1 comment - [What is the use of SQL Developer?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-use-of-sql-developer) - 1 comment - [View SQL Developer pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/sql-developer/reviews?focus_review=4316606&page=3&product_id=sql-developer§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-31+10%3A16%3A08+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=d30bc392-d92b-4948-987d-6f9dadae8ced&secure%5Btoken%5D=56b9664f665c3129f8ceb6705c5d6eb90105444c873cec4bfe9c0f966731a49b&format=llm_user) ## SQL Developer Integrations - [Visual Studio Code](https://www.g2.com/products/visual-studio-code/reviews) ## SQL Developer Features **Management** - Data dictionary - Data Replication - Query Language - Data Modeling - Performance Analysis **Maintenance** - Data Migration - Backup and Recovery - Multi-User Environment **Security** - Data Encryption - User Access Control ## Top SQL Developer Alternatives - [Toad For Oracle](https://www.g2.com/products/quest-software-toad-for-oracle/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (281 reviews) - [DbVisualizer](https://www.g2.com/products/dbvisualizer/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (263 reviews) - [phpMyAdmin](https://www.g2.com/products/phpmyadmin/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (166 reviews)