I like it because it's very similar in output to SQL *Plus, and it has many convenience features that make it easier to read the data and use the basic reporting features it provides.

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it_user657591

Senior Partner at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees

Aug 21, 2018

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.

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Theodoros Loizou

Software engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Jul 17, 2022

The most valuable features of Oracle SQL Developer that I use. However, I do not use all of them

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Oracle SQL Developer Cons review quotes

it_user505650

Oracle architect & senior DBA, OBIEE data analytics, warehousing & ETL specialist at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Jul 27, 2017

There are occasional runtime issues that are easily worked around, especially on a Windows deployment.

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it_user530439

Sócio Diretor at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Dec 12, 2017

The initial setup is always a problem, it cannot find the Java SDK.

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it_user756873

Data Architect / Data Modeler - Contract at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 26, 2017

It would be nice to have the ability to access DBs than Oracle.

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it_user809487

Senior Consultant at Contracted by Siemens

Jan 28, 2018

The competing products have more features.

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Martin Klier

Senior Database Consultant at Performing Databases

Sep 30, 2019

I think it would be great to have an overview over the sessions it opens so that we could easily see and control which connections to the database we want to keep open, which ones are hanging; and it would be great to make them independent from each other.

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it_user657591

Senior Partner at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees

Aug 21, 2018

There is room for improvement in the Real Time SQL Monitoring.

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Theodoros Loizou

Software engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Jul 17, 2022

Oracle SQL Developer could improve the speed, it is a bit slow.

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