SQL Developer

SQL Developer is a graphical tool available to interact with the database. It is freely available with the Oracle database. It is a graphical alternative to the SQL*Plus tool. It provides an IDE (Intergrated Development Environment) interface, giving you the ability to access objects, modify objects, write PL/SQL programs and manage the objects all from one place. It provides a navigational tree like structure to access objects. It also provides many wizard-based tools to greatly simplify database access and development. Available for versions Oracle 10g and higher, it can be freely downloaded from the Oracle website.

The following link can be used to download SQL Developer.

In this section we will provide you with a number of tutorials that will teach you how to access objects from SQL Developer as well as create and manage your database objects from SQL Developer. Please feel free to write to us about our tutorials and we hope you will find them useful.

Tutorials on SQL Developer

The HR schema is used in a large number tutorials and videos. This user is part of the "Sample Schemas". If the user is not available, you can reference the following document - Manually creating the Sample Schemas.

If you need help with creating the HR schema, you can send us an email, and we'll be happy to help !

SQL Developer Videos

SQL Developer Tutorials teach you how to work with :

SQL Developer tool
Structured Query Language.