Oracle SQL Developer pros and cons

Name: Oracle SQL Developer
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 4.3 (36 reviews)

Vendor: Oracle

4.3 out of 5

36 reviews
93% willing to recommend

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Vikram_Kumar

Data Architect at Ontario Power Generation

Oct 2, 2025

When we migrated to Oracle SQL Developer, we found it very user friendly and easy to work with.

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Arif Mahmud

Developer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Oct 3, 2025

Oracle SQL Developer is an IDE that also provides a lot of tools for creating ad hoc reports and organizing your objects; those are the main use cases I would say.

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José Miguel Briones Vázquez

SQL Developer at UST Global

Sep 18, 2025

Working with Oracle SQL Developer is similar to being a detective because I have some clues about something, and then I need to go deep.

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Sankhadeep Sengupta

Associate Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Aug 29, 2025

The main benefits of using Oracle SQL Developer include maintaining different connections with environments such as development, quality, and production while ensuring good access control to prevent data mishaps.

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Hemanthreddy Vakiti

Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Apr 1, 2026

When I measure the amount of time for the same query to run on three different tools, Oracle SQL Developer leads the charts, and on average, if it takes around ten minutes on SQL Server, it takes roughly five to six minutes on Oracle SQL Developer, saving us nearly half an hour to one hour a day.

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MarcosBinelli

Solutions Architect at Deloitte Brazil

Sep 24, 2025

I assess the benefits of Oracle SQL Developer's reporting framework for data-driven decision making by stating that Oracle is the most efficient database for relational databases in my opinion.

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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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Martin Klier

Senior Database Consultant at Performing Databases

Sep 30, 2019

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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it_user809538

Oracle Developer at Freelancer

Jan 28, 2018

Oracle is tremendous, and I have always said to everybody, without knowing other databases, that Oracle is the best database that can exist in this world.

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Oracle SQL Developer Cons review quotes

Vikram_Kumar

Data Architect at Ontario Power Generation

Oct 2, 2025

When errors occur while programming, they are very generic. Even when searching the internet, the errors remain generic and it takes considerable time to understand the fix.

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Arif Mahmud

Developer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Oct 3, 2025

I occasionally have some difficulties with the import of data from other sources, so it sometimes aborts or is not very stable in those areas that still could be improved with Oracle SQL Developer.

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José Miguel Briones Vázquez

SQL Developer at UST Global

Sep 18, 2025

The downsides of Oracle SQL Developer include hard typing.

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Sankhadeep Sengupta

Associate Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Aug 29, 2025

I find Oracle SQL Developer less interactive and less developer-friendly, particularly when it comes to debugging, which was easier in TOAD.

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Hemanthreddy Vakiti

Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Apr 1, 2026

I want to address performance issues with large amounts of data. When I run queries that return lakhs or millions of rows, Oracle SQL Developer sometimes freezes, takes time to load, or even crashes compared to other tools such as DBeaver or Microsoft SQL Server.

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MarcosBinelli

Solutions Architect at Deloitte Brazil

Sep 24, 2025

The areas of Oracle SQL Developer that need improvement are in cloud.

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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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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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it_user809538

Oracle Developer at Freelancer

Jan 28, 2018

But after many years, when I tried to use it again, against the more advanced Oracle Database, it did not work.

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