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Oracle SQL Developer Reviews

Vendor: Oracle
4.3 out of 5
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As of June 2025, the mindshare of Oracle SQL Developer in the IDE category stands at 4.2%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Computer Software Company
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Government
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Insurance Company
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Healthcare Company
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Educational Organization
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Retailer
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Real Estate/Law Firm
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Non Profit
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Hospitality Company
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Transportation Company
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Energy/Utilities Company
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Comms Service Provider
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Manufacturing Company
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University
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Construction Company
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Mining And Metals Company
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Wholesaler/Distributor
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Logistics Company
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Media Company
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Renewables & Environment Company
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Oracle SQL Developer reviews

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Theodoros Loizou - PeerSpot user
Software engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of Oracle SQL Developer
Jul 25, 2022
Product version discussed: 12
Useful features, simple implementation, and scalable

Pros

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

Cons

"Oracle SQL Developer could improve the speed, it is a bit slow."
MK
Senior Database Consultant at Performing Databases
Verified user of Oracle SQL Developer
Sep 30, 2019
Product version discussed: 18.4
Helps me streamline and unify my approach for different customers

Pros

"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."

Cons

"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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Senior Partner at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees
Verified user of Oracle SQL Developer
Aug 22, 2018
Covers everything from querying a database to monitoring to producing diagrams

Pros

"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."

Cons

"There is room for improvement in the Real Time SQL Monitoring."
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Oracle Developer at Freelancer
Verified user of Oracle SQL Developer
Jun 10, 2018
Does not overwhelm a user with too many features, and it's free
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CEO at ITFS
Verified user of Oracle SQL Developer
Jun 10, 2018
Streamlines database maintenance but needs better support for background processes

Cons

"I would like it to support background processes better."
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DBA at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Oracle SQL Developer
Jun 7, 2018
Very user-friendly and free, with good support
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DBA at Yediot
Verified user of Oracle SQL Developer
Jun 7, 2018
Enables QA to query and tune databases, GUI is helpful

Cons

"If they had something on the Web then you wouldn't need to install it, just query, like Enterprise Manager."
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DBA
Verified user of Oracle SQL Developer
Jun 7, 2018
Enables us to manage user databases but user interface could be nicer