What's new in Oracle SQL Developer version 4.0

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Oracle SQL Developer
What’s New in Version 4.0
Jeff Smith
Senior Principal Product Manager
jeff.d.smith@oracle.com

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Agenda
 A Brief History of the Product
 Overview of New Features
 Questions as We Go

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Oracle SQL Developer Overview
 Database IDE
 2,500,000+ users worldwide
 Windows, OS X, *NIX
 Administer APEX Listener
 Deploy to Oracle Cloud

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SQL Developer Release History
 Project Raptor (2005) ~ Oracle SQL Developer v1.0 (2006)
 Version 1.5 (2008)
 Version 2.1 (2009)
 Version 3.0 (2011)
 Version 3.1, 3.2 (2012)
Version 4.0 Summer 2013

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Support for Other Oracle Database Products
Times Ten
Data Miner
XML DB
Spatial & Graph

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SQL Developer Data Modeling
Strategy and Analysis
Relational
Database Design
Data Type
Star Schema Physical
Multidimensional
ERD DFD
Logical
Reporting
Import Models
Domains

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What’s New? Pretty Much Everything 

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Under The Covers
 Now Requires Java 7 JDK
 Now Supports Subversion 1.7
 Smaller Memory Footprint, faster load times
 Better Command Line Interface

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New & Improved: #1 Find DB Object
 Search 1 or more Schemas
 Search 1 or more Categories
 Standard Editor for Results
 full screen, easier browsing
 pin results for later

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New & Improved: #2 Database Cart
 Multiple Carts
 Before & After Object Scripting
 Before & After INSERT Scripting
 Compare Cart w/DB or Carts
 Invoke DB Copy based on Cart
 Command Line Interface

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 Editor loads faster
 See Report as You Design It
 New chart options
 Command Line Run -> HTML
New & Improved: #3 Reports

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Reports + Command Line Interface = HTML

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New & Improved: #4 Look & Feel
 Float & Clone
Object Editors!
 Editor tabs can
be reordered
 ‘Cleaner’
window rendering

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New & Improved: #5 Potpourri
Semantic Analysis Info Tips
 ‘Explode’ * to column names
 Auto-add GROUP BY clauses
 Find missing statement delimiters
 Yes, you CAN disable these 

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New & Improved: #5 Potpourri
Temporal Data Type Editors
 Calendar pickers
 dates
 timestamps
 intervals

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And much, much more!
 Tons of productivity enhancements
 2 Top #10 Exchange Features
implemented
 color coded connections
 GIT
 Many hundreds of bug fixes
 Ready to rock and roll with Oracle
Database 12c

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