Re: PL/SQL development: IDE/Tools

It is a shame that SQL*navigator was dropped from your list. Their web site might not be the best but the tool has performed for me very well. I write a lot of PL/SQL and would not want to do it without SQL*Navigator.

Howard Lee Harkness wrote in message ...
>The return address is a spamtrap. I may be emailed at
>harkness_at_airmail.net, but I would prefer to see replies in this
>newsgroup.
>
>My boss asked me to come up with a proposed budget for development
>tools for Oracle PL/SQL development (along with some other items).
>I'm not really familiar with what is out there, and I have been doing
>PL/SQL development using a homebrew editor and a trace package I wrote
>myself, following some suggestions from Feuerstein's books.
>
>I've seen some negative comments about the tools from Oracle (and they
>appear to be fairly proud of them, at several thousand dollars a
>seat). I've seen some descriptions of other tools, but it is hard to
>get good information from the advertising. Also, when I went looking
>for pricing information, I got some replies along the lines of, "We
>don't list prices because they might confuse the customers," which is
>sales-speak for either, "If you have to ask, you can't afford it," or
>"We want the opportunity to waste enough of your time so that you lose
>the opportunity to do any comparison shopping." For that reason,
>unless I can find someone who can tell me why I should reconsider, I
>have eliminated both SQL Programmer IX (Sylvain Faust Inc.) and SQL
>Navigator (Quest Software) from my short list. The Quest website was
>disorganised and full of broken links, almost like they were trying to
>make it hard to get information from them. InThink and AllRound
>Automations both seem to have reasonable product offerings, but I have
>no experience with either.
>
>My current client subscribes to a 'service' which excludes me from
>Deja News from this site, which is a major handicap. So I'm hoping
>that some of the folks here will post (possibly for the nth time)
>information on some of the development tools you use, and what you
>like about them (or don't).
>
>What I'm looking for is an IDE with a useable syntax-highlighting
>editor, a reasonable debugger, and perhaps some sort of profiling.
>There will probably be at most three programmers in my group doing
>PL/SQL development. I have probably $3k-5k to spend on this portion
>of the project, but if I can spend less, that would mean more
>resources for other parts of the project (such as intranet and GUI
>development tools).
>
>TIA
>hlh_NOSPAM_at_excite.com is a valid, unmunged address!
>It is also so full of spam(!) that I don't read it.
Received on Wed Jul 21 1999 - 23:14:07 CEST