Re: PL/SQL development: IDE/Tools

Hi Howard,

I wouldn't want to do much Oracle PL/SQL programming without SQL Navigator, its the best product for this purpose I've ever used.

[Quoted] As an alternative, you might investigate the www.toadsoft.com site --- there's a beta version of TOAD with a PL/SQL debugger. TOAD is now really a Quest product and it's cheaper than SQL Navigator, but within limits, you get what you pay for.

Mike Rose

mmrose_at_home.com

Howard Lee Harkness <hlh_nospam_at_excite.com> wrote in message news:F5200FC5787F57E7.89CE52D7D6598B61.0C3165EC253ECCBE_at_lp.airnews.net...
> 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 Thu Jul 22 1999 - 05:54:33 CEST