From: Steve Pritchett <steve_pritchett@compuware.com>
Subject: Re: PL/SQL Development Tools
Date: 1997/10/10
Message-ID: <343E436C.4A16@compuware.com>#1/1
References: <343CD736.5CD31F1A@bdsinc.com> <343d71e1.1167987@news.psu.edu>
Organization: Compuware Corporation
Reply-To: steve_pritchett@compuware.com
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc



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Zernan Martinez wrote:
> 
> A development package I have been using for a while is
> SQL Navigator. It has the management capabilities for developing
> PL/SQL.
> 
> It's one of the most popular PL/SQL tools around, though I can't think
> of any other one except for Procedure Builder, which you would ignore
> once you use SQL Navigator.
> 
> Zern
> 
> On Thu, 09 Oct 1997 09:08:06 -0400, "Bryan J. Gentile"
> <bgentile@bdsinc.com> wrote:
> 
> >Does anyone know of any good PL/SQL developement tools to use to write
> >and compile stored procedures, functions, packages, and package bodies?
> >I am currently using the Oracle Schema Manager to do this, but it is
> >very cumbersome and not a very good interface for writing and compiling
> >stored procedures.  If anyone knows of any good tools to use, please let
> >me know.  Thanks.
> >
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> >


