Q: PL/SQL development: IDE/Tools
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 18:16:28 GMT
Message-ID: <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
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Received on Mon Jul 19 1999 - 20:16:28 CEST