Re: Q: PL/SQL development: IDE/Tools

PL/SQL Developer from All Around Automations is worth a try. I have not used any other PL/SQL tools, and I do not consider myself a professional PL/SQL developer, but I did find the advantages of PL/SQL compared to hacking away in Notepad. It does have nice syntax-highlighting, it's own debugging environment where you can step through your code, set breakpoints, view/set variables, view the call stack, etc. The runtime errors come straight from Oracle, so your error messages will be just as informative.

The company's product page is located at http://www.allroundautomations.nl/plsqldev.html.

You can download a 30 day free trial. After that the product is $150 for a single user, and $450 for a 5 user version.

HTH, -Mark M.

>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).
Received on Wed Jul 28 1999 - 16:12:39 CEST