PL/SQL Developer

PL/SQL Developer by Allround Automations Version 5.1

NEW: Support for Oracle 10g now included!

PL/SQL Developer is an Integrated Development Environment that is specifically targeted at the development of stored program units for Oracle Databases. Over time we have seen more and more business logic and application logic move into the Oracle Server, so that PL/SQL programming has become a significant part of the total development process. PL/SQL Developer focuses on ease of use, code quality and productivity, key advantages during Oracle application development.

Key Features

Powerful PL/SQL Editor
- With its Syntax Highlighting, SQL and PL/SQL help, Object Descriptions, Code Assistant, Code Contents, Browse Buttons, Hyperlink Navigation, Macro Library and many other sophisticated features, the editor will even appeal to the most demanding user. Information is automatically presented to you when you need it, or is at most one click away.
Integrated Debugger (requires Oracle 7.3.4 or later)
- The integrated debugger offers all features you could wish for: Step In, Step Over, Step Out, Run Until Exception, Breakpoints, View & Set Variables, View Call Stack, and so on. You can debug any program unit without making any modification to it, including triggers and Oracle8 object types.
Query Builder
- The graphical Query Builder makes it easy to create new select statements or modify existing ones. Just drag and drop tables and views, select columns for the field list, where clause and order by clause, join tables based on foreign key constraint definitions, and you're done.
PL/SQL Beautifier
- The PL/SQL Beautifier allows you to format your SQL and PL/SQL code through a user-defined set of rules. Your code can automatically be beautified when you compile, save, or open a file. This feature will increase your coding productivity and will improve the readability of your PL/SQL code if you are working in large project teams.
SQL Window
- The SQL Window allows you to enter any SQL statement and view or edit the results in a grid, which supports a Query By Example mode to search specific records in a result set. You can easily recall previously executed SQL statements from a history buffer. The SQL editor provides the same powerful features as the PL/SQL Editor.
Command Window
- To develop and execute SQL scripts you can use PL/SQL Developer's Command Window. This window has the same look and feel as SQL*Plus, and additionally has a built-in script editor with corresponding syntax highlighting. Now you can develop your scripts without the "edit script / save it / switch to SQL*Plus / run script" cycle, and without leaving the comfortable PL/SQL Developer IDE.
Reports
- To run reports against your application data or against the Oracle dictionary, you can use PL/SQL Developer's built-in Report functionality. There are a number of standard reports, and you can easily create your own custom reports. These custom reports can be saved in a report file, which can in turn be included in the reports menu. This makes it very easy to run your own frequently used custom reports. You can use the Query Reporter freeware tool to run your reports without PL/SQL Developer, and to run them from the command-line.
Projects
- To organize your work you can use PL/SQL Developer's built-in project concept. A project consists of a collection of source files, database objects, notes, and options. It allows you to work within the scope of a specific set of items, instead of a complete database or schema. This makes it easy to find the project items you need, to compile all project items, or to move a project from one location or database to another.
Object Browser
- This configurable tree-view displays all information that is relevant to PL/SQL development. Use it to get object descriptions, to view object definitions, to create test scripts for the debugger, to enable and disable triggers and constraints, to recompile invalid objects, to query or edit table or view data, to search for text in object sources, to drag and drop object names into an editor, and so on. The Object Browser additionally displays dependencies among objects, and lets you recursively expand these dependant objects (e.g. package references view, view references table, and so on).
Performance Optimizing
- To optimize the performance to your SQL and PL/SQL code, you can use the PL/SQL Profiler to view timing information of each executed line of PL/SQL code (Oracle8i and later).
- Furthermore you can automatically get statistics on executed SQL statements and PL/SQL programs. These statistics can include CPU usage, block I/O, record I/O, table scans, sorts, and so on.
HTML Manuals
- Oracle currently supplies on-line manuals in HTML format. You can integrate these manuals into PL/SQL Developer's environment to provide context sensitive help during editing, compilation errors, and runtime errors.
Non-PL/SQL Objects
- You can view, create and modify tables, sequences, synonyms, libraries, directories, users and roles without using any SQL. Just enter the information in an easy to use form, and PL/SQL Developer will generate the appropriate SQL to create or alter the object.
Template List
- PL/SQL Developer's Template List can be a real time-saver and can help you enforce standardization. Whenever you need to insert some standard SQL or PL/SQL code into an editor, and whenever you need to create a new program file from scratch, just click on the corresponding template.
Compare User Objects
- After making changes to table definitions, views, program units, and so on, it may be useful to propagate these changes to another database user, or to find out what exactly the differences are. This maybe another development environment, a testing environment, or a production environment. The Compare User Objects function allows you to compare a selection of objects, to visualize the differences, and to execute or save a SQL script that will apply the necessary changes.
Export User Objects
- To export the DDL (Data Definition Language) statements of a selection of objects of a user, you can use the Export User Objects tool. This way you can easily recreate the objects for another user, or you can save the file(s) as a backup.
Tools
- PL/SQL Developer includes several tools to make everyday development easier. You can recompile all invalid objects, search for text in database sources, import and export tables, monitor dbms_alert and dbms_pipe events, view session information, and so on.
Plug-In extensions
- The functionality of PL/SQL Developer can be extended through Plug-Ins. You can find many Plug-Ins on the add-ons page that you can download without any extra costs. Plug-Ins can be provided by Allround Automations (such as the Version Control Plug-In or the plsqldoc Plug-in) or by other users. If you have a programming language that can create DLL's, you can even write your own Plug-Ins.
Multi-threaded IDE
- PL/SQL Developer is a multi-threaded IDE. This means that you can continue to work as SQL queries are executing, PL/SQL programs are executing, debug sessions are running, and so on. It also means that the IDE will not "hang" if you make a programming error: you can break execution or save your work at any time.
Easy installation
- No middle-ware required other than SQL*Net. No database object installation. Just a simple one-button installation procedure and you're ready to use it.
System requirements
- PL/SQL Developer will run on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP. The supported Oracle Server versions are 7.x, 8.x, 8i, 9i and 10g on any platform. To connect to an Oracle database, PL/SQL Developer requires a 32-bit SQL*Net or Net 8, Net 9 or Net 10 version.
Trial version
- You can download a fully functional 30-day trial version to try out PL/SQL Developer yourself. If after 30 days you can't imagine how you've ever been able to work without PL/SQL Developer, you can come back here and order your own copy. The price information is right here. We have a customer list available if you want to get an impression of what organizations are using PL/SQL Developer.