The project I’m working on has an Oracle backend, and we use SQL Navigator 5.5 for SQL development and it really sucks: the intellisense doesn’t work for queries with more than one table and you can’t browse the schema and write a query on the screen at the same time. Not fun.
I also tried using Oracle SQL Developer. That’s not much of an improvement either – the graphics on the query results window get all fudged up and have to be repainted frequently by clicking around the screen.
The extent to which I’m writing SQL is pretty basic: a procedure here and there, mostly queries. Can someone recommend a decent tool, preferably one with a low cost?
All IDE:s for Oracle DB are more or less bad, TOAD is the best but still nothing comapared to real IDE like Visual Studio or Eclipse.
Main problem with TOAD is the default texteditor. Find is nightmare and you can’t change shortcuts and auto alignment uses spaces even if you configure it to use tabs and other annoying features. Also cancelling queries or making query to disconnected session might crash it. Also the intellisense is kinda slow imo but it works which is better than what others offer.