You know the drill by now. Go here. You can read the releasenotes with the known issues here.
Mar 092006
Mar 082006
I’m not a Debian user myself, but there is a Debian package of Oracle XE now. Get it here, and choose between the Western-European (single byte Latin1) or Universal (multibyte unicode) version. There’s an express client as well.
Mar 032006
The SQL Developer team released Early Adopter version 6. But…they should put that on the main OTN page too. Last time they forgot that as well.
Feb 262006
Gee, a lot of Oracle news lately. Oracle has released XE (Express Edition) as a production release. That’s right. No more beta. Still free. Still here.
Feb 242006
Oracle SQL Developer evolves fast: Early Adopter release 5 is there.
Feb 212006
If you’ve just installed Oracle 10g XE and want to use that database with Oracle JDeveloper 10g release 3, you might run into a “t2cGetCharSet” error when defining an OCI8 (thick) connection. Copy “lib/ojdbc14.jar” from the XE jdbc-directory to the jdbc/lib directory of JDeveloper. The jar from XE is newer, and seems to solve the problem. You need to restart JDeveloper for the new driver to be recognized/active.
Update: read all about Oracle and JDBC here.
Feb 192006
Things go fast now: there’s a (Early Adopter) release 4.1 of Oracle SQL Developer. Get it, before it’s gone, here.
This new version actually has SQL Worksheet working and connecting/disconnecting to an OCI8 connection has been fixed as well (you can reconnect, in version 4.0 you could not).
Feb 162006
What do you write when the father of one of your best friends, her husbands father-in-law, her mothers husband (barely escaped from this horrible disease herself), and her sisters father, her nephews grandfather, is diagnosed with a very progressed form of cancer? In his liver and his bowels. What do you write when it fills you with sadness and anger, frustration and despair? Thoughts of how unfair life is fill my mind. I can’t help it, but the tears keep coming. It reminds me of how I felt and still feel when I lost one of my parents, my mother. Somebody dear to me is going to lose her dad very soon. There are no words that can describe that.
From this humble position I wish her and her relatives all the strength that they need. They will need a lot of it.
Feb 152006
And…there’s a new (EA) release too. Early Adopter release 4 marks the name change from Raptor to SQL Developer. I think it sounds a bit duller than Raptor, but also more mature. Nonetheless, SQL Developer is not dull.
As you can read in the (pricing) FAQ, SQL Developer will remain free and its functionality will be integrated into JDeveloper release 10.1.3+ (as in greater than 10.1.3).
Feb 152006
Although Shay works for Oracle, so he is a little biased, but you’ve got to admit: he’s got a point. A strong point. The Matisse-hype in the new Netbeans turns out to become a vendor-lockin(g) mechanism. You cannot modify the generated Matisse code other than visually in Netbeans. Not with another IDE or text-editor. Changes will be ignored and/or overwritten. Not something you would expect after all the drumrolls.
Read the whole review Shay’s referring to.