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Oracle SQL Developer is a free and fully supported graphical toll for database development. Its latest version 1.5 offers multi-databases support, such as Oracle, SQL Server, Access and MySQL. Also, Timesten is default to be supported with this new version.

Similar to famous IDE Eclipse, oracle now provides an “extension development kit” to have more third party involved in extension development. In page of “oracle SQL Developer - Extensions Exchange”, you can find a list of available extensions for Oracle SQL Developer in different versions. On that list, there is only one extension available for the latest version of Oracle SQL Developer. That is OrindaBuild, which generate Java source code to run your PL/SQL procedures and functions or any SQL statement you give it.

Besides of this extension, I also tried out the following three extensions below, which is not noted to be available for the latest version of Oracle SQL Developer. The experimental result is satisfied and they all work with the latest version of Oracle SQL Developer.

1. Insider for SQL Developer
2. Error Lookup for SQL Developer
3. Oracle Data Miner PL/SQL Code Generator

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As announced by Oracle Official, Oracle is committed to improving the oracle metalink interface by providing a new interface on that. I spent 10 minutes today to have a quick look at this new interface and found that that’s real a great endeavor to improving the customer support experiences.

Oracle shows us a newly designed interface, looks like one of software management software. This new interface of matalink is called "Software Configuration Manager". Oracle claimed that it will offer "proactive problem avoidance" and more features. All of these can be accessed like navigation in Toad, a thick-client oracle development environment. Even though, oracle metalink is absolute web application.

The improvement on part of "Service Requests" is giving me a Web 2.0 experience, instead of boring text extraction, which confuse me a lot and make me unhappy read it  because of poor visibility. In new interface, the Ask and Answer parts have been highlighted with different color and the layout has been 100% re-designed. What a reading experience with it!

By the way, the new interface of oracle metalink is available at https://csm.oracle.com/CSP/ui/index.html for testing. It’s good to try.

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