SQL Developer

For those of you who have been involved with SQL Developer through a number of releases, you'll be aware that we have wanted to take advantage of the Check for Updates facility to update releases. We have established that the mechanism is not effective when there are structural any changes to some core functionality and as such we now require you to do a full download and reinstall to upgrade a release. However, we can use the mechanism to patch a feature.

We have now released a patch to SQL Developer 1.5.4. You must have SQL Developer 1.5.4 installed to see the patch. To download and install the patch, use Help -> Check for Updates. Check the Oracle SQL Developer option to list the patch. Select to install and complete the wizard.

This patch fixes LDAP, Import and the 9i, 11g query performance issues recently discussed on the forum.

The patch is made up of two parts, the file sqldeveloper.1.5.4.jar will be installed into the \sqldeveloper\ide\lib\patches folder and the file oracle.sqldeveloper.patch.jar into the \sqldeveloper\sqldeveloper\extensions folder. To remove the patch, delete these two files and restart SQL Developer

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Sue