SQL Developer will not start - no errors, no splash, nothing
631323Mar 31 2008 — edited Nov 14 2008Good morning!
My company no longer has licenses to use Toad, so all new hires here are instructed to install SQL Developer in order to connect to our Oracle DBs. I happen to have worked here long enough to have Toad, but also have SQL Developer (w/JD2K) in order to guide them through it, troubleshoot, etc.
Well, now the troubleshooter is in trouble. My own copy of SD no longer starts (it used to, and I had multiple connections set up). Period. I get no splash screen. No error messages. I can't even find processes running in the background (Windows XP, SP2). I can't find logs showing errors. I've changed sqldeveloper.conf to run in debug mode, hoping it would display errors - something, ANYthing - to give me a clue. I've downloaded the latest and greatest zip. I've deleted the "sqldeveloper" folders over and over and unzipped over and over.
I'm no DBA or Sysadmin, so don't know what other tricks I can try to debug this problem. Basically, if I didn't still have Toad for connecting to our DBs, I'd be hosed. I won't uninstall Toad because it won't be possible to "get it back," so to speak, in case that doesn't help SD run.
Many thanks in advance for any assistance that can be provided.