I’ve been a big fan of Oracle’s SQL Developer for quite awhile.  When I first started using Oracle everyone at work was using TOAD but I just couldn’t get used to TOAD’s sometimes overwhelming interface.  Digging around I went looking for a free tool and stumbled across an early version of SQL Developer.  While a bit buggy it did what I needed and has since matured into a very robust tool.  The only thing it was lacking was a good diagram tool when I needed to generate an ERD.

That is now about to change as Oracle has released an Early Adopter Release of SQL Developer Data Modeling.  This is currently a standalone product but Oracle has said at some point it will be integrated with SQL Developer.

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