Chapter 2. Browsing and Editing Database Objects and Data

Those developers, who access the Oracle database regularly, typically spend the bulk of their time querying, creating, and updating database objects and data. There are those who only need to browse the objects and see how they relate to each other, while others create and update the objects, and many only query and manipulate the data. SQL Developer provides an intuitive user interface that supports all of these activities, which makes accessing and updating database objects and data a point-and-click activity. In this chapter, we look at the broad choices offered by SQL Developer, by reviewing the available browsing, creating, and updating features.