Oracle, based in Redwood Shores, Calif., announced its Oracle 11g database product at a launch event in New York on July 11, touting its benefits for users and DBAs. But the product also features a host of new capabilities for developers to build applications in the Java and .Net environments and across dynamic languages, the company said.
Two new tools that see their first release with Oracle 11g. One is the SQL Developer, which is an integrated development environment for that enables developers to use a graphical user interface tool for better efficiency and productivity, said Mike Hichwa, vice president of software development at Oracle. Before SQL Developer, Oracle had its SQL Plus tool for querying, defining and controlling data. But SQL Plus, which Oracle will continue to provide, is a character mode only tool.