CONTENTS	3
1.	INTRODUCTION	9
2.	INSTALLATION	13
2.1	SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS	13
2.2	WORKSTATION INSTALLATION	13
2.3	SERVER BASED INSTALLATION	13
2.4	SCRIPTED INSTALLATION	14
2.5	UNINSTALLING PL/SQL DEVELOPER	14
3.	LOGGING ON TO AN ORACLE DATABASE	15
4.	WRITING PROGRAMS	16
4.1	CREATING A PROGRAM	16
4.2	SAVING A PROGRAM	17
4.3	MODIFYING A PROGRAM	18
4.4	COMPILING A PROGRAM	18
4.5	COMPARING A PROGRAM	19
4.6	COMPILER PREFERENCES	20
5.	TESTING PROGRAMS	21
5.1	CREATING A TEST SCRIPT	21
5.2	EXECUTING A TEST SCRIPT	22
5.3	VARIABLE TYPES	23
5.4	SAVING TEST SCRIPTS	23
5.5	TRACKING RUN-TIME ERRORS	25
5.6	PACKAGE STATES & JAVA SESSION STATES	25
5.7	VIEWING RESULT SETS	25
5.8	VIEWING DBMS_OUTPUT	25
5.9	VIEWING HTP OUTPUT	26
5.10	DEBUGGING	26
5.11	TRACING EXECUTION	30
5.12	REGRESSION TESTING	31
6.	OPTIMIZING	32
6.1	USING THE EXPLAIN PLAN WINDOW	32
6.2	AUTOMATIC STATISTICS	33
6.3	THE PL/SQL PROFILER	34
6.4	SQL TRACE	35
7.	AD HOC SQL	37
7.1	USING THE SQL WINDOW	37
7.2	RESULT GRID MANIPULATION	39
7.3	QUERY BY EXAMPLE MODE	43
7.4	LINKED QUERIES	44
7.5	SUBSTITUTION VARIABLES	45
7.6	UPDATING THE DATABASE	45
7.7	VIEWING AND EDITING XMLTYPE COLUMNS	46
7.8	DIRECT QUERY EXPORT	46
7.9	SAVING SQL SCRIPTS	47
7.10	CREATING STANDARD QUERIES	47
8.	THE COMMAND WINDOW	48
8.1	ENTERING SQL STATEMENTS AND COMMANDS	48
8.2	DEVELOPING COMMAND FILES	49
8.3	SUPPORTED COMMANDS	50
9.	CREATING AND MODIFYING NON-PL/SQL OBJECTS	53
9.1	THE TABLE DEFINITION EDITOR	53
9.2	THE SEQUENCE DEFINITION EDITOR	67
9.3	THE SYNONYM DEFINITION EDITOR	67
9.4	THE LIBRARY DEFINITION EDITOR	68
9.5	THE DIRECTORY DEFINITION EDITOR	68
9.6	THE JOB DEFINITION EDITOR	69
9.7	THE QUEUE DEFINITION EDITOR	69
9.8	THE QUEUE TABLE DEFINITION EDITOR	70
9.9	THE USER DEFINITION EDITOR	71
9.10	THE ROLE DEFINITION EDITOR	74
9.11	THE PROFILE DEFINITION EDITOR	75
9.12	THE DATABASE LINK DEFINITION EDITOR	75
10.	DBMS SCHEDULER	76
10.1	CREATING OBJECTS	82
10.2	EDITING OBJECTS	82
10.3	DELETING OBJECTS	82
10.4	VIEWING JOB RUNS	82
10.5	VIEWING RUNNING JOBS	83
11.	DIAGRAMS	84
11.1	CREATING A DIAGRAM	84
11.2	ZOOMING	88
11.3	SAVING AND OPENING A DIAGRAM FILE	88
11.4	UPDATING A DIAGRAM	88
11.5	PRINTING A DIAGRAM	88
11.6	EXPORTING A DIAGRAM	88
12.	REPORTS	89
12.1	STANDARD REPORTS	89
12.2	CUSTOM REPORTS	90
12.3	VARIABLES	91
12.4	REFINING THE LAYOUT	95
12.5	THE STYLE LIBRARY	102
12.6	OPTIONS	102
12.7	THE REPORTS MENU	104
13.	GRAPHICS	105
14.	PROJECTS	107
14.1	CREATING A NEW PROJECT	107
14.2	SAVING A PROJECT	108
14.3	ADDING FILES TO A PROJECT	108
14.4	ADDING DATABASE OBJECTS TO A PROJECT	108
14.5	WORKING WITH PROJECT ITEMS	109
14.6	COMPILING A PROJECT	110
15.	TO-DO ITEMS	111
15.1	CREATING A TO-DO ITEM	112
15.2	EDITING A TO-DO ITEM	112
15.3	CLOSING A TO-DO ITEM	113
15.4	DELETING A TO-DO ITEM	113
16.	THE CONNECTION LIST	114
16.1	USING THE CONNECTION LIST	114
16.2	DEFINING FOLDERS AND CONNECTIONS	116
17.	CONNECTIONS, WINDOWS, SESSIONS AND TRANSACTIONS	119
17.1	THE MAIN CONNECTION	119
17.2	WINDOW CONNECTIONS	119
17.3	SESSION MODE	120
17.4	EXECUTION IN MULTI SESSION OR DUAL SESSION MODE	120
18.	BROWSING OBJECTS	121
18.1	USING THE OBJECT BROWSER	121
18.2	OBJECT BROWSER FILTERS	127
18.3	OBJECT BROWSER FOLDERS	128
19.	BROWSING FILES	130
19.1	SETTING UP THE FILE BROWSER	131
19.2	USING THE FILE BROWSER	132
20.	PREFERENCES	133
20.1	ORACLE – CONNECTION	134
20.2	ORACLE – OPTIONS	135
20.3	ORACLE – COMPILER	137
20.4	ORACLE – DEBUGGER	138
20.5	ORACLE – OUTPUT	139
20.6	ORACLE – TRACE	140
20.7	ORACLE – PROFILER	140
20.8	ORACLE – LOGON HISTORY	142
20.9	ORACLE – HINTS	143
20.10	USER INTERFACE – OPTIONS	145
20.11	USER INTERFACE – OBJECT BROWSER	146
20.12	USER INTERFACE – EDITOR	148
20.13	USER INTERFACE – FONTS	152
20.14	USER INTERFACE – CODE ASSISTANT	153
20.15	USER INTERFACE – KEY CONFIGURATION	154
20.16	USER INTERFACE – APPEARANCE	155
20.17	USER INTERFACE – NLS OPTIONS	156
20.18	WINDOW TYPES – PROGRAM WINDOW	158
20.19	WINDOW TYPES – SQL WINDOW	160
20.20	WINDOW TYPES – TEST WINDOW	163
20.21	WINDOW TYPES – PLAN WINDOW	163
20.22	TOOLS – DIFFERENCES	163
20.23	TOOLS – DATA GENERATOR	164
20.24	TOOLS – TO-DO LIST	165
20.25	TOOLS – RECALL STATEMENT	165
20.26	FILES – DIRECTORIES	166
20.27	FILES – EXTENSIONS	168
20.28	FILES – FORMAT	169
20.29	FILES – BACKUP	170
20.30	FILES – HTML/XML	171
20.31	OTHER – PRINTING	172
20.32	OTHER – UPDATES & NEWS	173
20.33	PREFERENCE SETS	174
21.	TOOLS	176
21.1	OBJECT BROWSER	176
21.2	FIND DATABASE OBJECTS	176
21.3	COMPILE INVALID OBJECTS	177
21.4	EXPORT TABLES	178
21.5	IMPORT TABLES	181
21.6	EXPORT USER OBJECTS	183
21.7	TEXT IMPORTER	184
21.8	ODBC IMPORTER	187
21.9	DATA GENERATOR	189
21.10	COMPARE USER OBJECTS	193
21.11	COMPARE TABLE DATA	195
21.12	EVENT MONITOR	197
21.13	SESSIONS	198
21.14	USER DEFINED TOOLS	200
21.15	TEST MANAGER	204
22.	THE EDITOR	208
22.1	SELECTION FUNCTIONS	208
22.2	COLUMN SELECTION	208
22.3	CODE ASSISTANT	209
22.4	RECALLING STATEMENTS	210
22.5	SPECIAL COPY	211
22.6	PASTE FROM HOST LANGUAGE	212
22.7	CONTEXT SENSITIVE HELP	212
22.8	DATABASE OBJECT POPUP MENU	212
22.9	EXPLAIN PLAN	212
22.10	MACROS	212
22.11	BOOKMARKS	214
22.12	COLOR MARKS	214
22.13	CODE CONTENTS	215
22.14	CODE HIERARCHY	216
22.15	CODE FOLDING	217
22.16	SPLIT EDITING	217
22.17	HYPERLINK NAVIGATION	218
22.18	NAVIGATION BUTTONS	218
22.19	REFACTORING	219
22.20	SEARCH BAR	219
22.21	WEB SEARCH	220
23.	THE LARGE DATA EDITOR	222
23.1	EDITING PLAIN TEXT	223
23.2	EDITING RTF	223
23.3	EDITING XML	224
23.4	EDITING HTML	225
23.5	EDITING IMAGES	225
23.6	EDITING HEX DATA	225
23.7	INVOKING AN EXTERNAL VIEWER OR EDITOR	226
24.	THE QUERY BUILDER	228
24.1	CREATING A NEW SELECT STATEMENT	228
24.2	MODIFYING AN EXISTING SELECT STATEMENT	231
24.3	MANIPULATING THE QUERY DEFINITION	231
24.4	QUERY BUILDER PREFERENCES	232
24.5	QUERY BUILDER PLUG-INS	233
25.	THE PL/SQL BEAUTIFIER	234
25.1	DEFINING THE OPTIONS	234
25.2	DEFINING THE RULES	235
25.3	USING THE BEAUTIFIER	236
25.4	SUPPRESSING FORMATTING	236
26.	TEMPLATES	237
26.1	THE TEMPLATE WINDOW	237
26.2	USING A TEMPLATE	238
26.3	CREATING AND MODIFYING TEMPLATES	239
27.	WINDOW LIST	244
28.	DOCKABLE AND FLOATING TOOLS	245
29.	TOOLBARS	247
30.	AUTHORIZATION	250
30.1	ENABLING AUTHORIZATION	250
30.2	DEFINING AUTHORIZATION	251
30.3	DISABLING AUTHORIZATION	252
31.	ORACLE FILE SYSTEM (OFS)	253
31.1	OFS MANAGER	253
31.2	OFS USAGE	255
32.	HELP SYSTEMS	257
32.1	MS HELP FILES	257
32.2	HTML MANUALS	257
33.	CUSTOMIZATION	261
33.1	PREFERENCES	261
33.2	WINDOW LAYOUT	261
33.3	ON-LINE DOCUMENTATION	261
33.4	COMMAND-LINE PARAMETERS	263
33.5	SQL, PL/SQL AND COMMAND KEYWORDS	266
33.6	PLUG-INS	266