1. User's Guide
  2. Changes in Release 20.2 for Oracle SQL Developer User's Guide

1 Changes in Release 20.2 for Oracle SQL Developer User's Guide

This section lists the changes for this release.

New Features

New features include:

  • The DBMS_DEBUG protocol is now available as an option in the Preferences - Debugger pane for database debugging.

    See Debugger

  • Explain Plan and Autotrace now have a search feature.

    See Execution Plan and Autotrace Pane

  • In Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS), you can enable SQL Developer Web, REST Enabled SQL and Database API during installation.

    A non-SYSDBA user can now install, upgrade, repair, and uninstall ORDS.

    See Install/Run Oracle REST Data Services

Deprecated and Desupported Features

  • Support for SQL Developer integration with Big Data Connectors and Copy to Hadoop is deprecated.