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The MOVE Fire

This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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Katherine Johnson — Mathematics to the Moon

Katherine Johnson’s mathematical calculations helped guide some of America’s most important early space missions while she confronted the racial and gender barriers faced by Black women in twentieth-century America.

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Oracle SQL Developer

Oracle SQL Developer
DeveloperOracle Corporation
Release2005; 21 years ago (2005)[1]
Stable release(s) [±]
VS Code extension26.2.0 / July 3, 2026; 3 months ago (2026-07-03)[2]
Standalone (discontinued)26.2.0.186.2220 / July 14, 2026; 2 months ago (2026-07-14)[3]
Written inJava
PlatformJava SE
TypeSQL Integrated development environment
LicenseProprietary[4]
Websitewww.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/

Oracle SQL Developer is an Integrated development environment (IDE) for working with SQL in Oracle databases. Oracle Corporation provides this product free; it uses the Java Development Kit.

History

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The SQL Developer product was initially created in response to a large invoice sent from Quest Software to Oracle Corporation over the use of Quest's TOAD product within Oracle's consulting group - Quest claimed that Oracle used the tool far more extensively than their license allowed for.

Larry Ellison personally called the lead developer during lunch early in 2006, stating that the payment just made to Quest in response to this (per Oracle's view) unwarranted license charge would be the last time Oracle paid the company for TOAD, and the developer was instructed to build a product that could replace it.[5]

The initial release of SQL Developer was quickly put together, and released to Oracle internally immediately.

Features

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Oracle SQL Developer supports Oracle products. In the past a variety of third-party plugins were supported which users were able to deploy to connect to non-Oracle databases. Oracle SQL Developer worked with IBM Db2, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase Adaptive Server, Amazon Redshift and Teradata databases.[6]

Oracle SQL Developer supports automatic tabs, code insight, bracket matching and syntax coloring for PL/SQL.

Future versions of Oracle SQL Developer will use Visual Studio Code.[1]

Components

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Oracle SQL Developer product components include the OWA (Oracle Web Agent or MOD_PLSQL), an extension module for the Apache web server, and helps in setting up dynamic web-pages from PL/SQL within Oracle SQL Developer.[7]

Extensions

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In addition to the extensions provided by Oracle, third parties have written extensions to add new features to SQL Developer and to integrate with other products:[8]

Integration with other Oracle products
  • SQL Developer Data Modeler operates with and models metadata.[9] Prior to SQL Developer version 3, it constituted a separate (but integrated) free[10] counterpart of SQL Developer. As of SQL Developer version 3 modeling became an integrated part of the overall tool. "Data Modeler" can produce (among other outputs) .dmd files.[11]
  • Data Miner[12]

History

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Oracle SQL Developer versions[13]
Version Release date Description
Releases prior to 1.0 Prior to version 1.0, Oracle Corporation labeled the product "Raptor"
1.0 March 2006 The first release
1.1 December 2006
1.2.1 August 2007
1.5 April 2008
1.5.1 June 2008
1.5.3 December 2008
1.5.4 March 2009
1.5.5 July 2009
2.1 RC1 December 2009
2.1 Patch 1 March 2010
3.0 March 2011
3.1 February 2012
3.2 August 2012 APEX listener administration; UI enhancements; 12c database support; bug fixes[14]
4.0 December 2013
4.0.1 February 2014
4.0.2 May 2014
4.0.3 September 2014
4.1.1 June 2015
4.1.2 October 2015 Requires Java 8
4.1.3 December 2015
4.1.5 September 2016[15]
4.2.0 April 2017[16]
17.2 July 2017[17] New version numbering system with year.quarter used.[17]
17.4 Dec 2017[18]
18.1 April 2018[19]
18.2 July 2018[20]
18.3 October 2018[21]
18.4 January 2019[22]
19.1 April 2019[23]
19.2 August 2019[24]
19.4 December 2019[25]
20.2 June 2020[26]
20.4 January 2021[27]
20.4.1 February 2021[28]
21.2 August 2021[29]
21.4 December 2021[30]
21.4.2 January 2022[31]
22.2 June 2022[32] Requires Oracle Java 11
22.2.1 September 2022[33]
23.1 April 2023[34]
24.3 October 2024[35] Requires Oracle Java 17
24.3.1 December 2024[36]
26.2 July 2026[37]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Smith, Jeff (24 October 2022). "What's Next for Oracle SQL Developer? A quick, sneek-peek". That Jeff Smith. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  2. ^ "Oracle SQL Developer Extension for VSCode". VisualStudio Marketplace. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
  3. ^ "Oracle SQL Developer Downloads". Oracle. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
  4. ^ OTN SQL Developer License
  5. ^ This was witnessed personally by the group of Oracle employees that were sitting at the table, including myself.
  6. ^ "Oracle SQL Developer certifications". Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  7. ^ Murray, Chuck (September 2007). "1 SQL Developer Concepts and Usage: OWA Output Pane". Oracle Database SQL Developer User's Guide Release 1.1. Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 2009-02-04. OWA (Oracle Web Agent) or MOD_PLSQL is an Apache (Web Server) extension module.
  8. ^ "Oracle SQL Developer - Extensions Exchange". oracle.com. July 2013. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  9. ^ Chuck, Murray (June 2009). "Data Modeler Concepts and Usage" (PDF). Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler User’s Guide Release 2.0. Oracle Corporation. p. 1-1. Retrieved 2010-03-12. SQL Developer Data Modeler is a data modeling and database design tool that provides an environment for capturing, modeling, managing, and exploiting metadata.[...] SQL Developer Data Modeler is a for-cost option of SQL Developer that requires a separate license. However, a free viewer (read-only) version is also available [...]
  10. ^ "Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler: Pricing FAQ". Oracle Corpopration. September 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-10. Is Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler free? - Yes.
  11. ^ Murray, Chuck (February 2011). "SQL Developer Data Modeler User's Guide". docs.oracle.com. Oracle. Retrieved 2014-12-11. When you save a database design, the structural information is stored in an XML file (with the extension .dmd)
  12. ^ "Oracle Data Miner".
  13. ^ "Oracle SQL Developer". Oracle Corporation. 2008-07-18. Retrieved 2009-02-04.
  14. ^ "SQL Developer 3.2 New Features". Oracle Technology Network. Retrieved 2013-05-01.
  15. ^ "SQL Developer Release Notes 4.1.5". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  16. ^ "SQL Developer Release Notes 4.2". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  17. ^ a b [1] Oracle SQL Developer 17.2 Release Notes
  18. ^ "SQL Developer Release Notes 17.4". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  19. ^ "SQL Developer Release Notes 18.1". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  20. ^ "SQL Developer Release Notes 18.2". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
  21. ^ "SQL Developer Release Notes 18.3". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
  22. ^ "SQL Developer Release Notes 18.4". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
  23. ^ "SQL Developer Release Notes 19.1". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
  24. ^ "SQL Developer Release Notes 19.2". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
  25. ^ "SQL Developer Release Notes 19.4". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
  26. ^ "SQL Developer 20.2 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  27. ^ "SQL Developer 20.4 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
  28. ^ "SQL Developer 20.4.1 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  29. ^ "SQL Developer 21.2 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  30. ^ "SQL Developer 21.4 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
  31. ^ "SQL Developer 21.4.2 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
  32. ^ "SQL Developer 22.2 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
  33. ^ "SQL Developer 22.2.1 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
  34. ^ "SQL Developer 23.1 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
  35. ^ "SQL Developer 24.3 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
  36. ^ "SQL Developer 24.3.1 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
  37. ^ "SQL Developer 26.2 Release Notes". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2026-07-16.

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Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.

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