Has Oracle always been this naff?

[suityou01]

It does say in the instructions that you need the JDK. Did you read the instructions?



Just saying like

There's instructions? It was just the win32 client install. Click setup.exe, next, next, next, done. Alles. Kaput.

[TheFaQQer]

There's instructions? It was just the win32 client install. Click setup.exe, next, next, next, done. Alles. Kaput.

FWIW, SQL Developer doesn't have a "Client install".

That said, the downloads page gives you a few options. Looks like you downloaded the one that says:

Oracle SQL Developer for 32-bit Windows (This zip does not include a JDK)
(147 M)

To install and run:
- Ensure you have a JDK installed, if not, download here
(click the Download for JDK 6 Update <xx>, where <xx> is the latest update)
- Download the file above
- Extract sqldeveloper.zip into any folder, using folder names
- Within that folder, open the sqldeveloper folder
- Double-click sqldeveloper.exe

I can understand that from that you might not realize that you need a JDK. I blame Oracle for hiding it in plain sight.

[TheFaQQer]

In Suity's defence, I've just tried installing SQL Developer 3.

I downloaded the version which didn't come with the JDK, and unzipped everything.

I ran sqldeveloper.exe and it asked me for a path to java.exe





















I pointed it to java.exe and it ran fine.

[Mich the Tester]

In Suity's defence, I've just tried installing SQL Developer 3.

I downloaded the version which didn't come with the JDK, and unzipped everything.

I ran sqldeveloper.exe and it asked me for a path to java.exe





















I pointed it to java.exe and it ran fine.

Ah, I see the problem here; you should always get a female assistant to 'unzip everything'.

[doodab]

I pointed it to java.exe and it ran fine.

Yes, I had that "problem" myself.

In suity's defence, SQL Developer now ships with the 11g R2 client installer which is what he's actually using. I do need to install that myself later so I'll have an experiment and see if I can balls it up as much as he has.

[TheFaQQer]

Yes, I had that "problem" myself.

In suity's defence, SQL Developer now ships with the 11g R2 client installer which is what he's actually using. I do need to install that myself later so I'll have an experiment and see if I can balls it up as much as he has.

Some of the features in 3.1 look quite tasty as well, but I daren't try that in case I have problems with installing it and I don't know what to do.

[TheFaQQer]

Yes, I had that "problem" myself.

In suity's defence, SQL Developer now ships with the 11g R2 client installer which is what he's actually using. I do need to install that myself later so I'll have an experiment and see if I can balls it up as much as he has.

Didn't realise that it was now part of the 11g client as well - I didn't install it from there when I did the client install in January.