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In the field of software, SQL
SQL
SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....

programming tools provide platforms for database administrator

Database administrator

A database administrator is a person responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance and repair of an organization's database. They are also known by the titles Database Coordinator or Database Programmer, and is closely related to the Database Analyst, Database Modeller, Programmer...

s (DBAs) and application

Application software

Application software, also known as an application or an "app", is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. Examples include enterprise software, accounting software, office suites, graphics software and media players. Many application programs deal principally with...

developers to perform daily tasks efficiently and accurately.

Database administrators and application developers often face constantly changing environments which they rarely completely control. Many changes result from new development projects or from modifications to existing code, which, when deployed to production, do not always produce the expected result.

For organizations to better manage development projects and the team

Team

A team comprises a group of people or animals linked in a common purpose. Teams are especially appropriate for conducting tasks that are high in complexity and have many interdependent subtasks.A group in itself does not necessarily constitute a team...

s that develop code, suppliers of SQL programming tools normally provide more than facility to the database administrator or application developer to aid in database management and in quality code-deployment

Software deployment

Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use.The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them. These activities can occur at the producer site or at the consumer site or both...

practices.

SQL editing

SQL editors allow users to edit and execute SQL statements. They may support the following features:

cut, copy, paste, undo, redo, find (and replace), bookmarks
block indent, print, save file, uppercase/lowercase
keyword highlighting
auto-completion
access to frequently used files
output of query results
editing query-results
committing and rolling-back transactions

Object browsing

Tools may display information about database objects relevant to developers or to database administrators. Users may:

view object descriptions
view object definition
Data Definition Language
A data definition language or data description language is a syntax similar to a computer programming language for defining data structures, especially database schemas.-History:...

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create database objects
enable and disable trigger
Database trigger
A database trigger is procedural code that is automatically executed in response to certain events on a particular table or view in a database. The trigger is mostly used for keeping the integrity of the information on the database...

s and constraints
recompile valid or invalid objects
query or edit table
Table (database)
In relational databases and flat file databases, a table is a set of data elements that is organized using a model of vertical columns and horizontal rows. A table has a specified number of columns, but can have any number of rows...

s and view
View (database)
In database theory, a view consists of a stored query accessible as a virtual table in a relational database or a set of documents in a document-oriented database composed of the result set of a query or map and reduce functions...

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Some tools also provide features to display dependencies among objects, and allow users to expand these dependent objects recursively (for example: packages may reference views, views generally reference tables, super/subtypes, and so on).

Session browsing

Database administrators and application developers can use session browsing tools to view the current activities of each user in the database. They can check the resource-usage of individual users, statistics information, locked objects and the current running SQL of each individual session.

User-security management

DBAs can create, edit, delete, disable or enable user-accounts in the database using security-management tools. DBAs can also assign roles, system privilege

Privilege (Computing)

In computing, privilege is defined as the delegation of authority over a computer system. A privilege is a permission to perform an action. Examples of various privileges include the ability to create a file in a directory, or to read or delete a file, access a device, or have read or write...

s, object privileges, and storage-quotas to users.

Debugging

Some tools offer features for the debugging of stored procedure

Stored procedure

A stored procedure is a subroutine available to applications that access a relational database system. A stored procedure is actually stored in the database data dictionary.Typical uses for stored procedures include data validation or access control mechanisms...

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Program animation

Program animation or Stepping refers to the very common debugging method of executing code one "line" at a time. The programmer may examine the state of the program, machine, and related data before and after execution of a particular line of code...

, Step Over, Step Out, Run Until Exception, Breakpoints

Breakpoint

In software development, a breakpoint is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program, put in place for debugging purposes. It is also sometimes simply referred to as a pause....

, View & Set Variables, View Call Stack, and so on. Users can debug any program-unit without making any modification to it, including triggers and object type

Object type

In computer science, an object type is a datatype which is used in object-oriented programming to wrap a non-object type to make it look like a dynamic object....

Performance monitoring