![]() Once the JDK is installed (you can check by opening a terminal and typing javac -version ) the next step is to download and install SQL Developer from Oracle's website here. I have the Java for Mac Developer Preview installed on my machine from. I've used SQL Developer for Oracle development for a number of years now so the learning curve was pretty small for me but anybody who is familiar with SQL Server Enterprise Manager should be able to find their way around pretty easily, however there are a few things to be aware of which I'll discuss a bit later.īefore you can install SQL Developer you'll need to make sure that you have the JDK installed on your machine. Thanks to this post on stackoverflow I am able to use Oracle's FREE SQL Developer application to connect to Microsoft SQL Server Instances on my MacBook Pro running Lion. One common solution is to have aVirtual Machine running windows but to me that approach feels like using a sledgehammer to pound in a finishing nail. I'm on a Mac, my company uses a SQL Server, and since there is not native SQL Server Enterprise manager client I was forced to find a workaround.
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