Using the Help

SQL Developer provides a Help menu and context-sensitive help (click the Help button or press the F1 key in certain contexts).

By default, help from the Help menu is displayed on the right side of the window, with the Help Center area on the far right and containing tabs at the bottom. You can use the Contents, Index, and Search (full-text) tabs or their corresponding Help menu items. Context-sensitive help is displayed in a separate help window. (To change the default help behavior, set SQL Developer Documentation preferences.)

For help displayed in the SQL Developer window, you can close individual Help panes by clicking the X next to their tab names (just as with tabs for tables and other database objects).

To print a help topic, display it in a Help pane and click the Print icon at the top of the pane.

The best way to become familiar with the help, and with SQL Developer itself, is simply to experiment with the Help menu options and the Help button in some dialog boxes.

Tip:

You can download the online help as a single PDF file from:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/sql_developer/pdf/online_help.pdf