About sqldeveloper.download

Who runs this site

sqldeveloper.download is written and maintained by Renaud Courbet, a independent site maintainer who has documented developer-tool downloads since 2026. Every page is reviewed by the same person who measures the data — there is no company behind the site, no sponsorship from Oracle, and no advertising. You can reach the maintainer directly at [email protected], which is monitored.

Editorial standards and corrections

Two rules govern everything here. First, figures are measured or quoted, never inferred: sizes come from HTTP HEAD requests against download.oracle.com, checksums are Oracle’s own published values reproduced unchanged, and release dates come from Oracle’s documentation. Second, anything that can’t be sourced isn’t stated as fact.

If something here is wrong or out of date, email [email protected] with the page and the correction. Verifiable corrections are applied and the page’s verification date is advanced so readers can see it changed. Version data is re-checked automatically every six hours; the process is documented under how we measure the download data.

How we measure the download data

Every number on this site is measured rather than copied, and dated so you can judge how fresh it is. The current data was verified on 2026-10-22 for version 26.2.0. Here is exactly what runs:

1. Read Oracle’s own download page every six hours, using a desktop browser user agent — oracle.com returns HTTP 403 to default HTTP clients, so anything that says otherwise is not really checking.
2. Parse what Oracle publishes: the four archive URLs, the SHA-1 checksum printed beside each one, the release date, and the JDK baseline. Those checksums are Oracle’s, reproduced unchanged — we do not compute our own and present them as official.
3. Measure each archive with an HTTP HEAD request to download.oracle.com and read the exact Content-Length. That is where the MB figures come from. It is also how we can tell you the “no JDK” archive is larger than the one with JDK 17 included — a fact Oracle’s rounded labels hide.
4. Rebuild only on a real change. A new version rebuilds every page, bumps the sitemap’s last-modified dates, and notifies search engines through IndexNow. A check that finds nothing new updates the verification date and nothing else.

When any step fails to parse cleanly, the site keeps serving the last known-good snapshot instead of publishing half-updated numbers. The verification date then stops advancing — if the date above looks stale, that is the signal, not a rounding error.

What we deliberately do not do: host or mirror installers, re-package archives, wrap downloads in an installer or “download manager”, put a link behind an interstitial or an ad, or take affiliate money. The links go to Oracle, and the checksums let you prove it.

Independence and trademarks

sqldeveloper.download is an independent guide and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Oracle Corporation. Oracle and SQL Developer are trademarks of Oracle Corporation. Every download link on this site points directly to Oracle’s own distribution server, download.oracle.com.

We deliberately host no installers. Every button on this site resolves to download.oracle.com, so what you get is byte-for-byte what Oracle publishes — verifiable with the checksums we list. If you prefer to get the files from Oracle directly, use the official download page; this site exists because that page is hard to find from search, changes URL between versions, and answers none of the surrounding questions (JDK versions, Apple Silicon, old releases, launcher errors).

Privacy

No advertising, no third-party analytics, no third-party scripts. The site sets two first-party cookies used only to tell real browsers from bots, and records ordinary server logs (IP address, user-agent, referrer) plus a first-party count of download-button clicks — used in aggregate, never sold or shared. The full detail, including how to have your log entries removed, is on the privacy policy page. Security researchers: see security.txt.