Hi,
These are two Plugins which can be used for exploring the DB.
Hence it will reduce the dependency on PL/SQL Dev and Toad.
1. SourceForge.net: Eclipse SQLExplorer plugin
2. SourceForge.net: DBEdit Plugin for Eclipse
Installation is simple, just extract them in the plugin directory of Eclipse.
After you restart your Eclipse you can see one more Perspective(SQLExplorer/DBEdit) which will depend on which plugin you have installed.
Hopefully once we move to Eclipse 3.2 we will get all this features from the Data Tools Platform.
The installation instruction for SQL Exlplorer are present on this link
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/05/11/sqlexplorer.html
