I love to follow in the footsteps of people who are braver, smarter and more knowledgeable than me. So I was happy to wait till SQL Maria ( Maria Colgan ) published her blog post on Oracle Database 12c now available on Docker , with step-by-step instructions for taking advantage of the new Docker image for 12.2 now available (specifically, 12.2 via Docker on Github, 12.2 via Docker at the Docker Store). I am happy to report that I can now connect SQL Developer to my containerized 12.2 database. Thank you, Maria, for a very helpful post! Now, I am not going to repeat everything Maria already wrote. That would be silly. I will simply point out some things you might find helpful as you do the same thing I did (follow in Maria's footsteps - which, literally, meant lots of copy-pasting rather dumbly). 1. Watch out for those dashes when you copy/paste. Docker was not responding as expected to my commands and I (well, actually, Gerald ) eventually noticed that the dash, copied ...
For the last twenty years, I have managed to transform an obsession with PL/SQL into a paying job. How cool is that?