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Integrated Development Environment
An integrated development environment (IDE) facilitates application development. An IDE is a software suite that consolidates the basic tools developers need to write and test code including SQL. Typically, an IDE contains a code editor, a compiler or interpreter and a debugger that the developer accesses through a single graphical user interface (GUI). An IDE may be a standalone application or included as part of a compatible application. An IDE's toolbar looks like that of a word processor. The tools are represented by icons on the toolbar to facilitate various tasks, |