You can work with data objects through SQL statements in statement area. If you want to work with data objects interactively, you should use the object browser. The following tutorial steps help you to browse data objects:

► Click the Connections tab.

► Open the Connections icon.

► Open a connection, like Local_XE. You see a list of data object types.

► Open the Connections icon.

► Open Tables. You see list of existing tables.

► Open a table, like EMPLOYEES. You see a list of columns.

► Double-click a table, like EMPLOYEES. You see a list of tabs opened for this table.

Once a table opened, SQL Developer offers you many views on this table, like Columns, Data, Indexes, Constraints, Statistics, Triggers, etc.