I decided to move forward and get the 30 day trial and will check the db for processes in a couple of days. If there are none, I can go back to the DBA and prove my point. Thanks for the responses.
Daniel
The DBA is stating that the "sniped" connections are being left behind in the database after you close PL/SQL Developer and will continually grow until they are manually cleaned up or the database bounced. I do not think they are concerned with respect to transaction data.
Has anyone heard that PL/SQL Developer can leave "sniped" connections within Oracle that do not get cleaned up?
I have been working with PL/SQL Developer for about 2 years and have never had an issue. I recently switched jobs and would like to convince our DBA Team Lead that it is ok, but he...