Oracle SQL Developer 3.0 and MySQL

Recently I noticed I was getting frequent ‘Vendor code 1317’ errors
as I tried to browse table schemas in MySQL databases.

This error is described here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2669439/oracle-sql-developer-vendor-code-1317

and here:

https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1129518

These articles indicate that going back to earlier versions of the
MySQL JDBC driver will fix the error. However I tried this and
it didn’t seem to work.  I still got the error with
mysql-connector-java-5.0.8 and mysql-connector-java-5.0.4, as
well as the JDBC driver which is available through
Help -> Check for Updates.

What did finally work for me was to downgrade SQL
Developer from the latest version that I was using
(sqldeveloper-3.0.04.34) all the way back to
sqldeveloper-1.5.5.59.69.

Legacy SQL Developer versions are available at the bottom
of the page at
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/downloads/index.html

Update (12/12/2012): These days I'm using Squirrel SQL as my general purpose SQL IDE for a lot of different databases.