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TOAD covers the entire spectrum and you thus need only TOAD.ĭH: It's the old adage: you get what you pay for.
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Plus Oracle has to keep SQL Developer and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) from duplicating most capabilities, so you may need both tools.
So of course TOAD is generally more robust. Oracle is on version 2.x while Quest is on version 10.x. SQL Developer has been on the market almost 10 years less than TOAD. LL: How does TOAD compare to Oracle's own database development tools, such as SQL Developer and other relevant tools in the Oracle 11g database?īS: I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. I regularly promote TOAD and its ease of use with tuning tasks, the PL/SQL profiler, and even the PL/SQL debugger works better than the competition. I use TOAD to check on Oracle parameter settings. I use TOAD to maintain my tablespaces as well, VERY easily.
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It is so easy to look things up in Oracle, find where particular columns are used, find some code with a partial name, etc. And for POC projects that are usually time-constrained, that time is often critical for success.ĭH: Nothing really comes to mind, but TOAD regularly saves me tons of time, though. With TOAD I look like a superstar who gets things done quickly.
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If I had to rely on all my old SQL scripts and using manual commands, it would take substantially longer. For example, can they move from a big symmetric multi processing IBM, HP or Sun box down to Intel-based servers running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)? In most cases I can monitor, diagnose and resolve most performance issues or problems within an hour using TOAD. LL: Can you describe an occasion when TOAD saved your bacon?īS: I do a lot of proof of concept (POC) work for customers. I was doing a consulting gig, using SQL*Plus on Oracle7 and someone asked if I had ever seen this?. I've been with TOAD a long time there is only one person on the team with two months more time than me.ĭan Hotka: I used TOAD in the mid '90s when it was freeware.
When I got the chance to join the TOAD team and family and to become one of the architects or product designers, I jumped at the chance. Procedure Builder and Database Manager), but none of them stood the test of time.
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Oracle experimented back then with several Windows tools (e.g. At that time (mid '90s), it was the only good general purpose, graphical user interface into Oracle databases. Linda Leung: How did you first come across TOAD? How did you use it?īert Scalzo: I started using TOAD back before the general Internet, when it was on the CompuServe forums. I caught up with the authors to discuss TOAD, how it's used, and their views on where Oracle as a company is headed. The authors updated the guide this year and in September published TOAD Handbook, Second Edition. TOAD experts Bert Scalzo and Dan Hotka first published TOAD Handbook, the definitive guide for TOAD users, in 2003. Available as a freeware or as a commercial product from Quest Software, TOAD now boasts some two million users. Primarily developed in the 1990s as a utility for developers, TOAD has evolved to become a must-have tool useful for all Oracle professionals, including administrators, managers, and analysts.