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Fast, Accurate Development and Simple Administration

Toad® for Oracle

 

Toad® for Oracle is a comprehensive database tool for development and administration that enables you to perform daily tasks efficiently and accurately.

Are you an Oracle database professional responsible for any of the following tasks?

  • Oracle database development
  • Writing Oracle SQL queries (and queries on other database platforms - enabled through Toad for Data Analysts) and generating reports
  • Formatting code, ensuring coding standards are met
  • Working with PL/SQL
  • Debugging
  • SQL tuning
  • Maintaining overall database performance
  • Troubleshooting
  • General database administration and maintenance
  • Managing database or application changes

If you answered "yes" to any of these, you are in the right place.

Today’s economic environment leaves no room for error. Any misstep could damage your business and your reputation. Additionally, the volume of data in your environment is not letting up and you are often forced to do more in less time with less help. Quest Software’s Toad for Oracle can rescue you from this predicament. It gives you the power to not only build great code and prevent costly coding errors, but also simplifies the management and maintenance your Oracle databases. And, with the built-in component Toad for Data Analysts, you can also access non-Oracle databases for querying and reporting.

 

Features and Benefits

Toad® for Oracle

 

Toad® for Oracle provides:

  • Greater efficiency when performing daily tasks
  • Greater accuracy when writing, debugging and tuning code
  • Flexibility to perform many development and administration tasks from a single tool
  • A smooth workflow that allows users to move from one task to another easily
  • Extensive reporting capabilities that produce quantifiable data and documentation
  • Access to Oracle expertise through various Toad user communities, including Toad World

A complete list of Toad for Oracle features is available here.

Developer, Manager, Analyst DBA, DBA Manager
  • Toad DBA Suite for Oracle - simplify database administration and become a more proactive DBA by solving issues before end users are impacted.
  • Toad DB Admin Module (formerly Toad DBA Module) - maintain database health and stability, while minimizing the impact of changes to the database environment.

 

Toad for Oracle offers a wide range of features for building and maintaining database programs, including PL/SQL and SQL scripts. It includes a PL/SQL and SQL debugging suite and built-in knowledge bases: Knowledge Xpert for PL/SQL and Knowledge Xpert for Oracle Administration. The Toad for Oracle install also includes Toad for Data Analysts for multi-platform querying and reporting. You can:

  • Visually create queries and execute them
  • Construct and manage database objects
  • Share project assets such as templates, scripts, and code snippets, with other team members using Project Manager
  • Record workflow steps and play them back later with AppDesigner
  • Profile your PL/SQL code to find performance bottlenecks and check for code coverage
  • Access data (from any data source), understand data relationships and quickly produce reports with Toad for Data Analysts

Toad for Oracle also has its own team collaboration utility called Team Coding. Team Coding works with Toad's editor to control code access.

Toad for Oracle Professional includes all of the features in Toad for Oracle, plus CodeXpert, which automates code quality reviews for an objective and consistent review process. By incorporating rules from experts such as Steven Feuerstein, you have a virtual expert at your fingertips to advise you on your code. And, Code Reviews generate a quality and performance scorecard for your code. 

Toad for Oracle Professional also includes a data generator, which allows you to easily create multiple rows of data, for one or more Oracle tables for development and test environments.
Finally, the Export File Browser is unique functionality that simplifies the extraction of useful information, including objects and data from an Oracle export file, instead of having to import the entire file.

Toad for Oracle Xpert includes all of the features in Toad for Oracle Professional plus Quest SQL Optimizerfor Oracle to ensures the best-performing SQL is deployed to production.  It scans and analyzes SQL, then identifies potential performance issues directly from running SQL statements, PL/SQL or other source code. Quest SQL Optimizer then explores every possible way of improving SQL performance and either proves that you already have the best-performing SQL or provides you with the best-performing SQL alternative.

Toad for Oracle Xpert helps you manage database changes such as index creation, configuration changes, upgrades, migrations and others. You can analyze and compare execution plans for multiple SQL statements in different database environments to proactively identify SQL performance variations and potential performance degradation.  

Learn more about Quest® SQL Optimizer for Oracle

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Toad Development Suite for Oracle provides an easy, automated way to leverage a wide range of Toad capabilities. It ensures high-quality applications that meet user requirements and perform reliably under production conditions.

The suite comprises Toad for Oracle Xpert, Quest Code Tester for Oracle and Benchmark Factory® for Databases. It helps you focus on three areas to deploy the best possible code to production:

Learn more about the Toad Development Suite for Oracle 

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Toad DBA Suite for Oracle simplifies common database administration tasks and helps DBAs become more proactive in solving database-related performance issues before they impact the production environment. It includes all functionality in Toad for Oracle Xpert, the Toad DB Admin Module, Spotlight on Oracle Standard Edition, Toad Data Modeler and Benchmark Factory for Databases (Oracle Edition).

  • Manage, synchronize and deploy schema changes
  • Administer your databases – including users, roles, infrastructure and utilities
  • Diagnose and resolve database performance issues in real time
  • Identify problematic SQL statements directly from source code or execution in Oracle
  • Optimize SQL statements automatically through SQL rewrite and indexing
  • Manage database storage
  • Perform and schedule checks of database instance health and security
  • Replay database workload to simulate production environment in development/test databases

Learn more about the Toad DBA Suite for Oracle

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Toad for Oracle DB Admin Module (formerly Toad DBA Module) helps maintain database health and stability. It ensures the best possible efficiency and performance while minimizing the impact of changes to your database environment.

The DB Admin Module not only automates administration and reporting tasks, but it also provides a workflow that allows you to easily transition from one task to another. The Toad for Oracle DB Admin Module facilitates database administration tasks with a powerful browser-based view of performance information across multiple database instances, right down to the user session level.  With the Toad or Oracle DB Admin Module, administrators can quickly:

  • Navigate across multiple databases and perform object management with the Database Browser
  • Generate synchronization scripts, and compare and synchronize database schemas
  • View Oracle performance metrics using StatsPack Browser or the AWR (Automatic Workload Repository) Browser
  • Manage Oracle user accounts
  • Execute a 86-point health check, complete with 23 vulnerability assessment checks
  • Utilize the export file browser
  • Perform tablespace management
  • RMAN script templates
  • Schedule batch jobs