Your Problem: You receive code from developers who do not have access to Toad, or choose not to take advantage of Toad’s SQL & PL/SQL Formatter. Before checking their code into your source control repository, you need to format them so they meet your standards. The Solution: Toad for Oracle’s Automation Designer. Toad’s Automation Designer [...]
Toad for Oracle
News, tips, tricks, and other fun facts about the most popular Oracle database tool.
Capture and Replay Oracle Activity
Sound familiar? Perhaps you have heard of Oracle’s Real Application Testing (RAT) (docs)? An excellent feature, although you will pay for it. If you need a cheaper alternative, then Quest Software might have what you are looking for in Benchmark Factory for Databases (product details). New for v6.5, Benchmark Factory (BMF), now assists you in [...]
Elevenses
Everyone likes to read into numbers and significant dates. Numerology (wiki) attributes a connection from the world of numbers to the physical world. Even though I don’t believe in such things, I can’t help but take advantage of the opportunity to focus on the number ‘11.’ It’s eleventh day of 2011. Toad’s Development Manager is [...]
Three (4) Ways to get Data into Excel with Toad
I have been really hard on Excel lately. Excel is an excellent tool. Tools can be misused and abused, but it’s not their fault. I should know this being an advocate for Toad, but I digress. Updated on 1/5/2011 to include 4th Method and add note on ‘Display all results in grid’ option. You want [...]
Toad for Oracle Tip: Custom Queries
There are SO many little nuggets in Toad that you can take advantage of. To list all of them would be a daunting task. Here’s one that you may have overlooked, Custom Queries. If you right-mouse-click on an object in the Schema Browser, you’ll see a list of operations you can perform. Take a second [...]

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