For most couples, ‘date night’ is something to look forward to, but unfortunately does not come around often enough. For others, even the word ‘date’ sends a chill down their spine. It’s not an adverse reaction to their partner, but rather a unpleasant reminder to the daily toil that is working with DATE formatted data [...]
Toad® Stuff (Retired)
This is where I’ll post my content concerning Quest Software’s Toad Product Family.
My Toad Bible
Ok, I admit, I threw that title up because I wanted to draw attention to my site, guilty-as-charged. However, this is pretty close to being my ‘Toad Bible‘, i.e. my authoritative take on Toad. I reckon it’s my job to educate the market on all things Toad, so that’s where the authoritative piece comes in. [...]
Quest Backup Reporter for Oracle
Quest just released a new tool into the wild. DBAs and systems administrators can now get a better handle on the state of their Oracle backups with a very light-weigh easy to install tool called Quest Backup Reporter for Oracle. You can read a complete overview of the product here, but here are the basics: [...]
Toad on an iPad
No, we have not added native support for Toad to run on a platform other than Windows. No, I can’t tell you when that will happen. In the meantime, I thought you might enjoy a story about someone who has successfully setup his iPad to run Toad. @BigJim is a friend of mine on Twitter [...]
Reverse Engineer Views into an ERD
ERD – Fancy way of saying Entity-Relationship Diagram Since version 10.0 of Toad for Oracle, users have been able to select a table and have an ERD generated that automatically includes any related tables via Referential Integrity. However, what if you are trying to document a view which may bring in one or more other [...]

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