You may have heard the term ‘ROWID’ many times without really stopping to think about what purpose it serves. The end user – or even the application developer themselves – will rarely have a need to interface with a ROWID. Even so, ROWIDs do a lot of cool things. According to Oracle, ‘They are the [...]
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Toad Trick: Filtering Schemas in Oracle
In five minutes see how you can save yourself a few seconds every time you want to switch from one schema to another in Toad. You can read more about filtering in Toad in my blog post from several years ago – Finessing Filters and Other Fun Features. More Toad Videos Liked this but looking [...]
Toad 11 Sneak Peek Part Deux
I had some time to beta test this morning, and I thought I would share some of the new tweeks and features that will be available in version 11.0 of Toad for Oracle. I spent some time previously showing off a new feature for you PL/SQL geeks out there, Code Analysis. If you are a [...]
Stump the Toad Chump!
Ask questions, get answers – and a Toadie! He wants questions. You want answers (and a Toad). So, ask away – stump the Toad chump! We’re looking for challenging questions dealing with Oracle Database and Toad, for example: Can Toad do that? I had this problem once where… I hate it when… The Rules! If [...]
Toad Jobs
A lot of good news this week about jobs here in the United States and a bunch of new hires for the month of April has many people feeling much better about the US economy. After being hammered with depressing reports for the past two years, it’s very nice to see the pendulum swing in [...]

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