Toad

Kscope11 Database Development Symposium

The Oracle Development Tools User Group’s (ODTUG) annual convention in Long Beach, CA kicks off on a Sunday with several Symposiums. There will be one dedicated to tools (link), and I’ve been asked to present Toad and how it helps with instrumenting your PL/SQL code. – ODTUG KScope11 June 26-30 (Details) – One of the [...]

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 [...]

Toad for SQL Server: Program Your SSMS SP Keys

It happens more often than I like to admit, but I was asked a question about Toad that I could not figure out. A co-worker was trying to help a customer emulate a SSMS feature – the ability to program stored procedures to a keyboard shortcut or keystroke sequence. I got part of the way [...]