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Toad for Oracle

Simply the Best Productivity Tool for Oracle Database Professionals

Toad® for Oracle is unrivaled for ensuring the greatest possible productivity in development and administration of Oracle databases. Only Toad combines the deepest functionality available with extensive automation and intuitive workflows. With Toad, database professionals of all skill and experience levels can collaborate and work efficiently and accurately.

This Oracle database tool is available in a variety of editions to meet the unique needs of your job function.

Not everyone works with Oracle databases in the same way, which is why we offer six different editions of Toad for Oracle. Whatever your job function is, there’s a version of Toad that’ll simplify your work.

Recommended Toad Edition by Job Function:

Application Developers – The Toad for Oracle Xpert Edition gives you the power to build, edit, and format code in your Oracle database, as well as eliminate performance issues in your code. With automated SQL optimization, accessible directly from the Toad Editor, the Xpert Edition makes Oracle PL/SQL performance concerns a thing of the past.

PL/SQL Developers – The Toad Development Suite for Oracle is a complete set of Oracle development tools that ensures application success through improved code quality, performance, and maintainability. It reduces the costs associated with bugs, performance inefficiencies, inconsistent coding standards, and dispersed teams with varying skill levels.

Database Administrators – The Toad DBA Suite for Oracle enables you to become more proactive and productive by automating maintenance and other tasks, ensuring optimal performance, and mitigating the risk of change. By greatly reducing the risks associated with database vulnerability, performance, upgrades, patches, and more, Toad ensures efficiency and alleviates stress. We also offer an Oracle RAC edition of this suite.

Analysts – The Toad for Oracle Base Edition’s Toad for Data Analysts component, which is included in all editions of Toad for Oracle, is the perfect solution for analysts who need to do some development work. It puts powerful, multi-platform database analysis, querying, and reporting capabilities at your fingertips.

See a comprehensive list of Toad for Oracle’s functionality.

Client Requirements:

  • Pentium PC or higher
  • 512 MB RAM (1GB recommended)
  • 75 MB disk space/100 MB for Xpert Edition
  • Vista/2008 and Windows 7, including 64-bit
  • VGA monitor with display capabilities of at least 1024 x 768 resolution
  • Oracle SQL Net, Net 8 (32-bit only) Net 9, Net 10, Net 11 or Instant Client

Server Requirements:

  • Oracle versions 8.0.6; 8.1.7; 9i; 9iR2; 10gR1, 10gR2, 11gR1 and 11gR2
  • Any hardware platform

Toad now supports the following Cloud databases: 
Oracle on Amazon EC2 as well as the following Virtualized environments: 

Application: Citrix support on Windows Server 2003 (Service Pack 2) using the MetaFrame Presentation Server 4.0 and Citrix Presentation Server Clients 10.2
Desktop (VDI): Quest vWorkspace 7.0 on Windows XP Professional 32-bit (Service Pack 2)
Server: VMWare ESX Server 3.5 and VMWare Server Console 1.0.10 on Windows Server 2003 (Server Pack 2)

Language Supported:

  • US English

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Case Studies

Avion Uses Toad to Improve Database Reporting Accuracy and Performance for U.S. Army Aviation Operations Cisco Systems Standardizes on Toad and Doubles Developer Productivity ECAD Protects Musical Rights for Thousands of Brazilian Artists with Toad Excellent Management Systems Uses Toad® Development Suite to Help Customer Successfully Fight Compliance Lawsuit, Saving Tens of Millions of Dollars Florida Keys Community College Gains Full ROI with Toad for Oracle Within One Week of Deployment Imerys Terre Cuite optimise ses bases de données avec Toad for Oracle DBA Suite de Quest Software Interstate Battery Saves $1.5 Million with Quest Central™ for Oracle Maine Transitions to Oracle RAC with Help from Toad DBA Suite for Oracle RAC Edition Miami-Dade County Relies on Toad for Fast and Effective Application Development and Database Administration Quest Automates GCNet’s Data Replication Process to Deliver More Than 100 Percent ROI Quest Reduces Toad Licensing Hassles and Costs for Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Quest Solutions for DB2 and Toad Ensure Cost-Effective Database Management at Basler Spotlight on Oracle with RAC Diagnostics Significantly Reduces Production Downtime for Pace University State of Vermont IT Staff Uses Toad DBA Suite for Oracle to Easily Find Bottlenecks, Saving 10 Hours of DBA Time Each Week Toad Boosts Oracle Performance and Saves Money for World's Largest Online Bank Toad for Oracle Xpert Reduces SQL Query Time for Ithaca College from 10 Minutes to 0.09 Seconds Toad Simplifies Management of Generali's Various Oracle Databases While Increasing Developer Productivity and Protecting Code Toad® Dramatically Decreases Development Time for AXA Financial Toad® Helps a Large University Ace Its PeopleSoft Implementation with Improved SQL Quality and Staff Productivity Toad® Reduces Time Spent on Daily Tasks from Hours to Minutes for American Electric Power University of Massachusetts Medical School Reduces Risk while Doubling IT Staff Productivity with Toad Walter Reed Army Medical Center Leverages Toad to Improve Patient Care back to top

Technical Briefs

DBAs, Developers and Analysts - Everyone Can Benefit from Toad for Oracle Discover the Hidden Treasures of Toad Effectively Managing Oracle Standard Edition and Standard Edition One with Toad® DBA Suite for Oracle How Java Developers Can Write Great SQL Optimizing SQL Statements in SQR Predicting Oracle Performance Issues Predictive Diagnostics: Performance Modeling Proactive Performance Tuning for Enterprise Java Developers Product Review: A Perfect 10 for Toad® 10 - A Quick Tour Through the New and Improved Toad Public Sector Solution Brief: The Blackboard Academic Suite and Quest Software Simplify the Database Development and Administration of Your High-performance e-Learning Applications Searching for the Right Oracle IDE? An Examination of Toad for Oracle's Value Over Other Oracle IDEs Secrets of the Quest SQL Optimizer Testing: A Critical Aspect of Development Best Practices The Benefits of Upgrading Your Toad® for Oracle License The Top Five Reasons to Choose Toad Over SQL Developer The Value of Good Database Development Software - Expert Evaluation of SQL Developer and Toad Development Suite Three-Step Process for Ensuring High-Performing and Scalable SQL Toad for Oracle Tips and Tricks Toad for Oracle... and Java? Toad Says RAC 'Em Up! Toad® for Oracle 10.6 Toad® for Oracle v10 Toad® for Oracle v10 - Brief Technique What's New in Toad for Oracle 10.5 What's New in Toad for Oracle 11.5 What's New in Toad for Oracle v11.0 Workload Capture and Replay back to top

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