Last week’s blog was part 2 of a 3 part series about techniques for optimizing a notebook PC for running Oracle database within a virtual machine. In

Last week’s blog was part 1 of a 3 part series about techniques for optimizing a notebook PC for running Oracle database within a virtual machine. In

Written by Jeff Smith, Quest Solutions Architect

Toad is a brand at Quest. We have several tools that have been built explicitly for developers and administrators in ...

People have often asked me “How do I optimize my Oracle virtual machines running on my meager notebook PC?” So I decided to put together this quick checklist to assist with just that question.

 

Let's assume that you have the typical recent or last generation of notebook PC, that is one with a dual core CPU and say a max 4 GB of RAM. Her ...

Check out this video. IBM claims to now provide native support for PL/SQL programs, including support for many built-in packages, collections, etc. Wow! Lots more details here, but you will find below some& ...

Managing and working with large scripts can be challenging. Failures during the execution of such scripts can make a person downright cranky. Personally, I’ve never liked scrolling through hundreds of lines of code to isolate the problem in a script, hopefully correct the issue, and then attempt to restart the execution at the proper line. For those of you using Toad for DB ...

Like most applications, Preferences or Options enable the user to make changes to the default configuration to suit the way they work. The same is true for Toad but there are so many, for some it can be a bit of a challenge finding what they are looking for.

 

The objective of this blog is to help you get a handle on what the main options are that you pro ...

While TOAD offers numerous capabilities, many people often spend a majority of their time simply “browsing” existing table data. Even when writing SQL or PL/SQL code to perform some business function or action, developers need to see what the data looks like in order to write the code. And of course business analysts and managers often look at the data in order to spot patterns or drive rep ...

When the going gets tough and budgets get tight, money for training is often cut first. You still, however, need to learn how to best leverage the PL/SQL language and write high quality code. To help you, Quest is offering a three-part, webcast training series that I will be teaching. Each session consists of two hours of in-depth coverage of a specific functionality area or best practice.

What a big relief....I was in the beta program, checking out the new features of PL/SQL in this latest release of the Oracle database. That's quite a privilege, but also a burden; Oracle is very severe about not wanting us to talk about upcoming features before they officially release the product to their adoring public.

 

That's toug ...

Under the Editor menu in Toad for Oracle we have the “Make Code” & “Strip Code” features which allow you to embed SQL Statements in a programming language of your choice.

 

For example you can take the following statement:

[ It is very likely that if you are reading this you are a developer, but this is really geared towards software managers. So feel free to copy and paste into a Word doc and pass it along to your manager or team lead! ]

 

I very often give trainings and presentations on the topic of PL/SQL best practices. I offer lots of ideas for writing code that is eas ...

Written by Rene Woody

This blog is a continuation of a series about test running the SQL statements in the Tuning Lab in Quest SQL Optimizer for Oracle to find the best performing SQL statement in your database envi ...

I have written a book about Optimizing Oracle on VMware, plus have both a paper and

One critical task for DBA's is maintaining their database versioning history. For example the database objects were in some specified state (in terms of their construction) on such and such a date. The key reason this is critical is that application updates and bug fixes often require database modifications. So the DBA must maintain a database versioning history that matches such changes. There are two chief re ...

By default, adding an entity to a Workspace will cause this entity to be added to every workspace within your model. Well, the entity isn’t really being duplicated; it’s just that a shortcut to that entity is being added to every workspace in the model. Recently, we’ve received some questions from customers asking how they can change this behavior. Fortunately, it’s really easy to do. Before I tell y ...

This blog is a continuation of a series about test running the SQL statements in the Tuning Lab in Quest SQL Optimizer for Oracle to find the best performing SQL statement in your database environment. It covers why the run time of a SQL statement may vary from one execution to th ...

I sometimes worry that people are confused about how to use the Quest SQL Optimizer for Oracle to help them tune their SQL statements. The solution is extremely powerful and provides you with the options to control numerous aspects of the optimization process. In fact, I suggest you read Richard To’s articles on Toad World to get an in depth understanding of the optimization process ...

Our experts at Quest continue to work hard to develop educational material for our end users to learn from, thus allowing them to become product experts themselves. Unfortunately, due to the hectic schedule of our end users, they are sometimes unable to put all the pieces together. In this blog, I piece together some steps for using the Toad Data Modeler and tying it back to Toad for Oracle ...

I am very happy to announce that we went GA with Toad for DB2 V4.5 on 7/21. This is by far the biggest, best release of Toad for DB2 to date. With this version we have introduced a full featured database administrator’s tool capable of handling the largest DB2 environments.

 

Some of the highlights of the 4.5 release are:

I spend way too much of my life on airplanes zipping around to different places, doing presentations and trainings on PL/SQL. In the process, I meet many PL/SQL developers – and I continue to be surprised and disappointed at how many developers do not know about or at least do not seem to take advantage of very powerful and useful features of PL/SQL. So I have to decided to list below all those elements of PL/S ...

Sometimes information systems professionals can get “caught up” in our own worlds. For example, project managers and their developers might focus on latest and greatest application development methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP) or Agile Development. Likewise enterprise architects might be adopting some new or updated modeling conventions. While database administrators (DBA’s) ar ...

 

Have you ever had a need to recover data? Have you ever looked at data or maybe scripts and thought something is not correct? When working with databases there are times when we may have a loss of data or files. Has this ever happened and there is no backup information to rely on?

 

During my t ...

Dan Hotka and I wrote the TOAD Handbook back in 2003. Of course since then TOAD has changed quite a bit – both in terms of the graphical user interface and functionality. Thus we have updated the content and created th ...

You may already be familiar with the Toad World Exclusive Freeware area from where you can download and use really useful utilities such as the PL/Vision Code Library and the Freeware version of Quest Code Tester for Oracle.

 

Well here is another utility you’re going to find really interesting and it’s called the Toad Group Policy Manager.

You may already be familiar with the Toad World Exclusive Freeware area from where you can download and use really useful utilities such as the PL/Vision Code Library and the Freeware version of Quest Code Tester for Oracle.

 

Now there are two more which I’d like to introduce you to – one which has been around for many years and the other a relative newc ...

As many of you may be aware, Toad for Oracle is available in a number of different Editions and Suites. For those of you who have Toad Development Suite for Oracle or Toad DBA Suite for Oracle, there are a number of recent product updates which you can take advantage of now (GA Release Date July 8^th

 

Toad for Oracle’s Code Xpert utility (part of the Toad Professional Edition) is one of the best PL/SQL code analyzers available on the market, embedding the know-how of leading PL/SQL experts such as Steven Feuerstein. However, although there is the option to st ...