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Toad and Database Commentaries |
Toad World blogs are a mix of insightful how-tos from Quest experts as well as their commentary on experiences with new database technologies. Have some views of your own to share? Post your comments! Note: Comments are restricted to registered Toad World users.
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JohnPocknell |
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Monday, March 12, 2007 |
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John Pocknell is a product manager at Quest Software based out of the European HQ in Maidenhead UK. John has worked in I.T. for over 20 years, primarily in Oracle-based application design and development. John spends significant time with customers at Toad User Groups and Oracle User Groups throughout the world, evangelizing Toad products.
John's blog provides useful "how to" and "tips and tricks" covering topics such as database best practices as well as valuable updates on the Toad family of products including JProbe.
Recent postings:
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Data Grid Differences Between Toad® 9.7 and 10.x |
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
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For those of you who have already upgraded from an older version of Toad to Toad version 10, you will no doubt notice some visual changes and behavioural differences in the data grids.
Our Toad development team wrote an
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What's New In JProbe® 8.3? |
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Sunday, February 07, 2010
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The next release of our popular enterprise-class Java profiler is about to hit the streets and we thought we'd give you a heads-up now to let you know what's coming!
The primary focus of this release is all about usability – right from installation and licensing to configuration ready for use. We've significantly revamped the whole user experience which should get you up-and-runni ...
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A New Toad® DBA Suite...for Oracle RAC |
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) is a single database that is shared by multiple Oracle instances. It provides opportunities for improved database availability, performance and scalability. Oracle RAC lowers the TCO of a high-end database and IT assets, since a complex Oracle database can be set-up on low-cost, standard, modular parts. Oracle RAC has matured into a true enterprise, scalable solution, but t ...
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Toad® for Oracle 10.1 Updates |
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
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For those of you who haven’t yet upgraded to Toad 10, or were perhaps waiting until the first minor release, here’s a quick synopsis of what really characterizes Toad 10.
Toad for Oracle v10 offers new features and many enhancements to existing features, all of it designed to augment your workflow and to enable you to get your job done more productively ...
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What’s New in Toad® for Oracle 10 – Part 2 |
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
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The very latest generation of Toad for Oracle is about to hit the streets (early October) so we thought we’d give you a quick preview now so you’ll be up to speed when it’s released. This blog is part 2 and covers more of the new features and updates.
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What’s New in Toad® for Oracle 10 – Part 1 |
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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The very latest generation of Toad for Oracle is about to hit the streets (early October) so we thought we’d give you a quick preview now so you’ll be up to speed when it’s released.
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Introducing a New Free Utility Download – Toad Group Policy Manager |
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009
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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.
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Introducing a New Free Utility Download – SQL Monitor |
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009
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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 ...
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Always like to be on the latest version? |
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009
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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 8th
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Extending Toad for Oracle’s Code Xpert with the SonarSource dashboard |
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Monday, July 06, 2009
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Written by Olivier Gaudin
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 ...
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What Is Unicode? (Part 2) |
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Monday, June 08, 2009
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In this blog, I hope to be able to help you understand how Unicode is handled on your Windows PC/notebook and how to configure your PC/notebook in order to be able to effectively use Unicode in Toad.
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What Is Unicode? (Part 1) |
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Monday, June 01, 2009
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As some of you may already be aware, we are releasing our next version of Toad (version 10.0) later this year and it will have one or two “under the cover” differences. Unicode support is one of those differences and is probably one of the most significant technology upgrades in Toad’s history.
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Options, Options and More Options |
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Monday, May 04, 2009
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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, it can be a bit of a challenge finding what you are looking for.
So the objective of this blog is to help you get a handle on what the main options are that you probably need to know about.
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Powerful Code Formatting in Toad |
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009
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In this week’s blog, I’d like to introduce you to Toad’s Formatter. For those older “Toadies”, you’ll be familiar with its predecessor Formatter Plus.
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Configuring Toad’s Team Coding with Subversion |
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Monday, September 22, 2008
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With Toad for Oracle 9.7 now available, I thought I’d cover how to configure and use Subversion with Toad’s code sharing utility – Team Coding. We had a lot of requests for this integration and here it is !
The Subversion implementation in Toad allows you to use the conventional file-based check-out and check-in via the Editor’s File Open bu ...
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What’s Coming in Toad 9.7 - Part 2 |
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Friday, August 29, 2008
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It’s almost that time again as another exciting new release of Toad draws closer! We’ve decided that, rather than let you wait until Toad 9.7 is released before you see what’s new, we’ll give you a little fore-taste now! In this final blog (
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What’s Coming in Toad 9.7 - Part 1 |
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Friday, August 22, 2008
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It’s almost that time again as another exciting new release of Toad draws closer !
We’ve decided that, rather than let you wait until Toad 9.7 is released before you see what’s new, we’ll give you a little preview now !
The main objectives of this release are to provide improved knowledge and e ...
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Toad...and Java??!! |
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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I thought that’d grab your attention!
We know there are a lot of PL/SQL developers out there who are looking to make (or have already made) a break into application development using a more popular programming language like Java as well as many Java developers who use Toad to make access to Oracle easier.
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Toad and Oracle Licensing – What’s the Story ? |
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
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Toad for Oracle may use, but is not dependent upon, Oracle database options such as RAC, Partitioning and Spatial and Enterprise Management (OEM) Packs such as Tuning and Diagnostics depending on various factors. Such Toad features include (but not limited to) ADDM/AWR Reports and AWR Browser which are part of the optional DB Admin module add-on.
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What’s Coming in Toad for Oracle 9.6? (Part 3) |
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Monday, March 17, 2008
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It’s almost that time again as another exciting new release of Toad draws closer !
We’ve decided that, rather than let you wait until this release of Toad before you see what’s new, we’ll give you a little fore-taste now !
The emphasis on this release is to simultaneously conti ...
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What’s Coming in Toad for Oracle 9.6? (Part 2) |
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Friday, March 07, 2008
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It’s almost that time again as another exciting new release of Toad draws closer !
We’ve decided that, rather than let you wait until this release of Toad before you see what’s new, we’ll give you a little fore-taste now!
The emphasis on this release is to ...
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What’s Coming in Toad for Oracle 9.6 ? (Part 1) |
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
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It’s almost that time again as another exciting new release of Toad draws closer !
We’ve decided that, rather than let you wait until this release of Toad before you see what’s new, we’ll give you a little fore-taste now !
The emphasis on this release is ...
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