Re: Experiences with T.O.A.D.?

I have used toad and SQL NAvigator . toad has real easy to use menus and tabs but I like sqlnav's debugger

Dan
Bent Mathiesen <bm_at_tli.de> wrote in message news:c9qlms8g89llct21i4ld61r8ldjv5jbo8e_at_4ax.com...
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:50:14 +0530, Abhijit Mazumder
> <amazumde_at_NOSPAM.cal2.vsnl.net.in> wrote:
>
> >Carsten Jacobs wrote:
> >
> >> Hello
> >> I'm looking for developers and/or DBAs who have experiences with the
> >> third party product T.O.A.D.
> >> I really need a comfortable tool, to develop PL/SQL applications,
> >> administer and monitor the database.
> >> If you have some experiences whith T.O.A.D, just let me know. It can be
> >> very short like: good, ok oder bad.
> >> Any other recommendation is welcome.
> >>
> >> Thanks for sharing.
> >> Carsten
> >
> >I've reviewed TOAD as part of my job. It is a pretty decent tool, and
> >makes the job of the programmer quitre useful. Though it doesn't have as
> >many features as SQL Navigator (from the same vendor), it is infact quite
> >useful for my team of developers.
> >
> >Abhijit
>
>
> I agree with Abhijit.
>
> I have been using Oracle 5 - Oracle 8.1.6 - and a number of tools in
> different installations (large installations). Here, the developers
> use TOAD for developing - and it work fine. A license for TOAD is not
> that cheap, but considering the price for a good developer it is not
> that bad. TOAD have a number of modules you can apply - like for
> administration.
>
> Quest also make a number of other products, like "instanse monitor".
> It work ok. I will not recommend or not - I'm just saying it exist and
> you should try it (as an DBA).
>
> They also make "Live reorg". A tool for reorg some data (index), but
> as it is possible to make that in Oracle 8i on-the-fly, it is hard to
> justify the expense if you are using that version of Oracle.
>
> Sincerely
>
> Bent Mathiesen
> (system specialist, Unix/Linux, Oracle, NT, Internet, Security)
>
Received on Tue Jul 18 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT