Re: Has anyone used the QuestSqlPlus Toad tool from Toadsoft?

"jim" <jmmcda_at_mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<qCob9.55462$Xa.2875480_at_twister.southeast.rr.com>...
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> > > Those who embrace GUIs will appear to be mentally retarted and
> > > helpless, because TOAD will ALWAYS be a few releases behind Sql*plus!
> > >
> > > In the end the dinosaurs will make the CLUELESS gui DOMBOS obsolete,
> > > because the dinosaurs have learned to THINK, and the gui dombos have
> > > only learned to CLICK.
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> > Gui-types, mentally retarded, clueless Dombos, Obsolete... What a great
> > old-fashioned tirade against progress this is!
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> Oh, I hear his sort of rants all the time. But they are becoming fewer and
> fewer (and lamer and lamer) as they are slowly pulled into the new century
> and the new tools. Long before he joined Quest, Steven F was showing TOAD
> as a means to producing BETTER and more solid Pl/Sql Code. Eyal Aranoff or
> was it Dan Hotka presented a course on Sql Tuning using TOAD. The book

Exactly! Nearly every speaker at every OOW and ODTUG I attend uses TOAD to some degree in their work. It's difficult for anyone such as Baker to stick his neck out is such a way when all the best of the best are using TOAD and advocating it's use for writing good Sql and debugging quality Pl/Sql. He is truly showing himself to be in the last herd of *SqlPlus/Notepad holdouts.

But I just took a shot at your QuestSqlPlus and you have another winner on you hands. I run a lot of my script through it and it burped once and I'll send you that one (based on your rep, I can probably download the fix tomorrow). There are still more bells and whistles you could incorporate but then you'd be duplicating TOAD itself and the current version is nice and small and lighweight. I'd suggest ECHO ON/OFF as one of the defaults on the option window though, btw.

But overall, a Sql*Plus killer. Unless I start finding my scripts choking on me, I'll stick with this one. It even picks up the TOAD freeware's editor fonts! Cool.

Are you guys gonna keep this one free? Received on Sat Aug 31 2002 - 10:41:17 CDT