Re: How do you think about Quest tools?

I have only used Toad. If you are a PL/SQL developer/DBA Toad is the tool for you. It is invaluable. I seem to find new things about it that solves most developers problems. While it is expensive, (about 500 + 125 for 1st year support only) it is worth the cost. If you establish a good communication line a sales rep, you can get group lic. discounts 10-20%, especially towards quarter end where they want to sell sell sell!

One other note on their support for Toad; they are very efficient and helpful, hopefully u dont need to call for a tool like this, but their email service and calls were taken care of quickly, which is a big plus in my book. ok I'm starting to sound like a sales man, enough of that!

SQL Navigator is Quests original product before they bought Toad. very similar tool, but Toad is more user friendly.

dewboy

"Dino Hsu" <dino1_at_ms1.hinet.net> wrote in message news:aqihitsiujua423vj0apsqsgofq9fjc0jn_at_4ax.com...
> Dear all,
>
> Today I attended a seminar about Quest's DBA products, including:
> 1.I/Watch: database monitoring and notification (historical analysis)
> 2.Spotlight: real-time diagnostics
> 3.Space Manager: storage management, including reorg
> 4.Live Reorg: the same Space Manager, but reorg can be done on the fly
> 5.Shema Manager: schema management
> 6.Share Plex: advanced replication
> 7.SQLLab Vision & Xpert: SQL analysis
> 8.TOAD & SQL Navigator: PL/SQL development tools
> Quest focuses on mission-critical and high-availability markets,
> supports and integrates with platforms from top vendors, such as
> Oracle, DB2, SQL Server databases, Oracle, SAP, Peoplesoft ERP's,
> Windows and Unix's (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX) OS's, etc..
>
> What do you think about its products? Any company uses them? Thanks
> for your comments.
>
> Dino
>
>
Received on Fri Jun 15 2001 - 11:34:19 CDT