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

[Quoted] 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 11 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST