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

From: Keith Jamieson <jamiesonk_at_phoenix.ie>
Date: 2000/07/12
Message-ID: <8khd1n$jae$1_at_kermit.esat.net>#1/1


I am using TOAD quite successfully on a windows NT machine with 128 Meg Memory
Bent Mathiesen wrote in message ...
>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)
>
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