Re: Freeware version of TOAD

Randy Harris wrote:
> Recently Quest changed the freeware version of TOAD to make it more like the
> licensed version. In the SQL editor, it used to have the capability to
> format the SQL code and also to build it into a VB script. I can't find
> either of these features in the new version. Am I missing them or have they
> actually been removed from free TOAD? Is that what they mean by "the SQL
> Modeler has been removed"?

Duck. Rant is coming.

One word. vi.

That and SQL*Plus are all that are needed to *write* code. Of course, writing code is a lost art these days. Which explains the utter _crap_ I see in not only in-house PL/SQL code, but also in very expensive off-the-shelve products running on Oracle and using PL/SQL.

Tools like TOAD are not tools anymore. They are crutches for so-called developers that knows jack fricken nothing about PL/SQL or what they are writing. Which is why when you take their crutches away, they flap around like fish out of water.

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Billy