LL: Can you describe an occasion when TOAD saved your bacon?īS: I do a lot of proof of concept (POC) work for customers. I was doing a consulting gig, using SQL*Plus on Oracle7 and someone asked if I had ever seen this?. I've been with TOAD a long time there is only one person on the team with two months more time than me.ĭan Hotka: I used TOAD in the mid '90s when it was freeware. When I got the chance to join the TOAD team and family and to become one of the architects or product designers, I jumped at the chance. Procedure Builder and Database Manager), but none of them stood the test of time. Oracle experimented back then with several Windows tools (e.g. At that time (mid '90s), it was the only good general purpose, graphical user interface into Oracle databases.
Linda Leung: How did you first come across TOAD? How did you use it?īert Scalzo: I started using TOAD back before the general Internet, when it was on the CompuServe forums. I caught up with the authors to discuss TOAD, how it's used, and their views on where Oracle as a company is headed. The authors updated the guide this year and in September published TOAD Handbook, Second Edition. TOAD experts Bert Scalzo and Dan Hotka first published TOAD Handbook, the definitive guide for TOAD users, in 2003. Available as a freeware or as a commercial product from Quest Software, TOAD now boasts some two million users. Primarily developed in the 1990s as a utility for developers, TOAD has evolved to become a must-have tool useful for all Oracle professionals, including administrators, managers, and analysts. Oracle professionals love TOAD, the world's premier third-party Oracle utility for administrative and development tasks.
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