Hi Melanie,
that’s a difficult task you have there!
I’d start by a quick intro to Toad as a replacement for SQLPlus. Show
that whatever you can do in SQLPlus, Toad does better as the results
are in a grid that can be exported and so on. (Plain SQL, editable
grids, commits and rollbacks - why the buttons for these don’t always
work (statements in separate threads!) for code in the MOE.
Once that [chapter] miss out of the way, a quick dive into the many many
options in Toad that could prove to be the most useful - turn off auto
commit for example (explain why having it on is a bad idea). No need to
get too in-depth with the options.
Schema Browser next up. Different styles - drop down, tree view, tabbed
or multi-tabbed as well, if you must! (I’m a T.V. man myself with
leanings towards drop down!)
Mention, as often as you can, that right clicking almost anywhere allows
you to do “exciting” things that may not have a button or main menu
option.
PL/SQL editing - and how the users should NEVER edit code directly from
the database (an option probably mentioned in the above chapter on
options) - It may help prevent production databases being fiddled with.
This chapter would most likely cover, procedures, function, packages,
triggers etc. Show how Toad makes life so much easier with it’s code
highlighting, over what SQL*Plus lets you do!
Version control would be next up. After all the writing of code, you
really need to keep it safe. I suspect I would concentrate mostly on the
use of SubVersion etc using third party add-one as opposed to Toad’s
Team Coding options - simply because the latter require objects creating
inside the individual databases whereas the third party stuff only needs
TortoiseSVN - for example - or a third party dll to connect to the
version control system of choice.
So, you have coded some code, and saved it away in version control,
explain the various debuggers next.
Actions (as was) Automation Designer as is.
An overview section on the advanced options you can have - DBA etc.
An appendix with all current Toad Options and what they can do you the
user. Maybe?
An appendix with details of where to go for help:
- Support
- Toad Groups
- Toad World.
- TeamT
- Etc.
An appendix of all the TLAs and ETLAs used in Toad - MOE, SB, LHS, RHS
etc.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Norm. [TeamT]
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