Hello,
I am looking for a tool that i can manage my SQL Server easily.
I can see that there is 2 tools that look the same:
2)Toad for SQL Server
What are you reccomnded?
And what are the diffrences between Toad Data Point and Toad for SQL Server?
thanks in advance
Well the first main reason is that TOAD Data Point is an ODBC connecting client, that allows you to connect to virtually any database for building queries involving data from multiple sources (something I wish TOAD for SQL Server would allow me to do as well as connect to SQL Server!). However, you will not get the full features of SQL Server on TDP as you would using TOAD for SQL Server. Otherwise what’s the point of having two different products?
If you’re a SQL Server DBA, TOAD for SQL Server is paramount I think. However, if you’re a data analyst that wants to report data from various sources, including csv, xml, Excel, Access, etc then TDP is for you. You may need both TOAD for SQL Server and TDP if you’re also managing SQL Server databases, which is what I do, as I need to link client datasets from Excel spreadsheets with SQL Server, without the need to create tables in SQL Server and import data in from Excel (pain!).
We tried to use Toad for SQL Server to manage SQL Server databases. However, the features that we needed; debugger, schema compare and sync, data compare and sync did not work. We recently (March 2026) spoke with Quest tech support and they advised that the debugger is still not fixed.
We currently use Toad Data Point to build queries which we then use to create stored procedures and functions. TDB is one of the few tools available that provides a drag and drop query builder.
TDP’s Professional Edition’s help info states that TDP performs schema compares. However, Quest tech support says that the feature is not available.