Sanjay,
This technical brief should help. There are many more than 5 reasons, as you
know, but these “Top Five Reasons to Choose Toad over SQL Developer” are
powerful.
oper812316.aspx
Thank you for advocating for Toad. The time/money/quality savings is
significant.
Good Luck!
Donna
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On Feb 29, 2012, at 12:08 AM, “Sanjay N Vadher”
wrote:
Message from: sanjayvadher
Hi Jeff,
Our Company decided to replace TOAD with freeware sql developer, we need
some strong reason & functionality\features which sql developer doesnt have
but TOAD have. could you plesae provide me such features\functionality which
TOAD have and sql developer doesnt.
I searched in google but not able to find enough material to convince my
manager\management which can give proper justification for my claim to use
only TOAD not other freeware softwares...
you can mail me on sanjayvadher@gmail.com
plese help.
Thanks
Sanjay
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Historical Messages
Author: Sanjay N Vadher
Date: Tue Feb 28 21:34:59 PST 2012
Hi Jeff,
Our Company decided to replace TOAD with freeware sql developer, we need
some strong reason & functionality\features which sql developer doesnt have
but TOAD have. could you plesae provide me such features\functionality which
TOAD have and sql developer doesnt.
I searched in google but not able to find enough material to convince my
manager\management which can give proper justification for my claim to use
only TOAD not other freeware softwares...
you can mail me on sanjayvadher@gmail.com
plese help.
Thanks
Sanjay
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Author: Sanjay N Vadher
Date: Tue Feb 28 21:24:41 PST 2012
Hi Jeff,
Our Company decided to replace TOAD with freeware sql developer, we need
some strong reason & functionality\features which sql developer doesnt have
but TOAD have. could you plesae provide me such features\functionality which
TOAD have and sql developer doesnt.
I searched in google but not able to find enough material to convince my
manager\management which can give proper justification for my claim to use
only TOAD not other freeware softwares...
plese help.
Thanks
Sanjay
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Author: Richard Squires
Date: Sun Jan 23 16:54:52 PST 2011
This is handy:
http://www.toadworld.com/Portals/0/ToadTechPapers/Why%20Toad.pdf
Now if someone was to compare PLSQL Developer, SQL Developer or any other
tools with this handy list that would be mighty handy. Unfortunately my ship
has set sail, let's see if we reach shore.
Message was edited by: R Squires
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Author: John Pocknell
Date: Thu Jan 20 07:29:08 PST 2011
Richard, If you need any kind of ROI stuff, we have that too (ROI
calculator, business case doc, etc). Please drop me an email personally.
John
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Author: Rich Jesse
Date: Thu Jan 20 07:11:06 PST 2011
> I had the "ribbet" turned on of course. :) Later that > day I was told I
could get 2 copies of Toad. LOL! I think that was everyone's favorite new
feature when I got licenses here. :) Secondarily, being able to customize
the GUI for my BAs is really huge. They don't need and don't want to see
anything but tables and indexes in the SB. Features like that, which on the
surface seem only to cater to the "my" trend in software these days, can
have real time savings for us. They're also interested in the beta's ability
to customize the schema lists in the SB. Our dev DB has almost 62000 objects
-- why should my team need to wade through all of that just to see what they
need? Toad let's 'em, and it's getting even better. I'm picky. Picky, picky,
picky. I took 6 months to research what TV I wanted. Nearly as long to find
the best Editor font. There's a reason I've been using Toad since pre-Quest
v4 days -- It's Simply The Best™. [queue lame Tina Turner soundover here]
I'll stop now before someone tells me to take it to the Toad Advocacy list.
Rich -- [TeamT] Disclaimer: Clay Matthews was just issued his 2011 Bear Tag.
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Author: Deborah Flad
Date: Thu Jan 20 04:02:45 PST 2011
Few years ago I had to justify desire for Toad w/DBA module. Were already
paying for Oracle OEM and PL/SQL Developer and O-SQL-Devel was available.
Did some routine work using all three and why each was ranked
1(best)..3(worse). Explained how excellent interaction was with Quest
Support and Toad Community. Still cost of buying “something we already
had” was biggest concern of upper mgmt so I got a “no”. Then using
PL/SQL Devel late one day I was working with MLogs and MViews as part of a
Application/DB upgrade on reporting db. PL/SQL removed more than expected,
and our prod database got locked up. Took some time to wiggle everything
back(2000+ tables) during which many users were NOT happy having a
unusable prod system. Upper Mgmt appeared at my door after all was fixed and
explanation of cause-effect-fix was written up and shared. She had one
question: Would Toad have done the same thing? My answer as “no” and I
opened up Toad to show them a few things. I had the “ribbet” turned on
of course. J Later that day I was told I could get 2 copies of Toad.
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Author: Gregory Liss
Date: Thu Jan 20 02:25:20 PST 2011
Back in the dark ages when I was a Toad user instead of a Toad developer, I
had to do that cost justification as well. I told the bean counters that
Toad saved me x hours of time per week. Take x times my billing rate. If
that number is more than the cost of Toad then the ROI is there. In my case,
I could show that Toad saved the company it's cost in around 6 weeks. Time
is money. On Jan 20, 2011, at 3:25 AM, "Dunbar, Norman (Capgemini)" wrote: >
Rich, > >>> One was "F8 rocks! > F8 - thanks. I have been looking for that
all week! I resorted to ALT-UP > and ALT-DOWN in the MOE to walk through my
history looking for the > command I wanted. Could I find it in the menus?
No. > > Now of course, I can easily find it under View->SQL Command >
Recall->History. It must have been hiding from me! > > > Cheers, > Norm.
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Author: Norman Dunbar
Date: Thu Jan 20 00:25:19 PST 2011
Rich, >> One was "F8 rocks! F8 - thanks. I have been looking for that all
week! I resorted to ALT-UP and ALT-DOWN in the MOE to walk through my
history looking for the command I wanted. Could I find it in the menus? No.
Now of course, I can easily find it under View->SQL Command Recall->History.
It must have been hiding from me! Cheers, Norm. [TeamT] Information in this
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Author: Norman Dunbar
Date: Thu Jan 20 00:17:41 PST 2011
Morning Bert, >> Just a thought to help those who have to make such an >>
argument. I'll bet most have not pitched MS Office to use >> Open Office or
Lotus Symphony (two free office clones). I have! ;-) Me: Why don't we use
Open Office instead of MS Office? Think of the money we could save. Them: We
have to use Office because everyone else does. Me: Open Office can read and
write MS Office files better than MS Office can. Them: We have to use Office
because ........... Them: ........... it's Microsoft. Me: Face/palm! >> I'll
bet that most doing .Net work are probably using MS >> Visual Studio and not
Sharp Develop, C Sharp Studio nor Mono >> Develop. Because it's Microsoft! I
have, many years ago, attempted to evaluate SQL Developer (aka Raptor at
that time) for a couple of versions for this place. It failed badly. The one
major problem I had with it, like Rich discovered, was it's slowness and the
need to re-execute the query to export the results. However, the biggie for
me, at the time, was EXPLAIN PLAN - I had a query that took hours to run so
I decided to see what SQL-D could make of it. Well, explain plan actually
executed the query and hung my desktop for hours. :-( I'm sure it's a lot
better now and we do have it as "authorised" software for use by all and
sundry, but as far as I know, no-body uses it here. People without Toad
licenses use FreeToad or SQL*Plus rather that SQL-Developer. I wonder why?
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Author: Norman Dunbar
Date: Thu Jan 20 00:04:56 PST 2011
Morning (UK time) all, Basically "what Rich said" along with "what Bert
said". But emphasis on "the developers" and "the users" on these lists. I'd
be lost without them. If cost is a problem, don't forget FreeToad. Also,
Jonathan Gennick once wrote a neat little piece in Oracle Mag, you can read
it online at
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2006/06-may/o36sql-08268
5.html, the "fun" starts about one page down at "The Pressure". As an aside
or two, I would not be using the Fill_Pivot procedure detailed in the
article - not if I wanted to keep my cache decent, plus at 11:56 he heads
out the door without logging out of the database or locking his computer
against misuse. Tut tut! ;-) I replied with this:
http://www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/J-Gennicks-SQL-Developer-write-up
-in-Oracle-Mag The above is based on a real life experience with SQL
Developer (aka Toad killer!) and it's beta release Raptor. Well, Toad is
still around! Declaration of interest: I'm TeamT. That's all, I don't get
paid to say nice things about Toad. Cheers, Norm. [TeamT] PS. Jonathan liked
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Author: Rich Jesse
Date: Wed Jan 19 21:20:00 PST 2011
> Message from: R Squires > > I'd live without it, life just wouldn't be so
much fun. The > difficulty is that in order to "Make the case that you do x,
y and z > with TOAD every day" I would also need to show how I couldn't do >
that using one of the other alternatives. It's very hard to quantify > "it's
just easier" in terms that wouldn't baffle the > people that make the money
decisions. > > I'll let you know how I go. :) I can't speak to PLSQL-D, but
I can to SQL-D: I use a lot of the various pieces of Toad for DBA work,
PL/SQL and ad-hoc querying. There was easy justification for my license
based on my previous work experience as well as my proven relationship with
the Toad Team (that little "TeamT" thing). My business analysts (well, OK,
they're not really "mine" per se) use only ad-hoc SQLs and a GUI browser for
table definitions and data. For three years, they were stuck with the free
SQL Duhveloper because that's all I could justify based on their usage --
why would anyone need a full-blown Toad for just that? 1) The Java tool
routinely blew chunks all over the place for us, causing all manner of odd
behavior in SQL-D. 2) Inflexible GUI. We're SQL-D -- you'll like the way we
do things because it must be the most efficient and user-friendly way
possible. Never mind you folks with 13000 tables and 21000 indexes! 3) BA
runs a query in SQL-D and it takes 20 minutes. Yay! Let's just save off
those results....why is it frozen up now? What do you mean it's RERUNNING
THE QUERY???!?? NOOOOOO! THOSE RESULTS WON'T BE THE SAME FOR MY TIME-BASED
QUERY!!!! Yes, sad but true. Let's just send all of our queries to the DBA
so he can run them in Toad because it's tons faster and accurate. Yay for
the DBA... 4) Time for solo DBA to manage 7 installs of that tool when I
should be spending that time castigating people for running said ad-hoc SQLs
instead. See also point #1 again. The buy in was when my boss had the most
trouble with SQL-D. That made Toad an easy sell to our CIO. Had the licenses
the next day. :) I asked for feedback after an hour long hands-on training
session and giving them a week to use Toad. One was "F8 rocks! MUCH better
than the way [SQL-D] does it!", which then prompted others to try it out --
a few more came to the same conclusion. One didn't like the layout of the
SB. So we changed it! And to be fair, one didn't care which tool they used
because they hardly needed to query our Oracle DBs. (I made a special note
about that guy...) I'm lucky to work for a place that provides the tools we
need to do our jobs in the "best" way we can. To that end, Toad is a perfect
fit. But since my beer's gone, I'm shutting up now. Enjoy! Rich -- [TeamT]
Disclaimer: I'm not a paid shill for the wonderful Toad for Oracle product.
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Author: Richard Squires
Date: Wed Jan 19 19:57:46 PST 2011
I'd live without it, life just wouldn't be so much fun. The difficulty is
that in order to "Make the case that you do x, y and z with TOAD every day"
I would also need to show how I couldn't do that using one of the other
alternatives. It's very hard to quantify "it's just easier" in terms that
wouldn't baffle the people that make the money decisions.
I'll let you know how I go. :)
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Author: Bert Scalzo
Date: Wed Jan 19 17:43:10 PST 2011
Just a thought to help those who have to make such an argument. I’ll bet
most have not pitched MS Office to use Open Office or Lotus Symphony (two
free office clones). And I’ll bet that most doing .Net work are probably
using MS Visual Studio and not Sharp Develop, C Sharp Studio nor Mono
Develop. The point being that we all routinely pay for tools we need to do
our jobs – and justify the expense many different ways. Think of TOAD the
same way. Make the case that you do x, y and z with TOAD every day and thus
cannot live without it. That’s probably more relevant than what we might
do above and beyond those other tools and that you might not use …..
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Author: Jeff Smith
Date: Wed Jan 19 15:47:35 PST 2011
No worries, and I always assume folks are American until they say otherwise,
so we’re even.
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Author: Richard Squires
Date: Wed Jan 19 15:47:35 PST 2011
Ooops, should point out I'm working in Aussie Dollars.
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Author: Jeff Smith
Date: Wed Jan 19 15:20:06 PST 2011
I might be able to help you with some documentation if you want to email me
personally. Jeff.smith@quest.com Also, the base edition of Toad is a bit
less than $1,000, not more than that.
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Author: Richard Squires
Date: Wed Jan 19 15:20:06 PST 2011
I'm sure this is a question many of you will have been asked over time and
I'm once again being asked to justify the cost of Base TOAD ($1000+)
over PLSQL Developer ($200) over Oracle's SQL Developer (Free).
Currently I use TOAD for 95% of my day to day development - Schema Browser
and SQL and PLSQL in the SQL Editor. But I do use PLSQL Developer for its
Test Window and its Debugger as TOAD either doesn't do it (the Test Window)
or doesn't do it as well (the Debugger...although I've not been back to the
TOAD debugger for a while so maybe its more stable now). And I use SQL
Developer because I need to get familiar with it because eventually it's
going to replace TOAD (and it didn't crash like my TOAD session did when I
queried a Queue Table with an XML Type in it which I think has been fixed in
a more recent version of TOAD hence why I am trying to justify upgrading).
So, has anyone produced a document recently that they could share? Does
Quest have their own comparison chart of features not included in other
products, because people are going to be asked more and more why we would
spend 10s thousands of dollars on TOAD when Oracle has their own free
version.
Cheers
Richard
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