

It must be the most efficient and user-friendly way possible. We’re SQL-D – you’ll like the way we do things because The Java tool routinely blew chunks all over the place for us, causing “mine” per se) use only ad-hoc SQLs and a GUI browser for table definitionsįor three years, they were stuck with the free SQL Duhveloper because that’sĪll I could justify based on their usage – why would anyone need a My business analysts (well, OK, they’re not really Work experience as well as my proven relationship with the Toad Team (that

There was easy justification for my license based on my previous

I use a lot of the various pieces of Toad for DBA work, PL/SQL and ad-hoc

I can’t speak to PLSQL-D, but I can to SQL-D: “it’s just easier” in terms that wouldn’t baffle the That using one of the other alternatives. With TOAD every day” I would also need to show how I couldn’t do Theĭifficulty is that in order to “Make the case that you do x, y and z I’d live without it, life just wouldn’t be so much fun. 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. 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). 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). 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).Ĭurrently I use TOAD for 95% of my day to day development - Schema Browser and SQL and PLSQL in the SQL Editor.
