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Author: Michael Lumbard Created: 7/13/2009 6:53 AM RssIcon

Michael is a Systems Architect with the Quest PreSales Organization with over 12 years of Toad product knowledge. He specializes in the database management solutions field.  Michael has 20 plus years of IT experience in the areas of Product Management, Database Administration, Development and other Management positions.

Michael's blog will share his insights on Toad family products.

Recent postings:

By Michael Lumbard on 4/4/2011 5:11 AM
When working with Toad wouldn't it be great to be able to color coordinate the user interface per connection and your screens based on my connectivity? This paper will discuss the ability to do color coding of our database connections as well as the associated screens for each of these connections.

Many of us have the ability to work in different schemas such as Development and or Test. It can be very difficult to...
By Michael Lumbard on 12/16/2010 7:30 AM
As I talk with fellow Toad for Data Analyst users, I get a few common questions. Is there a way to color code my database connections? Wouldn't it be great to be able to color coordinate my screens based on my connectivity? Guess what - we have the ability to do color coding of our database connections as well as the associated screens for each of these connections.
By Michael Lumbard on 10/5/2009 7:42 AM
As DBAs it seems that we are always faced with issues of Database Performance. As gate keepers to our multiple database environments many of our Service Level Agreements (SLA's) can be directly tied into the health of our databases. Working with Quest's Toad solution we can now take a comprehensive look at the health of our databases with the DB Health Check.  Note: This Toad feature is only available in the commercial version...
By Michael Lumbard on 7/13/2009 6:54 AM
 

Have you ever had a need to recover data? Have you ever looked at data or maybe scripts and thought something is not correct? When working with databases there are times when we may have a loss of data or files. Has this ever happened and there is no backup information to rely on?

 

During my time as both a Developer and DBA I have worked with numerous Oracle export file (dmp files). Often I could be...
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