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Toad World blogs are a mix of insightful how-tos from Quest experts as well as their commentary on experiences with new database technologies. Have some views of your own to share? Post your comments! Note: Comments are restricted to registered Toad World users.
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dnorwood |
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4/30/2008 9:43 AM |
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Daniel Norwood is a Product Manager for Quest Software. Daniel brings over 10 years experience in the software industry specializing in relational database systems and related technologies. In addition to product management, Daniel has worked in support, testing and project management capacities, constantly focused on understanding and meeting customers’ needs.
Daniel's blog provides useful “how to” and “tips and tricks” on Toad for Data Analysts and Toad Extension for Visual Studio.
Recent postings on Toad for Data Analysts:
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Getting to know the Query Builder in Toad for Data Analysis |
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11/5/2008 3:04 PM
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Query Builder is the heart and soul of Toad for Data Analysis. We've spent lots of time and effort working to make it very useful and intuitive. Recently, in version 2.0 of Toad for Data Analysis, we introduced a few new features including reverse engineering SQL to a Query Builder model, creation of DDL scripts and better connection awareness. The linked doc is a very nice write up that Shawn Pickett (Senior Developer) and Alan Bala (Development Team Lead) have put together.
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Writing Better Queries Starts With Understanding |
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6/23/2008 6:52 AM
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For those of you who may not come from a super-technical background, the term “ER Diagrammer” may sound strange or unfamiliar. Well, for the record, the term “ER Diagrammer” stands for “Entity Relationship Diagrammer” – a fancy name for a tool that displays the relationships between objects (like tables) in the ...
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Changing the look and feel of Toad for Data Analysis |
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5/20/2008 1:44 AM
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We’ve done a lot in Toad© for Data Analysis to make it user friendly and intuitive. Naturally, what’s user friendly to one person may be a bit confusing to someone else. This post will show you how Toad for Data Analysis can be changed to something more comfortable or familiar.
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Working With Date Ranges in Toad for Data Analysis |
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4/30/2008 10:13 AM
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Often when writing a query you need to get data from a range of dates; when you start thinking about automating the SQL query it’s even more important. In this post I’ll show you a quick trick to let Toad for Data Analysis figure it out for you!
For this example I’ll be working with Oracle though it’s no different for other ...
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