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Jeff Smith's Blog
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| JeffSmith |
11/11/2009 |
Quick, what’s the number one complaint about Toad for Oracle?
“The User Interface is waaaaaaaaay too complicated!”
Out of the box, Toad’s setup to pretty much have everything enabled. If we hid stuff, there’s a good chance users would assume the functionality just wasn’t there to be taken advantage of. And, as John so elegantly put it in his latest whitepaper on QuestDotCom, it’s easy for a tool to be elegant when the tool only does one or two things.
Toad does just about everything, so it’s likely the features you do not need or want may get in your way. Fortunately there’s a very easy solution to this: turn off or disable the features you do not use!
In about 5 minutes I setup this Toad desktop:
- I disabled most of the toolbars
- I removed buttons from the remaining toolbars I don’t ever use
- I converted most of the buttons from esoteric graphics to just plain text buttons like so
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- I closed the desktop panels I never use
- SQL Recall (I use the keyboard shortcuts instead, faster plus less real estate)
- Object Palette (I’m faster on the keyboard with F4 and Ctr+Period)
- In the Editor, I turned off the output panels I use infrequently and limited it to the Data Grid, Explain Plan, Script Output, and DBMS_Output
Moving Into the Schema Browser
There is a tremendous amount of information Oracle has to share with the Toad user. We can turn most of it off very quickly!
- Schema List – use the Session > Oracle User List dialog to hide schemas you don’t support or interact with, makes the dropdowns a LOT more navigable
- Use the DropDown view for the objects – most amount of real estate.
- Turn off support of the Object types you don’t work with
- Turn off the right-hand-side tabs for each object you don’t work with
- Filter, filter, filter!
Remember, if there’s something in Toad you do not like, you can turn it off!
If you decide you made a mistake, and you want to get it back, you can always reset your Toad to look like it did on day one.
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