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Mauritz |
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Monday, October 20, 2008 11:44 AM |
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Henrik joined Quest in 2004 when he also moved to the USA from Sweden. He brings over 15 years of experience of developing database centric applications and object oriented development. At Quest he is now one of the lead architects of the Toad for SQL Server, Toad for DB2, Toad for MySQL and Toad for Data Analysis products.
Henrik's blog will focus on tips and tricks to get the most out your favorite database tool. It covers all Toads except for Toad for Oracle.
Recent postings on the 'other' Toad products:
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Flow control for your script |
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:16 PM
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Undocumented functionality in TDA, Toad for SqlServer, Toad for DB2 and Toad for MySQL to use advanced flow control when executing scripts.
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Inside the application data directory |
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:28 AM
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If you have ever looked in the Toad data directory you were probably a little bit bewildered about all the stuff in there. This article will try to shed some light on what all the files in there are used for by the Toad application.
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Code completion revealed |
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:44 PM
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From the first version of Toad we have always had some form of code completion (It was originally called Toad insight or something like that) but it has always been a fairly simple affair where you either got a list of columns in select statements or a long list of objects of many different types completely unaffected by the context in which you invoke the code completion. Starting in 4.0 the c ...
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Connection and transaction handling explained |
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Monday, October 20, 2008 12:10 PM
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In an application like Toad connection and transaction handling will invariant become a complicate affair. During the years we have been working on this we have tried to make it as intuitive as possible so that you usually don't have to think about it. However, in some cases you can still run into problems so this post will try to explain how we handle connections and transactions so that you can avoid the pitfalls.
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Toad version numbers explained |
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Monday, October 20, 2008 12:08 PM
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Version numbers between the different components of the different products can be pretty confusing ever for us who work on it. Before 3.0 of the Core (The part of Toad that is shared between the products) each product had it's own release schedule and with that each had it's own release version of this. After release 3.0 we now try to coordinate releases between the different products (They are usually staggered ...
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Reducing startup time |
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Monday, October 20, 2008 12:08 PM
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For the upcoming 4.1 release I have actually been able to spend quite a lot of time to reduce startup time in Toad and hopefully there should be a quite noticeable difference. One of the changes made is to make the initialization multithreaded so the improvement should be even more pronounced if you have more than one CPU core.
There are a couple of other things you can do yourself in both 4 ...
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Toad nomenclature |
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Monday, October 20, 2008 12:06 PM
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We have a bunch of terms referring to different aspects of the Toad application internally and I thought I would share some with you because it's not that uncommon that it slips out in the Yahoo Boards when we talk about it so why not just go through them and explain them.
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Command line reference |
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Monday, October 20, 2008 12:03 PM
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The documentation of what command line options are available on the Toad.exe is not necessarily that well covered in the documentation. True there is rarely any need to specify anything on it unless something goes wrong. I just thought I'd go through what is available.
First of all the format. Toad allows any parameters to be specified regardless of if it knows what they are or not because s ...
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The history of Toad for SQL Server |
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Monday, October 20, 2008 11:55 AM
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I recently took some time to look through the different releases we have made of Toad over the years since we started and just thought I would share it with you guys. I chose the Toad for SQL Server release because that was the one which had made the most releases (For instance
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Starting this blog |
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Monday, October 20, 2008 11:44 AM
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Every once in a while I've been writing Toad stuff on my personal blog and I figured it is time to stop doing that and try to do this blog into something a little bit more useful. Entries in this blog will also be cross posted on the site Toad Wrangling
I will try to write tips and tricks about how to use Toad as I can think of them ...
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