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My Inaugural Blog |
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DougWilliams
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10/31/2008 11:06 AM
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Welcome to my inaugural blog on Toad World. I’m a part of the Toad business here at Quest. I’m going to be focusing on more of the business aspects of DB2 and Oracle database management, although I’m sure I’ll stray every so often into my techie roots. My goal is hopefully to give you a little something to think about , and I welcome your feedback!
I’ll focus primarily on DB2, as ...
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Play games to become a better developer! |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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10/28/2008 9:23 AM
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Part 2: The Game of Mastermind
Software development is one heck of a serious job. It turns out, however, that there are several games you can play to improve the quality of code you write. This is the second of two blog entries that introduce you to two of my favorite brain development and training games:
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Inside the application data directory |
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Mauritz
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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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Mauritz
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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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Mauritz
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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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Reducing startup time |
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Mauritz
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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 version numbers explained |
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Mauritz
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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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