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Author:	JohnPocknell	Created:	Monday, March 12, 2007 2:58 PM
Providing useful “how to” and “tips and tricks” covering topics such as database development best practices, Toad for Oracle and Toad Data Modeler.

Toad and Oracle Licensing – What’s the Story ?
JohnPocknell	Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:28 AM

Introduction Toad for Oracle may use Oracle database Options (RAC, Partitioning, Spatial, etc) and Enterprise Management Packs (Tuning, Diagnostics, etc) depending on various factors (see full article). Such Toad features include (but not limited to) ADDM/AWR Reports, AWR Browser and ASM M ...

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What’s Coming in Toad for Oracle 9.6? (Part 3)
JohnPocknell	Monday, March 17, 2008 7:52 AM

It’s almost that time again as another exciting new release of Toad draws closer ! We’ve decided that, rather than let you wait until this release of Toad before you see what’s new, we’ll give you a little fore-taste now ! The emphasis on this release is to simultaneously conti ...

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What’s Coming in Toad for Oracle 9.6? (Part 2)
JohnPocknell	Friday, March 07, 2008 12:10 PM

It’s almost that time again as another exciting new release of Toad draws closer ! We’ve decided that, rather than let you wait until this release of Toad before you see what’s new, we’ll give you a little fore-taste now! The emphasis on this release is to ...

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What’s Coming in Toad for Oracle 9.6 ? (Part 1)
JohnPocknell	Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:23 PM

It’s almost that time again as another exciting new release of Toad draws closer ! We’ve decided that, rather than let you wait until this release of Toad before you see what’s new, we’ll give you a little fore-taste now ! The emphasis on this release is ...

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Simplifying Database Administration – Part 1
JohnPocknell	Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:57 PM

Problem Resolution
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It’s A Dirty Job – But Someone’s Got To Do It !
JohnPocknell	Monday, October 01, 2007 11:32 AM

There’s no doubt about it - being a DBA is not easy.
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What’s Coming in Toad 9.1 - Part 2: Toad Group Policy Manager
JohnPocknell	Monday, June 18, 2007 8:30 AM

In Part 2 of this Blog, I want to introduce you to perhaps the most exciting feature of this release, the Toad Group Policy Manager – and it gives me particular pleasure to introduce this to you now as Toad for Oracle 9.1 is released.

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What’s Coming in Toad 9.1 - Part 1: Action Recall
JohnPocknell	Friday, May 25, 2007 11:42 AM

We decided that, rather than let you wait until the next release of Toad before you see what’s new, we’ll give you a little fore-taste now! For those of you w ...

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Toad for Oracle 9.0 - How do I Debug PL/SQL Combined into a Single File?
JohnPocknell	Tuesday, April 24, 2007 1:24 PM

In this short blog, I want to cover a topic which quite a few customers have asked me about over the years, and that is where they need to debug a Package where the Package Specification and Package Body is stored on their file system as a combined file.

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Toad for Oracle 9.0 - How do I Detect Performance Bottlenecks in my PL/SQL Code?
JohnPocknell	Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:54 AM

In this blog, I want to introduce you to a little known feature in Toad for Oracle called the PL/SQL Profiler. Believe it or not, the profiler has been in Toad since September 1999 (Version 6)!

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