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Toad and Database Commentaries |
Toad World blogs are a mix of insightful how-tos from Quest experts as well as their commentary on experiences with new database technologies.
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Still Testing Your PL/SQL Manually? STOP-RIGHT-NOW. |
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JeffSmith
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Monday, June 30, 2008 7:51 AM
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Anyone who develops, supports, or uses PL/SQL at some level also tests the PL/SQL. It may not be a formal testing environment, but there is a time where you will probably ask yourself, “Does this program actually do what it is supposed to?” I think this is something we can all relate to as computer users.
This type of testing ...
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Toad and Oracle Licensing – What’s the Story ? |
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JohnPocknell
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:28 AM
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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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When Prevention Fails, What’s Next? |
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JohnWeathington
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
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Okay, we’ve already learned the prevention is the best medicine. But what do we do when we cannot put preventive controls in place? This article answers that question and more, with more examples and data architecture considerations.
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Making Toad Do What You Want |
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Bert
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:55 AM
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A lot of times people will ask Quest tech support or via our Yahoo discussion groups how to make the editor run SQL commands and do stuff more like SQL*Plus or how to better control the output look and feel (i.e. behavior). Along those lines and another very popular question is where one can set an option in Toad for the editor to do something specific (e.g. turn off feedback, etc) – because they have ...
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Always Bulk Collect |
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StevenFeuersteinTW
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6/23/2008 7:34 AM
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You learn something new every day, right? Well, I certainly do (more or less). Even about PL/SQL, about which I am sure many people think I already know everything. Far from it.
In fact, I learned just last week from the PL/SQL Product Manager, Bryn Llewellyn, that his recommendation regarding cursor FOR loops and bulk collect is different fro ...
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Writing Better Queries Starts With Understanding |
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dnorwood
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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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ODTUG Post Mortem |
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Bert
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 5:22 AM
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There are quite a few blogs out there about what happened or what’s new from this week’s ODTUG conference in New Orleans. So rather than restate what many others are reporting, I thought I’d try a slightly different approach – to instead report more on what was noticeably absent or different this year. J
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Automated Process Auditing |
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JohnWeathington
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
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In this article, we discuss the importance of understanding your “Really As-Is” process, and the big mistake companies make when building process documents. Then, we explore a data architecture for continuously auditing your process in an automated fashion.
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Does a German Toad blog make sense? |
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ToadWorldAdmin
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6/18/2008 10:39 AM
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Aufgrund der großen Anzahl Toad Anwender im deutschsprachigen Raum stellt sich die Frage, ob ein deutscher Toad Blog sinnvoll ist. Wir denken hier zum einen an Themen, die uns im Umfeld Internationalisierung interessieren aber auch an technische Detailfragen, die z.B. übersetzt und so einer größeren Benutzergruppe verfügbar gemacht werd ...
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