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 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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Run Toad off a USB Flash Drive
Bert Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:32 PM
Lot’s of people have asked “How can I setup Toad to run off a flash drive?” The reason for this question varies in nature and intent by requestor – but the general concept is that some users need the ability to carry Toad with them. Some are contractors who must use whatever computer and/or desk is open that day. Some are database developers who must travel around their company to perform or assist with various ...
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Speeding-Up Oracle on Your Notebook PC
Bert Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:29 AM
Just a quick blog this week – some relatively easy suggestions on how to make Oracle run as fast as possible on minimal computer setups such as a notebook PC. My goal is simply to squeeze as much performance blood from the Oracle turnip as possible when deployed on limited capacity equipment. The suggestions below should work for most operating systems, including Windows, Mac-OS and Linux – simply interpret and ...
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Just Make Oracle Go Faster
Bert Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:25 AM
Catchy title – huh? But don’t laugh, in today’s hectic world many database professionals (whether DBA’s or developers – and sometimes even end users) just wish that the Oracle database would go faster. That may seem self evident – but let’s just accept that premise for now. So what does this mean for Toad users?
 
Toad offers numerous database monitoring, ...
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Optimizing SQL Part 3– Generating more SQL alternatives for simple SQL statements
RichardTo Thursday, November 06, 2008 8:10 AM

Written by Rene Woody

This blog is a continuation of a series about the SQL optimization process in the Batch Optimizer and the Tuning Lab modules of Quest SQL Optimize ...

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Getting to know the Query Builder in Toad for Data Analysis
dnorwood 11/5/2008 3:04 PM
Query Builder is the heart and soul of Toad for Data Analysis. We've spent lots of time and effort working to make it very useful and intuitive. Recently, in version 2.0 of Toad for Data Analysis, we introduced a few new features including reverse engineering SQL to a Query Builder model, creation of DDL scripts and better connection awareness. The linked doc is a very nice write up that Shawn Pickett (Senior Developer) and Alan Bala (Development Team Lead) have put together.
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Toad Makes DB Waits Easy
Bert Wednesday, November 05, 2008 7:19 AM
I’ve always been a huge fan of Cary Millsap’s “Method-R” technique for Optimizing Oracle Performance via detailed analysis of all of the business proc ...
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Unicode Migration
Johannes 11/3/2008 9:24 AM
Migrating to a database that supports Unicode is a challenge. You are safe if you are currently using  US7ASCII for you Oracle database because Oracle provides a mechanism with ALTER DATABASE SET CHARACTERSET UTF8 which allows you by just bouncing the database to switch to this new character set. But what if you are currently on a different character set? In Europe we have a bunch of WE8 (Western Europ ...
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Congratulations to the newest Oracle Magazine PL/SQL Developer of the Year!
StevenFeuersteinTW 11/3/2008 8:03 AM
As I travel certain parts of the globe doing presentations on PL/SQL, I meet many extremely talented PL/SQL programmers – people who meet the most complex challenges you can imagine with a deft combination of intense creativity, hard work, and of course Oracle PL/SQL.

Oracle Magazine names only one as the PL/SQL Developer of the Year at each Oracle Open World, and this year the award was g ...

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Help from users
DougWilliams 11/3/2008 6:56 AM

Warsaw to London and then London to Frankfurt. And then a train up to Cologne. Welcome to business travel in the world of code shares! I’m in the first leg of that journey right now, and so I thought I’d take a few minutes to jot down some thoughts while there’s no internet connection available (nor allowed, thankfully). Sometimes not having access to email is a good thing.

One of ...

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My Inaugural Blog
DougWilliams 10/31/2008 11:06 AM

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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