Release InformationToad® for OracleA new release of Toad for Oracle is now available. For a full list of new features and bug fixes, please see the release notes.
Toad for Oracle Version 10 provides a new frontier in productivity for DBAs, developers and analysts by offering enhancements in usability, automation, education and flexibility.
Current Release is Toad for Oracle 10.1 R2
New Features in Toad for Oracle 10.1
- Toad Data Modeler - Added to all editions of Toad for Oracle at no cost – Toad Data Modeler will continue to be available as a stand-alone product
- Predictive Diagnostics in Toad DBA Suite for Oracle - Only product on the market that provides this – also includes more Spotlight on Oracle capabilities, including Spotlight on Windows and Unix
- Quest Knowledge Bases - Available Online, including Knowledge Xpert for PL/SQL and Knowledge Xpert for Oracle Administration – formerly available through installation within Toad
- Support for Oracle 11gR2
- Server support for Windows 7 and 2008, including 64-bit
New Features in Toad for Oracle 10.0
All Editions - New ER Diagrammer - A completely new look‐and‐feel interface provides much improved visual display and reporting capabilities to ensure developers gain a clearer understanding of the schema environment. These include zoom, pan, loupe, auto‐layout, export to graphic as well as HTML reporting that can be distributed by email. Workspaces allow complex schemas to be sub‐divided into manageable groups and Categories allows groups of objects to be color‐coded.
- Automation Designer - Users can automate tasks in Toad and save many of their routine tasks in Toad for reuse, scheduling and sharing by providing the ability to multi‐execute tasks against multiple database connections for even higher productivity.
- Unicode Support - Toad 10 supports Unicode to ensure users worldwide can fully benefit from using Toad.
- Multiple Script Execution Across Multiple Databases - Script Manager allows DBAs to use their own or Toad‐supplied scripts and execute them against multiple database connections at the same time.
- New Data Grids - Provides users with much more flexibility and productivity, including multi-column grouping and simpler multi-selection of rows and columns.
- Integrated Toad World Searching - Make the most out of your Toad investment by integrating with educational resources, including Toad World, Knowledge Xpert and Toad’s Help so you can search and learn as you go.
Toad for Oracle Professional Edition, Toad for Oracle Xpert Edition, Toad Development Suite and Toad DBA Suite: - Advanced Data Generator - In addition to generating random data, Toad 10 enables the generation of everyday data such as company names, addresses, zip codes, etc for more realistic debugging and testing. For very high data loads, this operation can be executed on the server for improved performance.
Toad DBA Suite for Oracle and Toad DB Admin Module: - New Rules in Health Check - Database Health Check now offers more than 120 database analysis checks across new groups such as Configuration, Performance and Storage for even deeper assessment of potential problems.
DBA Suite- Spotight on Oracle 7.0 Integration - Toad's Database Monitor can now be used to trigger alerts on dynamic database performance issues that can be diagnosed using Spotlight.
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New Features in Toad for Oracle 9.7:
All Editions: - Getting-started Videos – Useful video clips show the “Top Things You Should Know” for developers and DBAs – videos reduce the Toad learning curve and allow you to take advantage of the most useful features
- Action Recall Enhancements – Save the steps you take in Toad – like a macro – and replay or schedule to run whenever you want, or even distribute to others; new AppDesigner window makes it much easier to create an automation workflow based on multiple saved actions to generate an entire process
- Parser Enhancements – Toad 9.7 now supports full parsing of Oracle 11g
- Toad for Data Analysts – included for free with all licensed copies of Toad for Oracle
Toad for Oracle Professional Edition, Toad for Oracle Xpert Edition, Toad Development Suite and Toad DBA Suite:- Data Generation – Allows you to easily create multiple rows of data, for one or more Oracle tables for development and test environments, where it is not possible to obtain data from production
- Code Xpert Enhancements – A “Top 20” rule list helps define which Code Xpert rules to run when you want to do a quick code quality check – compiled by Quest experts: Steven Feuerstein and Bert Scalzo – its dashboard reports can be e-mailed to others in the business
Toad DBA Suite for Oracle and Toad DB Admin Module:- Database Browser Enhancements – As an extension to Database Browser enhancements in Toad for Oracle 9.6 further improvements make the Database Browser the main console for DBAs to expose many common DBA tasks without having to navigate Toad menus
- StatsPack and AWR Advisories – Offer useful insight into potential performance and configuration issues in your database – advisories indicate specific problems and provide simple advice to be taken to correct the problem
- Schema Compare and Sync Enhancements – Now more powerful through the use of very efficient schema “snapshots” that reduce the time it takes to perform a complex compare down to seconds
- Trace File Browser – Presents Oracle trace file information in a simpler way to help you interpret them and pinpoint the root cause of a performance-related problem (Trace files can be loaded into Benchmark Factory for workload replay testing – see below)
- RMAN Script Templates – Provides basic out-of-the-box backup scripts so you can simply select them from the Database Browser, open in the Editor Window and execute on the database server – eliminating the time-consuming and error-prone process of manually creating scripts
Toad Development Suite for Oracle and Toad DBA Suite for Oracle: - Benchmark Factory Integration – Oracle Trace Files can now be “pushed” to Benchmark Factory in order to initiate a workload replay test – can be performed from the Trace File Browser or TKProf Interface windows
Client Requirements:- Pentium PC or higher
- 512 MB RAM (1GB recommended)
- 75 MB disk space/100 MB for Xpert Edition
- Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 and Windows 7, including 64-bit
- VGA monitor with display capabilities of at least 1024 x 768 resolution
- Oracle SQL Net, Net 8 (32-bit only) Net 9, Net 10, Net 11 or Instant Client
Server Requirements:- Oracle versions 8.0.6; 8.1.7; 9i; 9iR2; 10gR1, 10gR2, 11gR1 and 11gR2
- Any hardware platform
Additional Requirements for different modules| Feature/Module | Additional Requirements | Debugger | For PL/SQL debugging:
Oracle Probe v2.0 or higher SYS.DBMS_DEBUG package. For Java debugging:
DBMS_DEBUG_JDWP package. | Quest DBA Module | Same as Toad Requirements. | Knowledge Xpert | 5 MB of disk space. | SQL Optimizer | Hardware Requirements: - Computer with Pentium III (Pentium IV recommended) or compatible processor.
- 150MB disk space.
Software requirements: - Windows XP Professional SP1 or 2, Windows 2000 Professional SP4 or later, or Windows Server 2003
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- Oracle client software to connect to server(s) – 8.0.6, 8.1.7, 9.2.0, 10.1.0, 10.2 and 11g
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Release Notes - Additional release notes can be found on SupportLink (Quest login needed)
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