Chase Toad for Oracle, for Oracle Professional, for Oracle Xpert, for Oracle Suite database software User manual

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Personal TOAD Configuration
Mark Moran
Chase Home Equity
Information Solutions Group
July 20th, 2005
What is TOAD?
• TOAD Stands for Tool for Oracle Application
Development
• With version 8.5 – the name has changed to Toad
for Oracle as Quest software is also starting to
make a Toad application for other databases.
• Designed to aid in the development and
management of application on oracle.
• Current Release version is 8.5.3.2
Toad Versions
Toad for Oracle
• Toad for Oracle Provides the foundation and basic
tools for Oracle professionals to create and execute
queries and build and manage database objects. This
includes XML editing, data browsing, data compare,
SQL recall, code snippets, and code formatting. This
edition also lets you plug into Toad's added utilities.
Toad Versions
Toad for Oracle Professional
• Includes all of Toad for Oracle, PLUS
• This edition includes PL/SQL Debugger, Script
Debugger for SQL*Plus scripts, CodeXpert, and
integrated PL/SQL Knowledge Xpert. It also includes
Data Pump for Oracle 10g.
Toad Versions
Toad for Oracle Xpert
• Includes all of Toad for Oracle Professional, PLUS:
• This edition includes the SQL Tuning Module and
SQL Scanning.
Toad Versions
Toad for Oracle Suite
• An entire application lifecycle package in one.
• Includes all features of Toad for Oracle Xpert plus a
variety of development tools.
• This edition includes Quest DBA Module, Database
Administration Knowledge Xpert, DataFactory&reg;
Developer Edition, Benchmark Factory&reg; for Oracle,
and QDesigner™ PhysicalArchitect for creating and
reverse engineering accurate physical data models.
Get the most out of TOAD!
• TOAD has over 35 different customizations
screens and hidden gems that make it a great tool
once you know how to navigate the application
and establish your personalized settings.
• With each new release of TOAD, Quest has made
it easier to setup the application and the upgrades
remember your current settings.
The Options Setting in TOAD
The Options Button –
Also available from the
View Menu
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Data Grids - Data
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Data Grids - Data
Highlights:
• Confirm data deletions from grids
• Popup memo editor on double-click
• Trim string data in CHAR and NCHAR fields
• Choose date &amp; time display format
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Data Grids - Visual
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Data Grids - Visual
Highlights:
• This page allows you to define the look and feel of the data
grids used within TOAD. There are a lot of options and
features built into the Dev Express grid component.
• One of the best features, I think, is the excel style filtering.
• Most of the options on this page I have left to the default
settings. However, the one that I did change was that I like to
know if my fields are null or not. So I turn on the display of
null columns as yellow.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Data Types
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Data Types
Highlights:
• This page allows you to modify the list of field types that you
would use on a day to day basis throughout the TOAD
application.
• I normally check/uncheck the Oracle 9i timestamps when I
need them.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
DBA
The Options Dialog in TOAD
DBA
Highlights:
• Today, I leave this page with the default settings.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Editors - General
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Editors - General
Highlights:
• Highlight table &amp; procedure names with syntax highlighting
• I configure TOAD to use a custom external editor
• Treat underscore character as part of object names
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Editors – Toad Insight
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Editors – Toad Insight
Highlights:
• Today, I leave this page with the default settings.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Email Settings
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Email Settings
Highlights:
Set email options globally for the various Toad tools and
managers that allow email notification from this options page.
These tools and managers include:
Instance Manager
Database Health Check
Database Monitor
Rebuild Multiple Indexes
Compare Schemas
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Executables
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Executables
Highlights:
TOAD provides a wizard based approach in using the Oracle Client’s command line
based utilities. The files listed below are normally found in your Oracle Client’s bin
directory. To be able to use the wizards within TOAD, it must know the location of
the files to use. The available executables are:
SQL*Plus, SQL*Loader,
Import (used in the Import Utility Wizard),
Export (used in the Export Utility Wizard),
TKProf, TNS Ping (used in the Database Monitor window),
Ping (used in the Database Monitor window), Wrap, and
Export Pump 10g &amp; Import Pump 10g
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Files
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Files
Highlights:
Nearly all - but not all - of the File Open and File Save dialog windows displayed
through Toad are for the purpose of manipulating SQL files. The grid dialog box
lets you customize the file extensions that display in the system dialog box
windows. To add another filter, begin typing in a blank row. To delete a filter,
highlight the text and press the &lt;DELETE&gt; key.
•Here are the default filters:
File Type
Filter
SQL
*.sql
Text Files
*.txt
All Files
*.*
The Options Dialog in TOAD
General
The Options Dialog in TOAD
General
Highlights:
• Allow multiple copies of TOAD to be open
• Confirm before closing TOAD
• Show splash screen at startup
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Instance Manager
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Instance Manager
Highlights:
Use the Instance Manager options to select which servers to
poll, and which servers should alert you when they go down.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Monitors - Database
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Monitors - Database
Highlights:
• Today, I leave this page with the default settings.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Monitors - Unix
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Monitors - Unix
Highlights:
• Today, I leave this page with the default settings.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Network Utilities
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Network Utilities
Highlights:
• Allows you to set the look and feel of the telenet session font.
• Allows you to manage your ftp connection setting that TOAD
remembers for you after making a successful connection.
• The Network Utilities dialog allows you to make a telenet,
ftp, Rexec, Ping, TNSPing, IP Address trace, and ssh
connections.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Oracle - General
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Oracle - General
Highlights:
• Save passwords for all Oracle connections. This one is a personal
preference. You either do or you don’t.
• Explain Plan – Set your schema name and table name if you wish to use
this feature.
• Execute queries in threads (Creates a separate session). This is handy and
can also be a gotcha item. Watch out for this one when using temporary
tables. When checked, Toad will create a separate session specifically to
execute queries. A new session will be created for each query being run
from the SQL Editor, Schema Browser, or Object Search window. The
default is checked.
• Commit after every statement – This one is another personal choice.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Oracle – Optimizer Hints
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Oracle – Optimizer Hints
Highlights:
• Today, I leave this page with the default settings.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Parser Scripts
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Parser Scripts
Highlights:
TOAD provides you the ability to have syntax highlighting for
any type of file that you would like. They provide some
default syntax layouts and have added the ability for you to
manage these files and add your own. The selected editor
parser files will determine which languages will be supported
for syntax highlighting and distinct editor settings.
•The grid displays the language supported and then the
pathname of the parser script file.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Procedure Editor - General
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Procedure Editor - General
Highlights:
• Only show one Procedure Editor per database connection
• Use multi-line tabs in the editor
• Notification on when compile is complete
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Procedure Editor - Debugging
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Procedure Editor - Debugging
Highlights:
• Today, I leave this page with the default settings.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Procedure Editor – File Splitting
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Procedure Editor – File Splitting
Highlights:
File splitting was designed to accommodate users with
multiple PL/SQL objects in a single file. This feature lets you
load multiple objects from one file and save package specs and
bodies to one file.
•When a file is loaded, the procedure editor checks to see
whether more than one PL/SQL object is created in the file. If
so, the procedure editor takes action depending upon which of
the options listed below is set.
•The default is Prompt to split files.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Procedure Editor – Proc Templates
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Procedure Editor – Proc Templates
Highlights:
TOAD provides you with the ability to create your own code
templates for use within the Procedure Editor. When creating
new objects (functions, procedures, packages, triggers, types,
etc.), TOAD allows you to choose what the template to use to
create the selected object type. This provides you with the
ability to change the templates to your own coding style.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Schema Browser - Data
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Schema Browser - Data
Highlights:
• Only show one Schema Browser per database connection
• Limit grid fetch
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Schema Browser - Visual
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Schema Browser - Visual
Highlights:
• Sort package procedures alphabetically
• Browser Style – I prefer a multi-lined tabbed approach. For
those items that you do not use often or ever, you can
customize it to not display those tabs.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Schema Browser – Types Tab
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Schema Browser – Types Tab
Highlights:
• Today, I leave this page with the default settings.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Script Defaults
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Script Defaults
Highlights:
• Today, I leave this page with the default settings.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
SQL Editor
The Options Dialog in TOAD
SQL Editor
Highlights:
• Processing statement in threads
• # of SQL Statements to store – Default 100 – Max 999
• Store SQL Statements before execution
• Make Code Statements – Development Environment
• Only show one SQL Editor Window per connection - unchecked
The Options Dialog in TOAD
SQL Modeler - General
The Options Dialog in TOAD
SQL Modeler - General
Highlights:
• Today, I leave this page with the default settings.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
SQL Modeler - Functions
The Options Dialog in TOAD
SQL Modeler - Functions
Highlights:
• Today, I leave this page with the default settings.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
StartUp
The Options Dialog in TOAD
StartUp
Play Toad Wave File – Cute the first time, annoying after that.
Show login window – Allows you to determine if the login box displays.
Show Splash Screen – Normally, I turn this off. One less item to look at.
Allow multiple copies of TOAD to be opened – I set this to checked.
File To AutoLoad on startup – Allows a user to identify a file that will
automatically be loaded into the first SQL Editor window that appears after a
database Login. Click to choose a file.
File to AutoExecute on new connections - This lets you set application info upon
startup. The selected script file will execute after each new connection and the
output displays after the normal &quot;do you want to see output&quot; prompt.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Team Coding
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Team Coding
Highlights:
• The Team Coding page allows you to connect and use an
external source code repository control system. This option
also requires the installation of the TOAD server side objects
installation.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Toolbar/Menus
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Toolbar/Menus
Configurations
Toad comes with several options for configuring your toolbars. These are
configurations to the toolbars and menu bars only. All of the commands for the
version you have purchased are available for you to add to them. These
configurations merely provide a convenient starting place for different roles.
User default, Toad default (all items), Developer, Business Analyst, DBA (full menus)
Toad also allows you to define the look and feel for the tool bars as well if they are
moveable or docked and locked.
For pinned windows, you have the ability to select if they roll out from the side or
not as well on how fast they slide.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Windows
The Options Dialog in TOAD
Windows
The windows options let you specify which settings Toad
should save for each major window. You can check individual
windows to:
• Save Size
• Save Position
• Auto open upon starting Toad
Bring window to front
If you have several windows selected for auto open, you can
choose which of them you want to be active on opening Toad.
The Options Dialog in TOAD
TOAD Help System
The Options Dialog in TOAD
TOAD Help System
Highlights:
• The Help System is very comprehensive and provides you
with an overview of each Options page as well.
The Editor Options Dialog in TOAD
The Editor Options Dialog in TOAD
When displaying a SQL Editor or Procedure Editor, from the Edit menu,
select Editor Options or right-click and select Editor Options.
You can set Printing options, Display options, Control options, General
options, Syntax Highlighting options, Key Assignments, Auto Replace
substitutions, and Code Templates in this dialog box.
The editor options are stored in [Language]KEYS.BIN and
[Language]OPTS.TXT files in the Toad\TEMPS folder, where [Language]
is the language of the file. Language could be HTML, INI, JAVA, PLSQL,
or TEXT. Do NOT attempt to edit these files.
Questions on TOAD?
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Key features

Database management
Query creation and execution
Database object management
SQL tuning and optimization
PL/SQL debugging
Code completion and formatting
Data browsing and comparison
Report generation
Graphical schema design
Team coding support

Frequently asked questions

There are four main versions: Toad for Oracle, Toad for Oracle Professional, Toad for Oracle Xpert, and Toad for Oracle Suite, each offering increasing functionality and features.

The Options dialog allows you to customize a wide range of settings, such as data grid appearance, editor preferences, email notifications, and more, to tailor Toad to your individual needs.

The Instance Manager lets you monitor and configure Oracle instances, including setting alerts when instances go down.

The Schema Browser provides a hierarchical view of database objects, allowing you to browse tables, views, packages, procedures, and other objects.

The SQL Modeler helps you design and create SQL statements for different database objects, including tables, views, and procedures.