Mark,

I could go on and on about the features but suffice it to say that TOAD was
a well thought out product with all the features to get a novice going and
plenty of good stuff for the seasoned veteran as well.

Timothy J Cummings
Cummings Consulting
Cincinnati, OH
513-576-1182


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Wonsil [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:42 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] DB nightmares

Tim writes:
> If you are talking about MSQRY32.EXE then there is no comparison.  If
> you are looking for a point and click tool for oracle databases to do
> almost any task (create/alter tables, tablespaces, procedures, views,
> synonyms, indexes, grants, partitions, constraints ...)  TOAD does a
> really good job.

While I have never used TOAD, I was looking for a utility to dump Oracle
datasets into delimited text files and you can't do that generically with
any standard Oracle utility.  (SQL*Plus but it's a pain...)  I ended up
writing a JDBC tool but a lot of folks recommended TOAD to do the job.

Mark W.

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