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Toad for SQL Server

Easily Manage More SQL Server Databases and Automate Repetitive Tasks

Toad for SQL Server complements Microsoft’s toolset and maximizes productivity, empowering users to proactively manage large numbers of databases. It streamlines and simplifies change management, automates repetitive tasks, accelerates issue resolution, and helps ensure the highest levels of code quality, performance, and maintainability. Plus, it significantly improves the SQL Server learning experience. (Learn More)

Toad for SQL Server is available in three editions. 

Features

Compare and synchronize—Lets you compare and synchronize servers, schemas, and data to track change or easily migrate a database between production test and development environments

Group execute—Executes scripts and code snippets against multiple servers and instances

Log Reader management—Rolls back transactions in the transaction log without the need to restore from a backup

SQL optimization—Enables performance tuning with automated SQL scan, optimization, index optimization, and benchmarking; no other tool offers the level of performance tuning that is available in Toad Xpert

T-SQL editing—Toad makes SQL coding  easy with advanced code complete, code snippets, and SQL recall; this reduces the T-SQL learning curve, introduces consistency, and helps deliver high-quality code

SQL Server job manager—Provides a simple visual display of all running jobs on multiple databases against a calendar backdrop, making it easy to avoid resource contention caused by job conflicts

Report generation and documentation—Lets you create customized reports for administration and development and export those reports in flexible formats including .xls, XML, .doc and .pdf

Object search—Allows you to search for text in database objects, e.g., column names and SQL code and helps you rapidly locate code to quickly assess the impact of renaming or code changes

Free high-quality performance health checks—Benchmarks against average performance across the community

Project management—Lets you save and reuse powerful features for object management, SQL, and T-SQL coding

Security management—Builds and executes security-related scripts against multiple servers to create, manage, and even replicate security for all users

Query builder—Helps you access key data quickly; includes built-in report and pivot functionality, which allows for in-place analysis and single-click export to an Excel instance, so DBAs and analysts can easily export to their favorite tools

Complete suite—Provides a comprehensive, end-to-end toolset, from development through production administration, as well as integration with Spotlight® for performance diagnostics (Learn More)

Consistent toolset across database platforms—Minimizes the learning curve across multiple platforms with a similar look and feel while providing deep functional expertise for the nuances of each platform (Learn More)

 

Sys Reqs

Toad for SQL Server System Requirements

Platform

600 MHz minimum, 1 GHz recommended

Memory

512 MB of RAM minimum, 1 GB recommended

Note: The memory required may vary based on the following:

  • Applications that are running on your system when using Toad for SQL Server
  • Size and complexity of the database
  • Amount of database activity
  • Number of concurrent users accessing the database

Hard Disk Space

104 MB to run Toad for SQL Server

Note: The disk space required may vary based on the edition of Toad selected for installation.

Operating System

Windows Server 2003

Windows XP Professional (32-bit or 64-bit)

Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit)

Windows Server 2008 (32-bit or 64-bit)

Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)

Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

Important: Toad uses the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) when opening a SQL file to get Full-Text Search status, but DTC is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7. If you are using either operating system, ensure that Network DTC access is enabled on the Toad client. See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753510(WS.10).aspx for more information about enabling DTC access.

.NET Framework

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0

Note: The following conditions apply:

  • If you have the .NET Framework 4.0 installed, you must still install the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.
  • The .NET Framework Client Profile is not supported.
  • To run Toad for SQL Server, the .NET security policy must be set to unrestricted.

Additional Requirements

Web Browser

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later

Copy/Move Database Wizard

The SQL Server Backward Compatibility package is required to use the Copy/Move Database wizard.

Log Reader

The Log Reader requires version 8.0 DLL files in the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package. If these files do not exist on the client, you will need to install them to use some functionality in the Log Reader.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=200B2FD9-AE1A-4A14-984D-389C36F85647&displaylang=en

Server Requirements

Before installing Toad, ensure that your server meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:

Operating System

Windows Server 2000 Service Pack 4 or later

Windows 2000 Professional Edition Service Pack 4 or later

Windows XP (32-bit with Service Pack 2 or later and 64-bit)

Windows Server 2003 (32-bit or 64-bit) Service Pack 1 or later

Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit)

Windows Server 2008 (32-bit or 64-bit)

Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)

Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

Database Server

SQL Server 2000 (Service Pack 3 or later)

SQL Server 2005 (Service Pack 2 or later) and SQL Server 2005 Express

SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Express

SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2 Express

SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012 Express

Note: SQL Server Compact Edition is not supported.

Cloud Database Service

SQL Azure

Note: To connect to SQL Azure, you must have read access to the master database and VIEW DEFINITION grant on the databases you want to work with.

.NET Framework

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0

Virtualization Support

Application Virtualization

Limited testing has been performed for Citrix XenApp 5.0 support on Windows Server 2003.

Limited testing has been performed for Citrix support on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Server (Service Pack 2) using the MetaFrame Presentation Server 5.0 and Citrix Presentation Server Clients 10.2.

Desktop Virtualization (VDI)

Toad has been tested with Quest vWorkspace 7.0 running Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit.

Note: Toad may work in virtualization environments other than the ones in which it was tested.

Docs

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