We’re throwing you a lifesaver – catch onto the more affordable OEM alternative. Help! I can’t afford Diagnostics and Tuning packs for performance monitoring with Oracle® Enterprise Manager. Really? You mean you’re not cu...

While I am here to officially announce the availability of the new Stat release (6.0), it seems that I should first introduce myself as the new Product Manager for Stat.  I’m pleased to be joining this highly qualified team with a long tra...

We’re happy to announce a new Toad World section supporting PostgreSQL and sponsored by EDBPostgres. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen a surge in the adoption of open source relational database platforms. MySQL and Postgres databa...

  My feet hurt. I’m tired of wandering the floor. Who’s got the best giveaways and Oracle expertise at Collaborate 2017? We don’t want to toot our own horn, but…toot, toot! We’re talking Apple watch giveaways on t...

We need your help. We know you are the experts using our products or how you might want to use our products. Our most valuable data comes from you. When you participate in our research studies, you are talking to people who have direct influence...

Recently we had a customer reach out to us asking about using the import feature of Toad Data Point. They started out asking about importing an Excel spreadsheet.  We were able to show them how they could do that and even limit the number of row...

A customer recently had the need to get a count of the number of SQL Server instances that Spotlight on SQL Server is deployed to. There are several ways to do this, depending on requirements and how fancy you'd like to get. The simplest way is ...

First and foremost, we always recommend testing our products in a lab environment. Test in production at your own risk. We understand you want to get real data and it makes sense but testing in production comes with risks. Am I saying you should never…

Outsourcing is a double edge sword. It saves companies money but often times sacrifices quality. I was working with a software company that moved half of their database development work overseas. The code they would get back was inefficient at b...

“Sorry, you're just not my type.” The one sentence, no one ever wants to hear, after the first date with someone you thought you had a made a great connection with. The sudden empty feeling in your stomach and the emotional letdown from w...

The data that we get in Foglight Performance Investigator for SQL Server and Oracle is shown on the default dashboards to provide actionable insights. But sometimes you want to get a bit more granular. There was a report in the deprecated Performance…

"Eu gasto muito tempo pesquisando bancos de dados, adicionando fórmulas e exportando para planilhas. Minha resolução de Ano Novo é minimizar minha preparação de dados e maximizar meu tempo e esforço na...