• What is the Toad for Oracle License Key, Site Message and Authorization Key?

    Sometimes authorizing a product can be confusing with the terms that are used.

    As with many Quest products, there is a two-step authorization process.

    A license key or Authorization key will need to be inputted; along with its Site Message string.

    These…

  • Toad Turnpike: Real Stories from the Road

    Off-roading, Maps, and Nine Gray Hairs

    We all tend to spend most of our time on the “turnpike” of a product’s feature set: you know, the “power” set of its features that get us to many of our endpoint destinations within the product as productively as…

  • Using Toad to generate data for SharePlex replication

    When installing SharePlex one of the things you need to do is verify the installation is working by using the SharePlex test tables before using your own tables. 

    There are a couple of scripts you can run to do this but in the video I recorded I show you…

  • Toad for Oracle's Multifunctional and powerful connection window

    Connecting.
    We do it every day.
    Person to person – and on a network level, database client to database platform.

    Toad for Oracle’s legacy has always been about increasing performance, configuration, and internal self-help in solving technical…

  • Toad Turnpike: Real Stories from the Road

    Friends in High Places

    I’m starting a blog series about our Toad solution family, and how it’s changed lives for almost 20 years now.  Sometimes a vendor’s product does something extraordinary for its customers.  The stories you read…

  • Accurately Predict the Lifetime of your Database Hardware

    I’m sure as DBAs we’ve all been there; your IT manager comes to you saying the warranty is expiring on the production database server and asks “do we extend or replace the server”? Both choices lead to further questions. If you decide to extend the warranty…

  • Our Products Aren’t Good; They’re *#$#$@ Great!

    We're awesome

    Dollar Shave Club’s founder Michael Dubin said something like that in his first viral video about his company, and it completely changed the razor market. For a few bucks a month, his company would ship razors and blades directly to your home once a…