Get more from Toad in our "Ask Toad" webcast series - 2019

Are you struggling with unplanned development cycles due to poor code quality and technical debt? Is your development team using agile or DevOps methodologies? The pressure to cut costs and accelerate development often leaves less time for traditional code reviews—a serious problem that can lead to costly errors. In fact, one study found that code bugs cost $1.1 trillion worldwide in a single year!

But what if you could automatically ensure coding best practices are followed? This would help you reduce risk, avoid the stress and costs of fixing coding errors in production, and save hours of work. In this session, you’ll learn how to leverage the Code Analysis feature in Toad® to improve code quality.

Topics that will be discussed include:

• Customizing, scheduling, and automating code reviews and reports
• Getting real-time feedback to improve your code as you work
• Using Toad to scan for known issues, grade code, measure complexity, and identify rule violations
• Creating your own rules and categories and easily modifying existing Toad rules
• Sharing rule sets with your colleagues to ensure consistency
• Integrating code reviews into a DevOps pipeline

Speakers:

• Mathew Phan, Quest Software
• Jeff Surretsky, Quest Software
  

Are you struggling to tune your SQL statements and PL/SQL code? Are you reliant on your DBAs to assist you and can't get their time? According to Forrester Research, 60 percent of database performance issues can be attributed to poor SQL statement execution.

With the SQL Optimizer for Oracle® functionality in Toad for Oracle, you can automate the SQL optimization process and maximize the performance of your SQL statements. SQL Optimizer for Oracle analyzes, rewrites and evaluates SQL statements located within database objects, files or collections of SQL statements from Oracle's System Global Area (SGA). Once SQL Optimizer identifies problematic SQL statements, it optimizes the SQL and provides replacement code that includes the optimized statement.

Migrating database changes, eventually to production, inherently presents risks: the risk of having missed something, the risk of a mistake in a script – a lot can go wrong. But what if you could avoid those risks using Toad® for Oracle? This would save you time and help you safely deploy database changes.

With the powerful Compare feature in Toad for Oracle, you can automate the process of comparing the structure of your databases, schemas and objects within your Oracle environment, including the data itself. You can interactively see the differences or view a report of these differences. Depending on your use case, you may want to reconcile the differences and synchronize your environments. You can do this interactively, schedule it or even automate the comparison itself. Manually performing these tasks is resource-intensive and potentially risky. See how Toad for Oracle can make you more productive and help you mitigate risk when migrating your database changes.

With the emergence of open source database software solutions, more companies are looking to break free from the grip of high cost database software. But, just as quickly as management sees the savings, data architects and DBAs see the headaches from making this change a reality.

Toad Data Modeler simplifies the task by allowing you to create data models from 16 sources and quickly convert them to your targets. Whether you are a novice or expert, Toad Data Modeler gives you the latitude to explore those free and open source database solutions. Learn how it works in this short session.

Rapid development cycles make it more important than ever to track and document changes to your source code. Many Toad customers are already using a version control system (VCS) without realizing they can integrate it with Toad and have Toad handle the backend processing.

Imagine a power user accidentally updates all the rows in your production table, but no one notices until the next day. What do you do? While database backups and other safeguards are crucial, bad things can still happen to good databases. Is there a recovery method beyond restoring from backup and rolling forward the right transactions? Toad® for Oracle has a little-known feature that allows you to "mine" Oracle’s redo logs.

In this session, discover how this powerful feature can save you time and frustration when recovering from unplanned database events.

Topics that will be discussed include:

• Challenges of recovering from unexpected database changes
• How Toad for Oracle can "mine" Oracle’s redo logs for recovery
• Using this feature to save time and reduce stress in recovery situations
• Best practices for minimizing the impact of accidental changes to your database

Speaker:

• Gary Jerep
  Software Sales Engineer I, Quest Software

When you need to update a PL/SQL object, how do you know if you’ve identified the other objects that the piece of code uses? The last thing you want to do is introduce a problem because you missed a dependency.