Quest - Toad for Oracle is a unique developer tool that effectively helps you simplify workflows, reduce code defects, enhance code quality and performance, and facilitate team collaboration.

Automate administrative tasks and proactively manage your databases while achieving performance optimization and risk mitigation.

Quickly and easily define, search for, and protect sensitive data in all your Oracle databases.

• Assist database developers in seamlessly integrating into DevOps processes

• Help development teams collaborate and share projects, code, and reports

• Deliver better code quality, performance, and maintainability while reducing manual operations to minimize human errors

• Take control of all Oracle database management tasks

• Discover and quickly diagnose the root causes of performance degradation, significantly reducing risks in production environments

• Achieve greater mastery when deploying new applications or modifying existing ones

• Brainstorm and leverage a community of millions, including colleagues and experts

Quest Toad offers a comprehensive suite of functionalities designed to enhance database development and administration. Its key functions include:

• Database Development Tools: Write, edit, and debug SQL and PL/SQL code efficiently with an intuitive editor that supports syntax highlighting and code completion.
• SQL Optimization and Tuning: Automatically optimize SQL queries to improve performance, and use the tuning lab to identify and fix bottlenecks.
• Schema and Data Comparison: Compare and synchronize database schemas and data across different environments to ensure consistency.
• Automation of Routine Tasks: Automate repetitive tasks like code reviews, testing, and reporting to increase productivity and reduce manual errors.
• Team Collaboration Features: Collaborate seamlessly with team members by sharing projects, code snippets, scripts, and reports within the tool.
• Database Administration: Manage database objects, monitor performance, and handle user permissions with robust administrative features.
• Risk Mitigation: Identify potential issues before they affect production environments, reducing downtime and data loss risks.
• Integration with Version Control Systems: Integrate with popular version control systems like Git and SVN to manage code changes effectively.
• Data Modeling and Design: Visually design and modify database structures, and generate accurate DDL scripts for deployment.
• Cloud and On-Premises Support: Work with both cloud-based and on-premises Oracle databases, providing flexibility in various deployment scenarios.
• Data Protection: Quickly define, locate, and secure sensitive data across all Oracle databases to ensure compliance with data protection regulations.

By leveraging these functionalities, Quest Toad empowers database professionals to deliver high-quality applications efficiently while minimizing risks and operational costs.

• PL/SQL and SQL Script Development and Maintenance: Provides a robust integrated debugging suite for PL/SQL and SQL*Plus scripts, as well as utPLSQL unit testing, enabling seamless integration of testing into the database development process.
• Sensitive Data Awareness: Identifies and highlights potential sensitive information to draw user attention.
• Code Analysis: Automatically conducts code quality reviews to ensure objectivity and consistency, generating performance scorecards for your code. Rules can be adjusted to fit your company or project requirements. Includes data generation functionality that populates forms with large amounts of real data for functional testing.
• Data Generation: Allows for the creation of test data to facilitate comprehensive testing scenarios.

• Database Workload Replay: Simulate real-world database workloads to test changes and optimize performance without affecting production environments.
• Performance Diagnostics and Monitoring: Advanced tools to identify performance bottlenecks and provide actionable insights for tuning.
• SQL Optimization Expert: Comprehensive SQL tuning capabilities, including automated query optimization and advanced indexing strategies.
• Schema Management Enhancements: Enhanced tools for managing complex database schemas, including advanced compare-and-sync functionality.
• Data Masking and Protection: Secure sensitive data for testing and development environments with built-in data masking tools.
• Collaboration and Team Features: Advanced team collaboration tools for sharing insights, scripts, and analysis across teams.

• The Developer Edition offers simple and fast single-statement optimization. Integrated SQL and PL/SQL performance tuning features are accessible through the Toad Editor's Auto Optimize SQL function or as a standalone tool via SQL Optimizer for Oracle, which ensures exceptional performance by automatically validating SQL and PL/SQL.

• With SQL Optimizer, you can scan SQL and PL/SQL code to identify potential performance issues. If a better-performing SQL alternative exists, it generates replacement code for immediate implementation in the codebase. It also creates index recommendations based on continuous database SQL workloads and performs index impact analysis in test environments to assess how changes affect overall performance.

• The Code Analysis feature from the Expert Edition supports dynamic code violation notifications, scanning code to identify SQL tuning candidates, ensuring compliance with coding standards and improved performance.

• Design and Development — Ensure your code is well-designed, meets functional requirements, and is error-free.
• Testing and Review — Go beyond manual code reviews to generate high-quality code more efficiently. Automate testing, code optimization, and scalability tests throughout the development and release processes.
• Deployment — Maintain consistent code quality standards across the entire project, ensuring deployment readiness with in-depth insights into code performance and quality.
• Automation — Enhance coding consistency and efficiency throughout the database development lifecycle, including development, testing, and deployment, through automation.
• Collaboration — Easily collaborate with team members, colleagues, and database experts using various built-in collaboration features, including integration with the Toad World community.

Includes all the features of Toad for Oracle Professional Edition and provides tools for simple and fast single-statement optimization. Integrated SQL and PL/SQL performance tuning features can be accessed through the Toad Editor’s Auto Optimize SQL function or the standalone SQL Optimizer for Oracle, which ensures exceptional performance by automatically validating SQL and PL/SQL.

With SQL Optimizer, you can scan SQL and PL/SQL code to identify potential performance issues. If better-performing SQL alternatives exist, it generates replacement code for immediate implementation in the codebase. It also creates index recommendations based on continuous database SQL workloads and performs index impact analysis in test environments to assess the impact of these changes on overall performance.

The Code Analysis feature from the Expert Edition supports dynamic code violation notifications and scans code to identify SQL tuning candidates, ensuring compliance with coding standards and optimal performance.

• Management — Automate repetitive routine tasks, including managing users, roles, infrastructure, and programs for both on-premises and cloud databases.
• Performance Management — Quickly and accurately identify and resolve performance issues in systems, databases, and applications while proactively preventing similar occurrences in the future.
• Change Management — Use performance testing to predict and understand the impact of changes before deployment, ensuring successful database migrations and upgrades without risking business operations.
• Collaboration — Share scripts, knowledge, and best practices with other database administrators and development teams to improve workflows and enhance quality.

Quest - Toad for Oracle DB Admin Module enhances database management by providing comprehensive tools for administrators. Key features include:

Database Health Monitoring: Conducts extensive health checks to identify vulnerabilities, configuration issues, and performance bottlenecks, ensuring database stability.

Schema and Data Comparison: Facilitates the comparison and synchronization of database schemas and data across different environments, maintaining consistency.

User and Session Management: Simplifies the administration of user accounts and sessions, streamlining access control and monitoring.

Performance Optimization: Provides insights into logical and physical I/O, event waits, sessions, and memory usage, enabling targeted performance improvements.

Automation of Routine Tasks: Automates repetitive database management tasks, enhancing efficiency and reducing the potential for human error.

By integrating these features, the DB Admin Module empowers administrators to maintain robust, efficient, and secure Oracle database environments.

• Accelerated Development Cycles: By enabling the production of higher-quality code with fewer defects, Toad for Oracle shortens development timelines, facilitating faster application delivery.
• Sensitive Data Management: The platform allows for the definition, search, and protection of sensitive data across all Oracle databases, ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations.
• Standardized Processes: Toad for Oracle facilitates the implementation of consistent and repeatable processes and best practices, enhancing overall workflow efficiency.
• Performance Optimization: The tool enables quick and precise identification and resolution of database performance issues, maintaining optimal system functionality.
• Automated SQL Optimization: Toad for Oracle automates tedious SQL optimization tasks, reducing manual effort and minimizing the risk of errors.
• Streamlined Database Management: It manages, automates, and schedules complex routine database management tasks, enhancing productivity for database administrators.
• Scalability Assurance: Through automated performance testing, Toad for Oracle ensures that production environments can scale effectively to meet growing demands.

• Supports CI/CD Development Process: Assists database developers in seamlessly integrating into DevOps workflows, improving development efficiency.
• Lowers the Learning Curve for Databases: Provides an intuitive interface and tools that simplify database management and development, suitable for users of all experience levels.
• Automated Performance Testing: Ensures applications achieve optimal performance before deployment, reducing risks in production environments.
• Simplifies SQL Performance Tuning: Features a built-in SQL optimizer that quickly identifies performance issues and offers optimization suggestions to enhance query efficiency.
• Quickly Identifies Database Performance Issues: Offers real-time monitoring and diagnostic tools to swiftly locate and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring system stability.

• Comprehensive Database Development Tools: Write, edit, and debug SQL and PL/SQL code efficiently with an intuitive editor featuring syntax highlighting and code completion.
• Integrated SQL Optimization: Automatically optimize SQL queries for better performance using built-in SQL tuning capabilities.
• Schema and Data Comparison: Compare and synchronize database schemas and data across environments to ensure consistency.
• Real-Time Performance Monitoring: Monitor database health, system performance, and resource utilization in real-time to quickly address issues.
• Automated Tasks and Workflows: Simplify repetitive tasks like code reviews, testing, and database management with automation tools.
• Sensitive Data Management: Identify, secure, and manage sensitive data across all Oracle databases to meet compliance requirements.
• Version Control Integration: Seamlessly integrate with popular version control systems like Git and SVN for efficient code management.
• Collaboration Tools: Share scripts, insights, and analysis with team members to improve teamwork and project outcomes.
• Cloud and On-Premises Support: Work with both cloud-based and on-premises Oracle databases, offering flexibility for diverse deployment needs.
• Data Protection and Security: Implement advanced security measures such as encryption and access control to protect critical data.