

But the Toad Freeware license comes with restrictions.

Toad for Oracle is offered in both freeware and commercial versions. "I find that very similar to, but the cost is right," said Chris Tryon, a Project Raptor beta tester and manager of programming at Hatch Mott MacDonald, an engineering consulting firm based in Milburn, New Jersey. Oracle said the tool is available free of charge without restriction. This allows our analysts to focus on analyzing the data and not have to spend time figuring out how to write sql statements to get to the data.The Toad program has a nice plug-in for performance tuning, whereas with the Oracle tool you have to switch over to Grid Control or their application server.ĭatabase administratorProgressive Medical Inc.ĭatabase professionals said that while Toad for Oracle software is more mature and offers more features, it's hard to ignore the price for SQL Developer. Our analytic teams do not always have in depth knowledge of SQL, which makes it difficult for them to dive deep into the data without a user interface that is very user friendly. The interface within Toad allows for users that don't have a technical background to be able to analyze the data within our tables to determine what new tables or requirements we need to implement. Our analyst teams need to be able to dive deep into the data in our database tables to build out specs needed to develop new business functionality or reporting. Our analyst teams across the whole organization utilize Toad to perform their day to day job. Our database administrators utilize this tool to view/manage process, table changes, analysis and some small data copies. I have been on multiple teams throughout that utilize this tool as their primary database interaction tools.

We use Toad for Oracle across the whole organization.
