Copyright © 2006 Quest Software Toad Through the Years A Celebration of 10 Years of Toad.

Copyright © 2006 Quest Software

Toad Through the YearsA Celebration of 10 Years of Toad

He was once a lonely tadpole!

He grew fast…

…in 1999 he was Acquired by Quest Software

Toad and Quest Software

Toad Delivers Value

• Better usability• More functionality• Greater flexibility

Expansion Beyond Oracle

• Toad for SQL Server

– Commercial version released in September 2005

• Toad for DB2

– Commercial version released in September 2005

• Toad for MySQL Freeware

– Released in April 2004

Expansion Beyond Developers• Developers

– Toad Development Suite for Oracle released in February 2006

• Analysts– Toad for Data Analysis: multi-platform querying and reporting tool

– Released in August 2007

• DBAs– Toad DBA Suite for Oracle released world wide in January 2008

Community is Key!

Toad World your one-stop resource for all things Toad

• Over 29,000 members

– Expertise

– Collaboration

– Resources

What makes Toad Stand Apart?

The de-facto standard Oracle development and administration tool used by over one million database

professionals world wide

• All-in-one tool

• Encourages teamwork

• Provides visual representations

• Simplifies development project management

• Records actions for playback and sharing

• Helps provide documentation to management

• Includes comprehensive reporting capabilities

• Compares and synchronizes schemas for DBAs

• Optimizes SQL and indexes with proprietary tool included in some editions

Toad for Oracle 9.7

• Includes Toad for Data Analysis 2.0 for multi-db querying and reporting

• Enhanced dev best practices functionality such as ability to generate test data, code performance testing for SLAs, and code analysis and refactoring enhancements.

• New performance diagnostics, advisories, workload replay and RMAN functionality. Change management and DBA workflow enhancements.

Thank You

Toad Through the YearsA Celebration of 10 Years of Toad