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Introduction
Toad for Oracle is now celebrating its 10th year of being the market leading Oracle tool for database p professionals. Whether you are new to Toad, or have been using it for the past decade, there are several features that we feel you should be familiar with. This document will step you through some Toad fundamentals. We break down the features by the following areas: Standard features discusses functionality provided by the base edition of Toad Xpert features discusses our proprietary SQL and Index optimization features Database Administration features discusses how Toad can help a DBA or Development team manage their Oracle environments with Toad. If you are already a Toad customer and do not have access to the features being discussed below, please contact your Quest Sales Representative and request a complimentary 30day evaluation license key.
You can also use the Configure button dialog on the Right Hand Side. 2) Display Type Configure Toad to show your objects in a Tree List, Drop Down list, or using a Single Line of tabs.
Selecting Dropdown will give you the most amount of real estate for listing objects and allow you to use the keyboard to navigate the object type list. 3) Favorites Add regularly accessed objects to the favorites tab by right clicking on the object and selecting Add to SB Favorites. 4) Projects Organize your database objects by Application or Project by right clicking on an object(s) and selecting Add to Project Manager. Having a Project defined will allow you to now filter your object list by Project. This can be handy when you are logged into a 30,000+ object schema that contains tables for 30 different applications and you only want to see the Payroll tables versus everything.
5) History Quickly navigate to objects youve browsed to previously. Use the Sundial button
6) Data View and modify a tables data by selecting table from the object tabular view, and the DATA from the right side of the screen a) Sort/Filter the data by selecting the icon resembling a funnel b) Select Columns- to limit the columns shown in the grid right click and choose SELECT COLUMNS c) Save the data to a file format of your choice by right clicking in the data grid and selecting Save As. This gives the choice of format and saving the data to a file or copying to the clipboard. d) Create Insert Statements by right clicking the data grid and selecting create insert statement. It will save inserts on clipboard to be run from Editor. e) Customize Layouts by dragging and dropping columns into select order. Fix a column or set of columns by right clicking and selecting fix current column. View only desired columns by right clicking and choosing select columns. To save a desired layout, select VIEW>OPTIONS>SCHEMA BROWSER> DATA and GRIDS>DATA GRIDS and check Save Layouts
f) Card View allows you to view records one a time vertically. Click on the Blue Book button to start using this feature.
g) Reporting- To access TOADs Fast Report reporting tool, right click in the Data Grid and select Report. You will find a report generation wizard to walk you through report creation. You can also access this via the Grid Toad menu item, e.g. GRID>Report. 7) Additional Detail View New for version 9.5, we now display by default all of the detail information for your objects on the Right-Hand-Side (RHS). You can manually add any of these detail items to the LHS by mouse-right-clicking in the column header on the LHS. For example you could add Num Rows and sort by table size.
8) ER Diagram Access our table specific Entity Relationship Diagram by selecting the icon in the tables tab the represents 3 tables joined together. Once in the ERD, you can choose to load up Toad Data Modeler (new for v9.6 and if you have Toad Data Modeler installed) for a more complete logical data model of your selected objects.
Query Builder (Formerly SQL Modeler) - allows for building queries visually 1) Select Tables From the VIEW menu select the OBJECT PALLETT this will invoke a sliding/dockable window displaying Tables and Columns. Select one, all or any subset in between of the tables or views necessary for the query and drag them into the workspace on the left. 2) View Joins If the tables have relationships defined by Referential Integrity Constraints (Foreign Keys), Toad will automatically detect these and youre your tables/views. Double click on a link to view or change the join condition for your query.
3) Choose Columns Double click in the check boxes of the columns desired for the query 4) Add Where Clause Criteria Drag a selected column from the SELECT tree area and drop it on the WHERE area. You can also mouse-right-click on a column in the tree and select Include in Where Clause. This will open the Where Definition window. Click on the ellipsis button to see distinct values for the selected field to help you build a meaningful where condition.
5) View Generated Query View the SQL by looking at bottom of the screen. 6) Run Generated Query Run the query with the F9 key or the green play button to return a data set. 7) Explain Plan View the explain plan by clicking on the ambulance icon on the second of the top two icon bars 8) Create a model from existing Query- From the Editor right click and select Send to Query Builder to reverse-engineer your selected query to a Query Builder model.
Editor the former SQL Editor, PLSQL Editor, and offline editors have been condensed to a single window for all of your SQL, PL/SQL, anonymous block, SQL*Plus script, XML, etc editing and ad hoc querying the database. 1. SQL Recall Access previously executed SQL by selecting F8. This will put a Slide in slide out SQL recall button on the left side of the Editor. The user can filter the list by adding to Personal SQLs or take it a step further by adding to Named SQL both of which are found under the SQL Editor menu option. To select Personal and Named SQL, right click the statement and select Change to Personal or Change to Named. a. Named SQL Giving your SQL Statements a name allows you to recall your query by context versus obscure SQL you may have wrote 6 months ago. If you spend more than 30 seconds writing a SQL statement, give it a name. You can now recall w/o using the F8 dialog giving you more room to type in the editor. Use <CNTRL>+N to popup a list of named SQL statements. Selecting one will put the SQL in your editor. b. Quick Browse You can cycle through your list of previously written SQL statements using <ALT>+<Up Arrow> or <ALT>+<Down Arrow>. You can do this on selected text to do a limited replacement. 2. Table and Column Windows From the VIEW menu select the Object Pallete - this will invoke a sliding/dockable window displaying Tables and Columns. Once these windows are slid into view, drag and drop or double-click mouse functionality can be fully utilized. Another manner for retrieving table names is by selecting the first letter or letters of the table and hitting <CTRL>+<Period>. To access a table, or ANY other object description, place the cursor on the text and hit F4. 3. SQL Function Templates From the VIEW menu select the CODE SNIPPETS this will invoke a sliding/dockable window displaying code templates. A drop down lets us see all of the different Function Types from which we can select templates. Drag and drop can also be utilized from this dockable window. 4. Make Code Statements TOAD supports 6 different programming languages (C++, Delphi, Perl, etc), chosen through the Options menu, for creating code statements based on SQL, or for stripping non-SQL syntax from a code statement. To take a SQL statement and automatically format it to be imbedded into a Java program, for example, we need to simply select Make CODE Statement from the Editor menu. This will copy the current windows statement to the clipboard
in whichever languages syntax the user has chosen. The next step is to paste the formatted SQL call into the code. You can extend this feature to the programming language of your choice by adding it manually in the Options dialog. 5. Format Code To instantly transform chaotic, untidy code into easily managed aesthetically pleasing code by right clicking in the editor and selecting the icon showing two yellow arrows. Under the menu option View, select Formatting Options to customize how the code will be formatted.
6. Auto Replace To access the auto replace, right-mouse-click from the editor and select Editing Options. From there choose Auto Replace to set what the user wants replaced and with what to replace it. 7. Code Templates You can customize the pre-written code templates by rightclicking in the Editor and choosing Editing Options. From there you will default into the behavior portion of the Editor options. From the Language area, choose edit, and you will see a number of templates to edit. Select Templates to see, add and edit you templates. Toad provides many templates but the user can also add their own templates from here. To access the Templates from the Editor simultaneously press <CTRL> and the Space Bar. The user can also memorize the shortcut name, type one and hit CRTL/Space to retrieve the Template.
8. Code Insight Toad can help you write your SQL and/or PL/SQL statements. The Code Insight feature has been remarkably improved for the 9.6 release. As you may remember from Toad v 9.5, Code Insight (<ctrl>+<Period> from the editor) allows you to quickly browse and select tables in the editor. Now in 9.6, Code Insight has the ability to see the following object types: a. Tables b. Views
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Aliases Functions|Procedures|Packages (with methods) Types (with attributes and methods) Java Source Sequences Users Public Synonymns
Code Insight can now be initiated by <CNTRL><Period> and <CNTRL><T> (<CNTRLl><Period> for wild-carding , <CNTRL><T> to list all, <SHIFT><TAB> to auto fill).
Any child nodes of an object will be displayed when . is used after the insight window has been opened. j. Special Note: for performance reasons, not all of the above are enabled by default, in particular the public synonym type. 9. Tune the SQL Statement- ( See page 13)
Editing PLSQL- from the Editor window 1) Customizing Procedure Templates Toad has templates for Procedures, Functions, Triggers and Packages, which are fully customizable. To modify a template select proc templates from Toad options. 2) Execution Profiling Toad allows you to record your PL/SQL execution to determine where any execution bottlenecks are occurring, e.g. Why is my program taking so long to run? To execute a profiler run, toggle on the
stopwatch button next to the debug toggle. Then execute your PL/SQL program from the Editor. After it is finished, pull up the record from the Profiler tab. With version 9.6 and higher, you can now automatically pull up the visual chart representations of your PL/SQL runs by clicking on the Details button.
Quickly determine which line of code is taking the most time to run.
Toggle on the Details view to see a graphical representation. 3) Debugger A developers best friend for figuring out why your program isnt behaving as expected. Run your program line-by-line, by stepping through the code. a) Set Breakpointss To set execution breaks in the code leave the cursor on the line on which you wish the code to break and hit F5. Set conditional breaks by double clicking the break in the Break and Watch view window. Make sure to only add breakpoints that are executable. These are marked by little blue dots in the editor gutter for each line. Non-executable lines will not have their breakpoints honored by Oracle. b) Add Watch To add a watch on a variable, leave the cursor blinking on the variable on which the watch is desired and click the eyeglasses icon. New for v9.5, you can see the values of all of your code variables by using
4) Modifying Variable Values While Debugging To artificially change the value of one of your PL/SQL variables, highlight the variable in the watch window and hit the calculator on the icon bar which, once moused over will read Evaluate/Modify Watch 5) Automated PL/SQL Code Review (Toad for Oracle Professional)- Run your programs through our CodeXpert feature. With more than 100 Rules for Best Practices (provided by Steven Feuerstein!),
Toad can even detect poorly written SQL code that could affect performance in production environments!
Querying Databases other than Oracle- Introducing Toad for Data Analysis 1. Connect natively to the following non-Oracle databases: a. IBMs DB2, LUW and z/OS b. Microsoft SQL Server c. MySQL d. Sybase ASE 2. Connect via ODBC to other databases, including: a. Terradata
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b. Informix c. PostreSQL d. Any datasource that supports the ODBC v3 protocol Quick connect to MS Access and MS Excel w/o ODBC configuration for querying, reporting, and exports/imports! Build queries visually or use the familiar Toad editor to get to your data Browse the contents of the database using a single Browser (just like Toad for Oracle!) Compare and Synch DATA between different databases Rich MS Excel integration, build pivot tables and ODBC linked queries on the fly!
Toad for Oracle now includes Toad for Data Analysis which extends our powerful browsing and querying technology to other RDBMS platforms! Notes regarding this feature: Toad for Data Analysis is available for any Toad for Oracle user that is current on maintenance. If you need to perform database administration or application development tasks, then be aware Quest has specific Toad IDEs for those platforms, e.g. Toad for MySQL, Toad for DB2, Toad for SQL Server. Your Toad for Data Analysis license is provided via Toad for Oracle and cannot be transferred to another person Toad for Oracle remains your Go To tool for anything Oracle. Toad for Data Analysis is provided here to give you access to the data in sources other than Oracle.
Toads Professional edition allows you to select one or more tables and generate test data. Toad will even honor your foreign key relationships when creating key values. Generate functional tests for your PL/SQL without writing any PL/SQL code
Describe in plain English the behavior of your PL/SQL program, and let Toad generate and manage your test code. Run a regression test anytime you make a change to your program. This feature is available with the Toad Development Suite for Oracle. Also included with the Professional Edition: 1. Code Xpert, Toads revolutionary SQL and PL/SQL Automated Code Review 2. Export File Browser Toad can read your Oracle .DMP files just like a live databse 3. IMPORT/EXPORT wizards. Run an Export, Import, or DataPump session to move your data between instances.
Tuning SQL w/Toad OR Making SQL Go Faster by Clicking the Easy Button
Toad for Oracles Xpert Edition includes a comprehensive SQL Tuning solution which will identify problematic SQL, Optimize statements automatically, suggest index alternatives, and even provide impact analysis when making changes that affect the database. Wherever you encounter SQL in Toad, you can also invoke a tuning session for that statement by simply pressing the Optimize SQL button.
Batch Optimizer- The tuning technology now allows a user to send multiple
tuning jobs (any collection of SQL or any embedded SQL found in a set of PL/SQL programs) to a tuning queue. Each section of code will be evaluated. Any problematic SQL code will be automatically tuned. You will be informed what SQL the tuner was able to generate that will allow your query to run faster, and by how much!
Toads Batch Optimizer can take a collection of poorly performing SQL statements and tune them in batch. Well provide the new queries and show you then increased performance and before and after execution plans.
The tuning technology was updated for v9.5 of Toad. Starting with version 9.6, when starting a new tuning scenario, users will be prompted to add their SQL to the Batch Optimizer Queue, or by starting a new Tuning Lab session. The Tuning Lab session will allow the user to tune the SQL by hand just like it worked in versions 7-9.1 of Toad.
Tuning Lab- The Tuning Lab, or the classic Tuning window, guides the user through analyzing the current execution plan and then to generating SQL query rewrites that will hopefully find a different execution plan that positively affects the execution time. Toad offers an easy-to-understand execution plan which is automatically generated when a statement is moved into the Tuning area.
Toad takes selected tuning techniques like syntax transformation, hints, where clause order permutations, etc to generate new queries that force Oracle to consider new execution plans for your queries. Explain Plan- Toad offers an easy-to-understand execution plan which is automatically generated when a statement is moved into the Tuning area. The Explain Plan displays a numbered layout to show the order of operations. An English breakdown as to what each step of the explain means can be found right below the plan itself. This simplified execution plan is now offered directly in the Toad editor. Optimize - This is the make it go faster button. It is an icon represented by a blue tuning fork in the top left of the tuning window. This will rewrite the statement in as ways that generate a unique execution plans. Execute This button will run the selected query re-writes so we can see which one runs the fastest as compared to the original statement. Resolution After the re-writes are finished executing, click on the Resolution tab to see the winning query re-write.
Impact Analyzer Whenever you add one or more indexes to the database,
the execution plans for your applications embedded SQL can be dramatically impacted. The Impact Analyzer allows you to model these proposed system changes so you can see exactly how your new index affects everything else in the database. We generate the new theoretical index and the new execution plans for each of your production SQL statements. You can see what the before and after ramifications are to your system whenever you propose a change.
Identify key SQL code, propose a change to the system (a new index?), then see how that change affects the execution plans for your SQL code.
Easily create multiple types of health check scans that run on selected instances on given days of the week and email the results to the DBAs responsible for those instances/database tasks.
the database level (users, roles, tablespaces, system privileges, etc.) You can select multiple instances and see the parameters set for each side-by-side, or you can drill down into the objects of the database just like you can for the Schema Browser. The Database Browser serves as your entry point to running most of the database level utilities in Toad. Start a health check, look for the most expensive sessions, startup or shutdown the instance, all with a single click. New for version 9.7, Toad now offers the ability to setup and run your database backups with our Recover Manager (RMAN) integration.
Zooming into a chart allows you to highlight chart lines or export the data to MS Excel.
Trace File Browser (Database > Diagnose > Trace File Browser)
Tired of using TKprof to analyze your trace files to see what is causing your database to run at less than peak performance? New for Toad v9.7, you can now visually inspect the contents of your Trace files. See immediately all of the queries captured with their binds, waits, and performance profiles.
Click on a query to see the binds variables and the values passed for execution.
Toad will show the number of queries that run under specific amounts of time. Drill down to an individual statement to see the Execution vs Parse vs Fetch vs Wait times so you know EXACTLY how to approach a tuning scenario.
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