For the uninitiated " Toad" (administrator tool for oracle developer) was for decades the "boxcutter Swiss "of thousands of administrators / developers on Oracle databases, including myself. Then for years I have dedicated myself to something else, but when I returned recently to deal with oracle database and in particular I started hunting for this old man, imagining to find it "technically" updated, but "philosophically" as I had left: a paid version with lots of advanced features, especially on the front of tuning, and a free one, with the bottom of what is to me: a practical "schema browser" and a good handler of the query. Indeed, this combination still exists, but with a "small" detail: the free version is to Maturity: about ninety days after installation .... puff! The application is no longer! The site
praise even to provide 90 days of operation instead of 60, so as to better assess the version to be adopted. Maybe it's too much time away from development that are active, but escapes me at the moment the difference between "freeware" and "shareware "....
Now, maybe I'll be overly cautious, but never rely a project, large or small, for a tool that expires as the cheese, and then who knows, with the risk of being on foot, damage to a research tool and an alternative in the meantime to go to the command line!
praise even to provide 90 days of operation instead of 60, so as to better assess the version to be adopted. Maybe it's too much time away from development that are active, but escapes me at the moment the difference between "freeware" and "shareware "....
Now, maybe I'll be overly cautious, but never rely a project, large or small, for a tool that expires as the cheese, and then who knows, with the risk of being on foot, damage to a research tool and an alternative in the meantime to go to the command line!
The popularity must have given them a little 'head, so as to define himself on the site "de-facto standard tool for Oracle database development and administration." Unfortunately for them they did not reckon with the fervent OpenSource community and did not think to do that I have started to make me, that is a nice Google to search for an alternative. The result was brilliant as always and the open source community has come to my aid once again, with a tool strikingly similar to Toad: TOra .
Rather than list the features (I highly recommend for experts to touch) I wanted to emphasize the fact that now the action all'OpenSource an alternative that is becoming more and more frequently proves to be the cheapest.
One important thing to note is that in the OpenSource world that one tool or application is free does not mean that the activity is at no cost: it is often necessary period of additional training, or a tool with limited functionality or less reliable (as in these days I'm finding to be OpenOffice!) may be chosen after careful evaluation of cost-benefit analysis. In this from now on I will be very helpful site www.osalt.com , discovered during this latest research, which aims to propose alternatives starting from the open-source business applications, certainly worthy a very thorough tour!
Rather than list the features (I highly recommend for experts to touch) I wanted to emphasize the fact that now the action all'OpenSource an alternative that is becoming more and more frequently proves to be the cheapest.
One important thing to note is that in the OpenSource world that one tool or application is free does not mean that the activity is at no cost: it is often necessary period of additional training, or a tool with limited functionality or less reliable (as in these days I'm finding to be OpenOffice!) may be chosen after careful evaluation of cost-benefit analysis. In this from now on I will be very helpful site www.osalt.com , discovered during this latest research, which aims to propose alternatives starting from the open-source business applications, certainly worthy a very thorough tour!
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