This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.

TOAD^® Handbook, Second Edition, is the definitive, completely up-to-date guide to the newest version of TOAD, the world’s premier third-party Oracle utility. Packed with step-by-step recipes, screen snapshots, and hands-on exercises, this book brings together everything developers and DBAs need to maximize their productivity with TOAD in both administrative and development tasks.

TOAD product architect Bert Scalzo and leading TOAD trainer Dan Hotka thoroughly cover every area of TOAD’s functionality, offering practical, proven solutions that can be applied immediately to leverage TOAD’s dramatically improved feature set. Comprehensive coverage includes

• TOAD setup and configuration

• Browsing databases and schemas

• Editing SQL and PL/SQL within TOAD

• Creating new databases

• Checking database health

• Performing common DBA tasks

• Reporting via standard and custom reports

• Optimizing database performance

Throughout the text, the authors offer practical insights into each of TOAD’s most useful tools, from App Designer to Doc Generator, ER Diagrammer to Code Road Map.

This book is the only current, comprehensive, and affordable guide to the latest version of TOAD–a must-have for any TOAD user.

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 8 Ratings

out-of-date - 2008-07-17
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The book doesn't cover the current version of the product. If it is the only source of help for TOAD, then it doesn't help as the product is not at all like the book's version.

Great Book - Old Version 7.x - 2008-06-28
Reviewer Rating:
Great Book, Easy to read and well organized however the materials were for version 7.4 and the current release is 9.6.

Already Out of Date - 2009-10-07
Reviewer Rating:
This review is of the 2nd Edition, published September 2009. The version of TOAD it's written for (9.7) is a year old and the new version (10) comes out next week. I realize you have to have a product before documentation, but I thought with the book coming out now as the same time as the new version it would be written to include some TOAD 10 information. Release a book with the new version of the software, isn't that how it's usually done? The beta is public so we've known what is coming for a while but no such luck here.

Don't get me wrong, the book is still useful, but not near as much as it would be if written for the version of TOAD we'll all be using by the end of October.

An update to this book is long overdue - 2008-09-05
Reviewer Rating:
I should have paid more attention to the reviews by recent reviewers prior to purchasing this book. If you're using any Toad version after 7.x, you're not going get much out of this book.

And, overall, I found the book to be poorly organized and hard to follow.

Great for TOAD users who want to get more out of the tool - 2007-06-27
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I've been using TOAD for a few years, but like most users, tended to only use a few of the controls. I knew the product could do more, and could probably be more useful, but I never had the time to explore.

This book suits my purposes well. From just reading the first part of the book I was able to customise and de-clutter screens which was of immediate benefit. The book is well-suited to jumping in to relevant sections and skipping others of less interest. Whenever I have a few minutes to spare, I can usually browse through the book and find some feature that I wasn't aware of.

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