I am using KeepTool Hora since July 2000 after having benchmarked and
tested Hora and Toad. Although these two are pretty similar and cool,
I picked up Hora for the GUI and the DBA features that are lacking in
Toad (don't know about the commercial version of Toad). Few months
ago, we upgraded to version 5 from 4. There is some interresting
enhancements but it seems to be a little bit slower.
"Andy Sprecher" <andy.sprecher_at_huntington.com> wrote in message news:<5c196358f68d45cccbfda664d5a0ad4e.94148_at_mygate.mailgate.org>...
> I've not used HORA but I'll toot TOAD's horn. I used it on the
> development side for several years. Before that I used notepad and
> SQL*Plus. I was 100 times more effective with TOAD.
>
> TOAD provides a basic integrated environment for writing PL/SQL packages
> and managing simple database objects. It also helps with syntax
> checking and had some "nice" features to aid a programmer with
> development ( table/index lookup hot-keys, rudamentary execution plans,
> color coded editor etc ). I'm sure other tools provide similar
> benefits, maybe even better, but if money is THAT tight free TOAD's
> price tag is nice for what you get and it beats SQL*Plus. (assuming
> you develop on a Windows box)
>
> In addition to the free version there is an "evaluation" version. If
> you don't mind Quest calling about every 2 days you can download an
> evaluation version for 30 days to get a feel for additional features
> available.
>
> That's my 2 cents worth.
Received on Thu Jun 13 2002 - 17:44:12 CDT
