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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: RE: Opinions sought on possible TOAD replacement
Hi,
I'll second Chris' statement. I found PL/SQL Developer to be a great and
inexpensive PL/SQL development tool. Its debugger is especially good. In
fact from a development perspective I found it to be far superior to TOAD.
Have no idea about support and consideration of user suggestions as I had no
issues to report.
However as its name suggests it is purely a PL/SQL development tool and not
an administration tool, but then I don't think its trying to be the latter.
Would recommend you stick with TOAD for administration, I don't know of
anything else significantly cheaper out there to replace TOAD and any small
licensing savings will be lost to lower productivity during the learning
curve anyway.
Regards,
Mark.
From: "Dunscombe, Chris" <Chris.W.Dunscombe_at_accenture.com> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 07:50:30 +0100 Subject: RE: Opinions sought on possible TOAD replacement Paul, I've used PL/SQL Developer by Allround Automations to develop PL/SQL procs, packages and it's fine including a well featured de-bugger. I believe that a site licence costs $3,000. As to it being a DBA tool I'd have to say it's not in the same league as TOAD Xpert with DBA module. Chris Dunscombe Accenture Worthing Unit Internal: 71-3558 External: 01903-283558 Email: chris.W.dunscombe_at_accenture.com -----Original Message----- Sent: 15 October 2003 16:59 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Management have been grumbling about the cost of TOAD Professional licenses, and have been "recommended" a cheaper product called PL/SQL Developer by Allround Automations (available from Inthink Corporation at $150 a pop). Now, I've been to the product website, and read up on all its features, and it basically looks like a nice enough product, but aimed squarely at PL/SQL developers, rather than including all the DBA-oriented goodies we find in TOAD. My first reaction is to respond by saying "fine, give it to the developers to replace their copies of TOAD, if they find it adequate for development, but it's not a DBA tool, so I'll keep my TOAD Xpert with DBA module, thanks very much!". But if anyone on the list has tried both products, I'd be interested to know what you think. Is it as usable as TOAD Professional for developers? Does it have hidden charms which would make it a suitable replacement for DBA use? How responsive are the product developers to requests for enhancements? Any input is very welcome! Paul Vincent DBA University of Central England
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