The smallest North American toad is the oak toad (Bufo quercicus), which reaches a length of only 1.3 inches (3.3 centimeters). Cane toads (Rhinella marina) are the largest toads and grow up to 9 inches (23 centimeters) in length. But a massive cane toad caught in Australia, nicknamed “Toadzilla,” has been described as the size of a small dog!
| Original author(s) | Jim McDaniel |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Quest Software |
| Written in | Various (depending on the database used) |
| Type | Database management tools |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | https://www.quest.com/toad/ |
Toad Identification Guide
Toad is a database management toolset from Quest Software for managing relational and non-relational databases using SQL aimed at database developers, database administrators, and data analysts. The Toad toolset runs against Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2 (LUW & z/OS), SAP and MySQL. A Toad product for data preparation supports many data platforms.
Toads usually have broader bodies and shorter legs than frogs, and their feet have only a little webbing. Their skin is thick, rough, and often bumpy, and sometimes secretes toxic substances. Toads usually do not live in water as adults but prefer cool, moist places on the ground. Toad is a character who is Princess Peach's attendant and a longtime protector of the Mushroom Kingdom. He is actually a singular character among an entire species of look-alikes, leading to confusion over some of his appearances. He usually has the role of a supporting character who tries to help Mario and Luigi on their adventures, although he occasionally has been a main protagonist, such. 1: any of numerous anuran amphibians (especially family Bufonidae) that are distinguished from the related frogs by being more terrestrial in habit though returning to water to lay their eggs, by having a build that is squatter and shorter with weaker and shorter hind limbs, and by having skin that is rough, dry, and warty rather than smooth and moist.
History[edit]
A practicing Oracle DBA, Jim McDaniel, designed Toad for his own use in the mid-1990s.[1] He called it Tool for Oracle Application Developers, shortened to 'TOAD'. McDaniel initially distributed the tool as shareware and later online as freeware.
Quest Software acquired TOAD in October 1998.[2] Quest Software itself was acquired by Dell in 2012 to form Dell Software.[3][4] In June 2016, Dell announced the sale of their software division, including the Quest business, to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management Corporation.[5] On October 31, 2016, the sale was finalized. On November 1, 2016, the sale of Dell Software to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management was completed, and the company re-launched as Quest Software.[6]
Features[edit]
- Connection Manager - Allow users to connect natively to the vendor’s database whether on-premise or DBaaS.
- Browser - Allow users to browse all the different database/schema objects and their properties effective management.
- Editor - A way to create and maintain scripts and database code with debugging and integration with source control.
- Unit Testing (Oracle) - Ensures code is functionally tested before it is released into production.
- Static code review (Oracle) - Ensures code meets required quality level using a rules-based system.
- SQL Optimization - Provides developers with a way to tune and optimize SQL statements and database code without relying on a DBA. Advanced optimization enables DBAs to tune SQL effectively in production.
- Scalability testing and database workload replay - Ensures that database code and SQL will scale properly before it gets released into production.
Books[edit]
- Toad Pocket Reference for Oracle plsql 1st Edition by Jim McDaniel and Patrick McGrath, O'Reilly, 2002 (ISBN0596003374, ISBN978-0-596-00337-1)
- Toad Pocket Reference for Oracle 2nd Edition by Jeff Smith, Bert Scalzo, and Patrick McGrath, O'Reilly, 2005 (ISBN0596009712, ISBN978-0-596-00971-7)
- TOAD Handbook by Bert Scalzo and Dan Hotka, Sams, 2003 (ISBN0672324865, ISBN978-0-672-32486-4)
- TOAD Handbook 2nd Edition by Bert Scalzo and Dan Hotka, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2009 (ISBN0321649109, ISBN978-0-321-64910-2).
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Scalzo, Bert; Hotka, Dan (February 2003). Toad Handbook. Developer's Library. Jim McDaniel. Sams Publishing. p. xiv. ISBN978-0-672-32486-4. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
I've been working on TOAD now for more than six years. Or has it been seven?
- ^'Quest Software's Acquisitions'. Dell Inc. Archived from the original on 2012-02-03. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
- ^'Dell to Acquire Quest Software'. www.businesswire.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- ^'Quest Software, its Toad tool leaping over to Dell'. SearchOracle. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
- ^Miller, Ron. 'Confirmed: Dell sells software division to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management'. TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
- ^'Quest Launches as an Independent Software Company Backed by Francisco Partners and Elliott Management'. www.businesswire.com. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
Toadfish
Toad
External links[edit]
Toad The Wet Sprocket
- Quest Software Toad company website