Product Description

TOAD Handbook is a guide for developing Oracle applications and administering Oracle databases with TOAD. Starting with installation and configuration, the book covers the TOAD SQL editors in depth, including dozens of helpful, undocumented features. Later chapters discuss reporting and exporting data and using several add-on tools designed to enhance TOAD development. Along the way, the authors provide critical insights into the workings of TOAD and how developers can use it to make the most of their applications. Includes a foreword by Jim McDaniel, the inventor of TOAD.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #278382 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 312 pages

From the Back Cover

TOAD Handbook is a guide for developing Oracle applications and administering Oracle databases with TOAD. Starting with installation and configuration, the book covers the TOAD SQL editors in depth, including dozens of helpful, undocumented features. Later chapters discuss reporting and exporting data and using several add-on tools designed to enhance TOAD development. Along the way, the authors provide critical insights into the workings of TOAD and how developers can use it to make the most of their applications. Includes a foreword by Jim McDaniel, the inventor of TOAD.

About the Author

Bert Scalzo is a product architect for Quest Software and a member of the TOAD development team. He designed many of the features in the TOAD DBA module. Mr. Scalzo has worked as an Oracle DBA with versions 4 through 9i. He has worked for both Oracle Education and Consulting. Mr. Scalzo holds several Oracle Masters, a BS, MS, and PhD in Computer Science, an MBA, and several insurance industry designations. His key areas of DBA interest are Linux and data warehousing (he designed 7-Eleven Corporation's multi-terabyte, star-schema data warehouse). Mr. Scalzo has also written articles for Oracle's Technology Network, Oracle Informant, PC Week, Linux Journal, Oracle Magazine, and linux. He also has written Oracle DBA Guide to Data Warehousing and Star Schemas. Mr. Scalzo can be reached at bscalzo@attbi.com or Bert.Scalzo@Quest.com.

Dan Hotka has over 24 years in the computer industry and over 19 years experience with Oracle products. He is an internationally recognized Oracle expert with Oracle experience dating back to the Oracle V4.0 days. He has authored the books Oracle9i Development By Example and Oracle8i from Scratch published by Que and has coauthored the popular books Oracle Unleashed, Oracle8 Server Unleashed, and Oracle Development Unleashed published by SAMS and Special Edition using Oracle8/8i published by Que. He is frequently published in Oracle trade journals, and regularly speaks at Oracle conferences and user groups around the world. Visit his Web site at DanHotka. Dan can be reached at dhotka@earthlink.net.

Customer Reviews

First class Documentation
For most TOAD users, a decent general purpose reference for understanding TOAD's plethora of features - especially the DBA module's more advanced screens, wizards and utilities.

Pretty Neat Book
Useful book for users new to TOAD, especially those who don't want to or have the time to play and feel their way around products or software that are new to them.
Not something without which one cannot survive but something that is really useful to keep handy.

A perfect companion to the O'Reilly Reference Book
While I enjoy the brevity and straightforwardness of the Toad Pocket Reference for Oracle, this book really gave a lot of insight as to WHY and HOW I could use Toad to accomplish my daily tasks with Toad.

It was also great to see that the things I'm doing as an Oracle professional are in line with what Bert and Dan are advocating.