Now We Know What TOAD Means
Tab Overload And Deluge 
Pop quiz: How many tabs are there in a Toad?
Filed in Oracle with 6 Comments | Tags: toadOracle PL/SQL Best Practices and Common Mistakes Videos
Here is Steven Feuerstein, the renowned Oracle PL/SQL guru, presenting “PL/SQL Best Practices, making the most of the of Oracle PL/SQL”:
And here is another presentation by Steven titled “You Wrote What? an examination of common coding mistakes made by PL/SQL Developers and how you can avoid them”:
Note: These videos are provided by Quest Software.
You can download the presentations in the videos above, and more, from oracleplsqlprogramming.com/resources.html.
Filed in Oracle, Tips with Comments Off | Tags: pl/sql, toadSQL Developer and UTF8
In this global economy the need for software globalization is increasing. As a result of this globalization, localization is becoming an important part of software development. And as a result of this localization, software developers like myself will have to work with multiple languages. So, it is becoming more crucial to have development tools that support multi-byte in addition to single-byte characters, like Chinese versus English for example.
As an Oracle database developer I have been using Quest Software Inc.’s SQL Navigator for years. We are currently involved in the implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite in our new plant in China. So, now we have the Chinese characters to worry about. It turns out that SQL Navigator does not support multi-byte characters and UTF8 encoding (which is needed to display Chinese characters), however, Oracle’s SQL developer does
Here is how SQL Navigator displays a query result that returns Chinese characters: (more…)
Filed in Oracle, Tips with 23 Comments | Tags: sql-developer, sql-navigator, toad, tool, utf8Your SQL Tool Part II
As a follow-up to my previous post about the different SQL development tools, here is the result of the quick poll I had on this site.
I asked the question: What SQL development tool do you use most? There were a total of 150 answers, broken down like this: (more…)
Filed in Oracle, Technology with 3 Comments | Tags: plsql-developer, sql, sql-developer, sql-navigator, sqlplus, toad, toolYour SQL tool
Some Oracle professionals swear by SQL Plus, others just don’t even use it. There are a lot of tools out there for interacting with the Oracle database (and other databases as well) that serve as an alternative for SQL Plus; to name a few: (more…)
Filed in Oracle, Technology with 13 Comments | Tags: sql-developer, sql-navigator, sqlplus, toad, tool
