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Browse All TopicsI am very good with SQL. But I urgentely need o lern how to use TOAD for Oracle
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by: mrjoltcolaPosted on 2009-05-31 at 13:50:59ID: 24513880
And you've found none on Google? If you can't find one on Google, I doubt I can find one for you.
Can you ask some specific questions that I can help you with? There are a lot of Toad users here, we can help.
For starters, the basics are:
1) Setup your Oracle aliases. If you have tnsnames.ora alraedy working, Toad's connect dialog will list them (Session -> Connect) or you can direct connect without tnsnames.ora config using the hostname/IP and the instance name. Once connected to a database you can open Editors and Schema Browsers (Database menu) or right click on the connection (with newer Toad) to choose one or the other.
2) Editors (SQL window)
Used for executing scripts or single statements and viewing output in a grid. You can highlight a query and use F9 to run it, or you can execute the whole window as a script. You can also do things with the output in the data grid, by clicking the little book icon at the top left of the grid. It lets you do things such as save data as CSV or Excel, amongst others.
3) Schema Browser (GUI for browsing the database and performing operations)
Toad Schema browser, you can simply choose an object or tab, and usually right-click brings up the context menu for all operations on that object that you can perform.