Quest Software Overview

Quest Software offers a range of innovative products that help you get more performance and more productivity from your applications, databases and Windows infrastructure

Micromail can supply all products from the Quest range including:

1. Toad for Oracle
2. Toad for Oracle Professional
3. Toad for Oracle Xpert
4. Toad Development Suite for Oracle
5. Toad for Oracle DBA Module
6. SQL Navigator

Toad for Oracle

Toad® for Oracle provides:

• Greater efficiency when performing daily tasks
• Greater accuracy when writing, debugging and tuning code
• Flexibility to perform many development and administration tasks from a single tool
• A smooth workflow that allows users to move from one task to another easily
• Extensive reporting capabilities that produce quantifiable data and documentation
• Access to Oracle expertise through various Toad user communities

Toad® for Oracle offers a wide range of features for building and maintaining database programs, including PL/SQL, SQL, scripts and Java. You can:

• Visually create queries and execute them
• Construct and manage database objects
• Share project assets such as templates, scripts, and code snippets, with other team members using Project Manager
• Record workflow steps and play them back later with Action Recall

Available to Buy:

TOAD 9.5 for Oracle

Toad for Oracle Professional

Toad® for Oracle Professional includes all of the features in Toad for Oracle, plus a rich, integrated debugging suite for PL/SQL, which includes the ability to set watches on database variables using Smart Watches.

It also enables SQL*Plus, external application and Java source debugging. In addition, Toad or Oracle Professional allows you to perform Schema Compare.

This edition also includes CodeXpert, which automates code quality reviews for an objective and consistent review process. By incorporating rules from experts such Steven Feuerstein, you have a virtual expert at your fingertips to advise you on your code.

And, Code Reviews generate a quality and performance scorecard for your code. Toad for Oracle Professional includes a built-in PL/SQL and SQL knowledge base – Knowledge Xpert.

NOTE: Toad for Oracle Professional does not generate synchronization scripts (this feature is found in the Toad for Oracle DBA Module).

Available to Buy:

Toad 9.5 for Oracle Professional

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Toad for Oracle Xpert

Toad® for Oracle Xpert includes all of the features in Toad for Oracle Professional, plus integrated SQL performance tuning through SQL Optimizer's SQL Scanner.

This utility automatically identifies the SQL statements that may perform poorly in production. It then rewrites SQL for you and offers alternate implementations to improve performance.

Toad for Oracle Xpert can also generate virtual indexes and provide advice on the impact of changes to improve the performance of a set of SQL statements.

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Toad Development Suite for Oracle

Toad® Development Suite for Oracle provides an easy, automated way to leverage a wide range of Toad capabilities. It ensures high-quality applications that meet user requirements and perform reliably under production conditions.

The suite comprises Toad for Oracle Xpert, Quest Code Tester for Oracle and Benchmark Factory® for Databases. It helps you focus on three areas to deploy the best possible code to production:

• Develop code faster and with fewer bugs - utilize Quest Code Tester for Oracle, the first automated PL/SQL testing tool on the market, in concert with the Toad for Oracle Debugger
• Optimize SQL code with CodeXpert to simultaneously scan code and perform a code quality review- use SQL Optimizer to rewrite the SQL and ensure the delivery of efficient and easy-to-maintain code. Also, manage user options and window settings centrally with Group Policy Manager.
• Validate code using regression tests built during development with Quest Code Tester for Oracle - test code for performance and scalability under production-like conditions with Benchmark Factory for Databases.

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Toad for Oracle DBA Module

The Toad DBA Suite for Oracle simplifies common database administration tasks and helps DBAs become more proactive in solving database-related performance issues before they impact the production environment.

The Toad DBA Suite provides an integrated set of tools to ease database administration tasks, quickly diagnose problems and automate SQL tuning and optimization.

• Manage, synchronize and deploy schema changes
• Administer your databases – including users, roles, infrastructure and utilities
• Diagnose and resolve database performance issues in real time
• Identify problematic SQL statements directly from source code or execution in Oracle
• Optimize SQL statements automatically through SQL rewrite and indexing
• Manage database storage
• Perform and schedule checks of database instance health and security
• Replay database workload to simulate production environment in development/test databases

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SQL Navigator

• Overview of SQL Navigator
• Choose the best SQL Navigator for you
• Optional Add-on Modules

SQL Navigator® provides the tools you need to cut Oracle PL/SQL server-side development time in half.

PL/SQL development can be a tedious and time-consuming job – often monopolizing the valuable time and efforts of Oracle developers. SQL Navigator® is a PL/SQL development solution that streamlines workflow by adding a drag-and-drop, graphical user interface to the PL/SQL development environment.

SQL Navigator speeds the development of Oracle-based applications and combines coding, tuning, debugging, Web development and version control to deliver higher quality applications and save valuable time.

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Choose the SQL Navigator that is most suitable for your environment

Available to Buy:

SQL Navigator 5.5.4 Standard

Optional Add-on Modules:

Quest Software is proud to offer the following products as optional modules to SQL Navigator:

Knowledge Xpert ™ for PL/SQL

covers the lifecycle of Oracle PL/SQL programming, offering a wealth of technical knowledge, best practices and reusable examples. Thousands of topics provide the background information, syntax and working examples you need to apply solutions immediately. Includes PL/Vision, a robust code library with over 1,000 useful PL/SQL functions and procedures.

Knowledge Xpert™ for Oracle Administration

answers 70-80 percent of your daily Oracle administration questions instantly. Thousands of topics provide the background information, syntax and working examples you need to apply solutions immediately. Includes new "Database Analysis" feature that studies your database and delivers technical content "customized" for your environment.

Benchmark Factory for Database

Users can increase SQL Navigator's power and flexibility with Benchmark Factory for Databases, to test user load on your Oracle databases. The integrated add-on (optional) is a highly scalable load testing, capacity planning and performance tuning tool. Benchmark Factory® allows users to proactively evaluate how applications would perform when deployed with real activity; determines system capacity; pinpoints system bottlenecks; and isolates system stress related problems.

Toad Data Modeler

Quest Software's Toad Data Modeler helps organizations create, maintain and document their database systems with an easy-to-use graphical interface into new or existing database structures. Toad Data Modeler enables users to reverse engineer over 20 different databases, design and generate SQL, create HTML or RTF reports, and generate data flow diagrams, in addition to versioning of database designs and creation of to-do lists.

Quest Code Tester for Oracle

generates test code and run tests with the press of a button. Success or failure is computed automatically and presented to users via an easy to understand red light-green light display. As a result, Quest Code Tester for Oracle integrates PL/SQL testing directly into development, as a repeatable, verifiable process.

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