RE: SQL Developer vs toad for oracle

This is kinda like asking a sniper to use a rifle from Walmart. Sure the both shoot straight, and the both do about the same thing, but the bottom line is that as developers and DBA's we have spent years fine tuning our productivity to work with the best tool for our job. Learning a new tool that has most of the functionality is much more expensive than the cost of Toad. Over the course of a year that it would take to get up to speed with SQL Developer, you will probably lose more than a week becoming familiar with it. What is the cost of a week of your time? At $200 billing per hour, that's $8,000.  Contrast the price of the full suite of Toad to the cost of our education, familiarity with our tools, and learning new tools, Toad is practically free.

It really doesn't matter what features the other tool has. This one is yours, you know how it feels in your hand, you know how to make it do what you want. This sounds like "This is my rifle..."

Not to mention you simply can't get better support for a product than the Toad for Oracle devs!!!!!!!

Chris

Disclaimer: I am not now or never have been in the military :)


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I have a client site where the customer is thinking of switching from Toad for Oracle Suite to SQL Developer because SQL Developer has all the tools needed. Before I  could argue that schema diff were one reason to stay with TOAD but now SQL Developer has it and the tool is free. What are some of the strongest cases to use to persuade my client to stay with TOAD. I am partial too, I love the tools but a certain group of consultants are pushing for SQL Developer.


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Author: madavis_us_375
Date: Tue Jan 17 12:52:03 PST 2012
I have a client site where the customer is thinking of switching from Toad for Oracle Suite to SQL Developer because SQL Developer has all the tools needed. Before I  could argue that schema diff were one reason to stay with TOAD but now SQL Developer has it and the tool is free. What are some of the strongest cases to use to persuade my client to stay with TOAD. I am partial too, I love the tools but a certain group of consultants are pushing for SQL Developer.

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