Dev art & great links in Toad Week (Toad Strong!)

“Everyone keeps taunting me with new beta features!”
32-bit Beta is here! & for newer folks, see amazing training resources below.
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Happy Friday! – A great day to learn and share.
Toad Week, Toad Strong!
Weekly tips to strengthen your use of Toad for Oracle
Dev Team
Frequently heard around the office, when I ask “Should I document this?”
“Our users are even smarter than we are.”
Beta users, please try this
Want to join our Beta users? Please go here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/toadbeta/

From Greg: “Try Code Analysis. Any feedback would be good.”
Go to Database | Diagnose | Code Analysis
(Idea Pond idea 530)

-          New ability to specify rules to ignore

-          You can export and import ignored rules from other locations.

From Mike Hamer, our newest Developer, myToad:
In a restaurant or at home?
Need to run a query?
No problem!
myToad lets you sync with Dropbox for access wherever you may be.

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First draft
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Second draft
To see Mark’s final version…

-          Go to Options | General and select:

-          Enable remote script execution

-          Sync user files
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-          Then sign up at MyToadBeta.toadworld.com<http://mytoadbeta.toadworld.com/>.

-          Type a query on the Ad hoc tab and execute!
The real myToad cloud-sync icon will appear on your task bar.
Try it, you’ll like it!
New Toadies
Pass on these online SQL training resources
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You were new once, too, and look at you now
For future Toad users of the world…
SQL Pocket Ref:
http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_quickref.asp
W3C has no-cost or registration, go-at-your-own-pace and try-as-you-go training there, too!
Anyone in your neighborhood need a new career? They can start learning SQL on YouTube (I highly recommend this).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUB113i_mzA
Power Users
Who’s a power user? You are!
Check this out from our Product Manager Amit’s blog:
Establishing code quality checkpoints with Code Analysis<http://toadworld.com/Blogs/tabid/67/EntryId/907/Establishing-Code-Quality-Checkpoints-with-Code-Analysis.aspx>

-          How Toad’s Code Analysis and Team Coding integrate to help development teams automate checkpoints for code quality while checking in code into the version control system.

-          How to configure Team Coding to enable code reviews during source code check-in

-          Enabling Code Quality throughout the database development lifecycle
This week’s tweet
Do you tweet yet? (I know, I know, but you can get good info.)
Tweet
[Quest_Toad]Quest_Toad ‏@Quest_Toad
Using the new features of MAKE CODE in Toad for Oracle 11.5.1
http://bit.ly/MVufCa<http://t.co/v5sYZiHG> via @Quest<https://twitter.com/#!/Quest>

Click the link in the tweet at left for Make Code screen-shots.
Follow me, I’ll follow you. ;)
https://twitter.com/#!/toadwriter
… @ToadWriter.



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Support tip
This week, we share an internal Support email:
In 11.5.1
To import csv files:

-          Go to Database | Import | Import Table Data

-          Select the table, click Show Data and click Next

-          Select the text file.

-          The label only says *.txt but if you browse for the file it also opens *.csv files.

-          If you select a csv file everything works (tested).

Export Dataset works the same. If you select a csv file as the output file the export  works as expected.

Favorite line from the lists

p.s. I've been a TOAD fan for over 10 years and really appreciate the many improvements to a wonderful product.
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“AHA!”
What functionality do you wish you had known about sooner? Email me<mailto:[email protected]?subject=AHA!> with “AHA!” in the subject line


Still Reading?
Contest
Check out three videos and make your own.
Pssst Our internal ones are even better…I hear they’ll be posted on Facebook next week.

http://www.facebook.com/questsoftware#!/questsoftware/app_202991206406825
From Stephen:
“I think it is interesting that we have some users running Toad on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
The total user count (reporting)  for Toad 11.5 is now 8,371with  290,369 Application Runs.”
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Encourage someone!
- Donna

Source of the future-looking toad photo; we took the liberty of adding sunglasses because you are all so cool.: http://www.digitalcinemareport.com/Sundance-Cane-Toads-Barco-Dolby
Source of Turbo thinking Cap clipart; a really cool education resource site: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/clip/thinkingcapwhoa_color.html


Donna D. Buskirk
Content Developer|Toad for Oracle Quest Software - Simplicity at Work | 919.650.4505 | www.quest.com<http://www.quest.com/>