We performed a comparison between Redgate SQL Toolbelt and Toad for Oracle based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."The most valuable feature is SQL Search."
"It is easy to track the reports, this is what is most valuable for me."
"The most valuable feature is the navigation within the UI, where you can right-click on an object in an SQL query and go right to it, versus going through all of the menus to find what you are looking for."
"The tool evaluates non-optimized queries and generates the queries in a way that is more optimal - in addition to giving us some good practices for code development."
"I like that it's very flexible and helpful in query accuracy, analysis, and data visualization. I also like the move facilities available in Toad for Oracle. Overall, I think it's a fantastic product for analyzing SQL queries and managing all kinds of queries."
"I find Toad easy to use and I love the Workspace feature, which allows me to set up projects so that I can open SQL files applicable to what I am working on at any particular time."
"A quite simple feature that I have not encountered elsewhere is the "Make Code" feature. I can easily export a complex SQL statement to a programming language. This is a great timesaver as I do not have to type in all of the escape/concatenation characters just to create a SQL statement in C# or C++."
"I haven't seen any issues with scalability. We have about 1000 people on our IT team who use the solution."
"Oracle has advanced query optimization and tuning features that help improve the performance of SQL queries."
"Toad has a lot of features that are very useful, fast, and well developed."
"I would like to see the bandwidth increase allowing me to easily analyze more data."
"The biggest problem with the Redgate SQL Toolbelt is just how heavy it is; it seems to take a lot of resources."
"I'd like reporting to be more available. If it was a feature that was already installed, more people would take advantage of it."
"It would be better if they had an online option allowing me to connect from anywhere on any device. Sometimes I face some errors, depending on the network and setup. It's not a big issue."
"An area where the solution could use some improvement is in terms of user-friendliness. During the initial setup phase, the solution was not very intuitive when attempting to establish connections."
"The way the dialog boxes appear can be improved."
"I would like to see an improvement in the performance because opening the browser and the editor should be faster."
"Improvement wise, for the user it should show the minimum features on the screen and not all the features. Toad has a lot of features, but most users will use only 5 or 10 based on their role. Nobody needs all the features, and they should provide the option to choose only the required features. Only minimum requirements should be enabled by default. When all the features are shown, the performance is not good; it loads slowly and has hundreds of popups and unnecessary questions."
"In future releases, the product can be more intuitive. It has to be lighter than what it is because sometimes it is not responding quickly. If I do some features at the same time, it's not supporting. I have to wait sometimes to get the action. It's dependent on the resources of the workstation, but it has to be improved in this area. The faster processing is needed."
"There should also be a better "cancel query" option as sometimes one cancels a query, but then it still might run for a long time, and then one has to crash Toad in order to cancel the query."
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Redgate SQL Toolbelt is ranked 7th in Database Development and Management while Toad for Oracle is ranked 3rd in Database Development and Management with 15 reviews. Redgate SQL Toolbelt is rated 8.0, while Toad for Oracle is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Redgate SQL Toolbelt writes "SQL Search and change automation functionality help us manage our code repository and databases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Toad for Oracle writes "Advanced query optimization and tuning features ". Redgate SQL Toolbelt is most compared with Quest Spotlight, DBmaestro Database Source Control, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server, SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer and SQL Sentry, whereas Toad for Oracle is most compared with Toad Edge, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Aqua Data Studio, DbVisualizer and Quest Foglight for Databases.
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