Toad Data Modeler Reviews

This product is fast to learn and a user-friendly tool. It's most valuable to me because of its great shortcuts. It really helps on development time. You can even define some quick assist codes and prefixes. Also, you can use this tool for comparing files, debugging, FTP file transfer, etc.

Whatever database issues I have faced, I have solved them with the Quest Toad product.

Maybe it could be optimized by using less RAM memory. Also, this product may have stability issues.

I have been using different versions of Toad since 2010. I've been using this version since March 2017.

Yes, I have still been facing some issues. Currently, with Windows 10, it sometimes would get stuck and stop responding. I am guessing it is something about the RAM usage. When this happens, I have to open task manager/stop process and it is frustrating because you might lose some uncompiled DB objects code.

I have worked with this product on Oracle 9i, 10g, and 11g. My operating system is Windows. It was fun to work with them. I don't know about Oracle 12c or running it on a Linux platform.

I haven't asked for technical support before this, but Toad user forums show good solutions and tips for the product.

I have tried Oracle SQL Developer before, but I prefer to use Toad. It really is faster to build solutions with Toad.

It is straightforward. Initial setup requires an Oracle Client installed on the machine. Other than that, it's nowhere near complex.

I'm a developer and don't know much about pricing. The license is on our company, but I guess it's the most expensive database IDE.

Just tried Oracle SQL Developer and Toad for Oracle. I would definitely choose Toad.

This is our main SQL tool; everything is there and makes it efficient and easy to perform the needed tasks on the database. I have it open every day.

TOAD makes it easy to code and compile stored procedures. It is easy to find and edit code, and offers the ability to debug and test. It is a great tool that saves a lot of time. The real advantage is that it has a lot of components all in one tool, and you don’t need to open or use other apps or the command line.

The one thing about it is that there are almost too many features and options; some we don’t even use. It can be overwhelming at first, but once the initial learning curve is over, it is not bad.

For example, we don’t use the automation designer or the query builder.
Query builder is a graphical interface to build SQL (drag and drop), but once you have good skills at writing in the editor, it is much faster and you have more control than with the query builder.

I have been using it for the last five years.

I rarely encountered any stability issues; it is very stable.

I didn’t encounter any scalability issues at all.

Technical support is excellent, very responsive. They have a great online and built-in technical help, and manuals as well.

I had a question on a thread setting and had a very positive experience.
I was not able to find anything on this setting in the online help, so I opened a case and was able to get all the details needed.

Prior to TOAD, we had to use many other apps for testing, compiling code or even the Oracle command line. TOAD eliminates the need to open or use other tools.

• Data comparison
• Imports from various sources

Reverse engineering the physical schema is complex and can be made easier. Schema diagrams which depict relationship is clumsy when the schema is complex. Presenting the complex schema in Toad with clear relationship between tables, etc.

I've used it for over six years.

Just some minor niggling issues.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

9/10

9/10

I've used Toad from the beginning.

It wasn't complex.

We did it in-house.

We should be able to do it within two to three months.

It depends on your requirements and number of users.

No other options were evaluated.

Look for comparatively ETL tools available in market and you pick the one which suits your needs.

I am able to develop the back-end database functionality and look up schema information when we are having design meetings. It really is the software that we are developing/maintaining that is the improvement for the business.

Better documentation would be a benefit.

I’ve used Toad for most of the last seven years, but that really doesn’t make me an expert by any means.

No issues encountered.

Generally no, although I have had a couple minor issues with large scripts and memory errors.

No issues encountered.

I haven't had to use it.

I haven't had to use it.

No previous solution was used.

The only hassle was the EUA process.

In-house, via an EUA request, and we used a software center to install.

I don't know the financials, but I wouldn’t be able to do my job (build applications/databases) without it.

It works well for Oracle design and development.

It was immensely helpful in collecting SQL database data, especially as I am not a database admin/engineer. Also, the GUI interface has good ease of use for pulling queries and creating links between tables to pull specific server information in a timely manner for someone who may not have database experience.

It allowed us a better look at the big picture of the state of our server environment.

I've not used a product that I could compare it with.

I used it for a month.

The program did not crash or have other intermittent problems or issues. It worked as expected.

The program worked flawlessly whether pulling information for 10 or 1000 servers.

I didn't need to contact them.

I didn't need to contact them.

This is the only solution I've used.

Corporate standard installation process was as expected and went smoothly. It was a standard windows client installation, which connected without issues to our asset management database on the mainframe.

We did an in-house standard corporate windows client application installation.

I was not involved in the purchase agreement, from a personal point of view, a good working tool is well worth it if priced competitively.

I did not. My role was as an end user, not of evaluation.

See if the program features meet your task, do so with competitive pricing and their history of quality customer / technical service provided.

• Report/Query automation
• Cross database queries
• Ability to query multiple data sets

• It's moved us away from MS Access.
• Automated report processing

We sometimes have issues with multiple nested queries. They take a long time to run, and it would be nice to have them run faster.

I've used it for seven years.

It was a bit tedious to set up the computers that run the software. We needed to download Oracle thin client, and set up computer variables. It took a while to do so.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

It's very good.

From Good to very good, depending on who you get to help you.

MS Access. We switched because we were accessing an Oracle DB in the cloud with lots of data. Access needed to download the data in order to process queries which ended up either taking forever or not working at all. Toad allowed us to run the query on the cloud DB and, return data from the query. Made things much faster.

It was a bit tedious to set up the computers that run the software. We needed to download Oracle thin client and set up computer variables. Took a while to do so.

We did it in-house.

Each license costs a bit of money, and you need to purchase maintenance for each license in order to get updates and use tech support.

• MS Access
• Crystal Reports

To begin with, it’s got a simple to use yet robust GUI. It’s so easy to connect to any database, and it can connect to heterogeneous DB’s including flat-files.

Querying could not be any easier (Query Builder), as well as learning an optimistic way of writing a query that is generated after selection from simple drag and drop. The wide variety of selections it offers, from data analysis, entity relationships, highlighting reserved words to help understand the query easily, drop-down to pick tables, column names, and explaining the plan for performance tuning the Query and many more are also valuable.

We used it extensively for data profiling, database management, data modelling, and data quality checks, apart from few other features. So, every time we needed to debug error in data, Toad proved extensively handy. Reusable queries help in faster debugging, and the data management has saved us a lot of time and money.

Although a lot of people get deceived by the name “Data Analysis”, it has capacity of any enterprise tool, but not to the point of creating multiple pipes in one integrated work-flow, batching the work-flows and running them parallel for data loads.

I've used it for about three years.

I did not use Toad for any code or data deployment.

No. It is a very stable and high capacity tool. At one point, I could have 10 query windows open and would be connected to three databases at the same time, and not have a sign of instability.

No. Toad can handle large volumes of data with ease, helps maneuver around result data sets by click of mouse and it’s instantaneous with results.

Personally I have never had the need to call customer service. Most of the features I used were self-explanatory, and so understanding it was very easy.

I have not had the need to call tech support either. I've never had any issues that required approaching Toad tech support, but I’m sure given the reputation, it must be good. Even if there was a problem, the error log is pretty simple to understand, and figure out what caused the problem.

I used SwisSQL data migration 5.0 and Oracle Developer. I wanted to connect to different databases, and be able to query across them, and Toad was perfect for that.

It was extremely easy to install, and once installed, I just needed a few things to connect to database, and I was all set. Very efficient tool.

It was done in-house. I used it in two different organizations, and both places had it already set up.

Toad is 100% value for money product. Especially for the features it offers vs. the price, it is totally worth it.

If I have to manage a data warehouse project, Toad would be my first pick given the pricing it offers for the features. And, from a start-up to a large scale company, from five to 100 licenses, the pricing is a golden bargain.

• i-Series Navigator
• Oracle Developer
• SQL Plus
• SQL Pro

For any organization looking for a clean and robust all-in-one data tool, Toad is a good product to choose. There are a lot of tools in the market that promise a lot of things, but you will not be disappointed using Toad.

Mostly the database administration feature.

Database slowness was an issue, but Toad helps us to find the ADDM, AWR and stats-pack reports very quickly. It's a cool product enriched with a lot of excellent features.

I've been using it for 10 years.

I've never had any issues.

Sometimes, Toad crashes without a clue as to why, and it needs an immediate restart.

No issues encountered.

8/10.

8/10.

We started with Toad, and stayed with it.

It was very simple.

It's very straightforward.

100%.

It's a must-buy, and both pricing and licensing is well in the range of every organization.

Among others, we looked at SQLDeveloper and FogLight.

You should implement this product.