Hi Chris, 
 Thank you for your detailed response. I have forwarded it to our
Developers. It would be very helpful.. 
 Glad to know that you have contributed to the product's functionality.
 Thanks.

- Kirti Deshpande 
  Verizon Information Services
   http://www.superpages.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Spence [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 4:27 PM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject:      RE: TOAD v/s  PL/SQL Developer 
> 
> I have been using PL/SQL Developer for many years and put alot of
> functionality requests for some of the new features in the 3.x and 4.x
> product.  I would be more than happy to answer any questions you have
> about
> the product.
> 
> But to answer your question.  The debugger in PL/SQL developer simply
> rocks,
> single step in PL/SQL.  Toad has a few neat saved scripts that benefit DBA
> but most people have similar scripts saved already or more thorough
> monitoring.  Until version 4.x, export/import functionality was only
> available through oracle supplied tools, also the ability to output a
> table
> data into sql statements was only available to Toad.  4.0 PL/SQL developer
> has that functionality as well.
> PL/SQL developer has a fully SQL Plus compliant interactive shell, and a
> SQL
> Window which is more similar to the toad interface.  PL/SQL developer has
> a
> delphi/vb like code insight feature which rocks when looking at packages,
> schemas, objects you can't remember the exact package, argument, or column
> data type.  Toad I don't believe has this yet.  Toad is $750, PL/SQL
> developer is as low as $50 when buying 20 licenses and has excellent
> support.  Where Quest support on toad is marginal from what I hear (this
> statement I cannot back up as I never had to call them).  PL/SQL developer
> has a nice dual mode SQL*PLUS window, one for interactive, one for script
> building which is like an instant 'ed' in sqlplus which is accessable via
> a
> mouse click.   The single button access to Explain plan and statistics is
> great under  PL/SQL, which toad does, but not as easy to get to.  PL/SQL
> has
> a very customable browser of objects down to recent change to name an d
> schema which is really nice.  Both products allow multiple sessions under
> the current user which is great.  Toad has the option to add a tuner which
> PL/SQL developer does not have this option.  (Which I think Quest Vision
> Expert is more suitable for this anyway).  PL/SQL developer has a handy
> document menu which you can store documents commonly used (PDF's and DOCS)
> to have one click access to.  Toad has a few more built in dba options as
> menu items to do things like rebuild indexes and such.  PL/SQL Developer
> can
> do macros where Toad cannot.  PL/SQL Developer looks a little more upto
> date
> interface and has customizable tool bar.  Toad does have Proc agument
> feature, but it isn't as slick as PL/SQL Developers.
> 
> Sorry about the long email, just being thorough.
> 
> 
> "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if
> both are frozen."
> 
> Christopher R. Spence
> Oracle DBA
> Fuelspot 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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