Take a Sneak Peek of Day One at Quest EMPOWER
Quest® EMPOWER, November 1-2, 2022, is a free, online summit designed to inspire and give you new data strategies that will help you move your organization forward in its journey to being truly data-d...
How to unlock an account in the Oracle database
This article explains how we can unlock a user account in an Oracle database. As a database administrator, managing the security of the database is a crucial task. The DBAs must keep track of all succ...
Quest cleans up at the 2022 DBTA Readers’ Choice Awards
The results of the 2022 DBTA Readers’ Choice Awards are in and Quest® solutions have been named as winners and finalists in seven categories. We’re thrilled with the results but what means the most to...
What is the Oracle lock table function, and how does it work?
This article will talk about an important function that we need to understand when working with an Oracle database, the Oracle LOCK TABLE. First of all, Oracle blocks information based on the transact...
Using a SQL Alias
Before learning how to find a database alias using Toad for Oracle, it is essential to understand what an alias is in SQL. What is a SQL alias? SQL database aliases are used to give a table,...
What is a DDL Script, and why it is useful
This article explains what DDL scripts are and how to use them. The script can contain various PL/SQL DDL commands used to create database objects and establish the relations between them. The abbrevi...
Quest EMPOWER 2022: Meet our featured speakers
Start planning now to attend Quest EMPOWER 2022 We’re excited to announce Quest EMPOWER 2022, a free two-day online summit designed to inspire you and help you identify new strategies to move your dat...
Advanced Table Joins and Data Sorting with Toad Data Point
Introduction Table joins are a helpful function to get familiar with in Toad Data Point. What happens if you need to relate two different rows within the same table? In the EMP table, we have employee...
Get more out of your Oracle data by replicating to MySQL and PostgreSQL
Growth of open-source databases Database developers and DBAs have been using open-source databases, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, for years. The platforms are mature, offer flexibility with low lic...
Toad Training: 30 minutes, 1st and 2nd Tuesdays each month
It’s double the fun when you attend Quest® Toad® for Oracle and Toad Data Point free training! Get personalized tech advice from industry experts in our Toad Training Tuesdays. Our tech gurus are t...
SharePlex Skills 101 Webcast Series
Our NEW webcast series is directed specifically at existing SharePlex product users. We call the series, “SharePlex Skills 101”, where we present topics that have a broad interest among administrators...
Using SQL Server Data Encryption in Toad for SQL Server
SQL Server supports data encryption to encrypt, or obfuscate, data so that confidential data may be protected. Data encryption is provided using Transact-SQL functions, passwords, cryptographic keys, ...