System Requirements

This section contains the hardware, software, and privileges required to run Toad for Oracle, as well as the database and virtual environments that Toad for Oracle supports.

Hardware requirements

Database requirements

Network

• Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is being adopted by the US Federal Government and industries around the world. In its most basic format, the new protocol uses 128-bit addresses instead of 32-bit addresses, which are used by the current IPv4 to route packets over the Internet. Toad for Oracle features, such as FTP, access the Internet through third-party vendors that are IPv6 compliant, such as /nSoftware's IP*Works. For access to Web sites by way of the Toad Online window, Toad simply invokes the user-defined or default Web browser.
• Toad for Oracle Subscription licenses require the user to sign in when using the product. This enables the product to verify the user's identity and to check that they are entitled to use the subscription. To complete this entitlement check internet access is required to connect to Quest Software's Licensing Servers.
• Toad for Oracle on Windows 64-bit includes Quest Auto Update, a service that periodically checks for and delivers product updates. Quest Auto Update requires internet access and must be able to reach the cloud service at https://autoupdate.toadworld.com.

Additional requirements

Virtualization support

Windows Privileges

In order to install and run Toad, make a connection, and do basic operations, you must have the following privileges.

Product Licensing

Trial licensing

A free 30-day trial license is automatically provided to new users after you sign in to Toad for Oracle with your Quest account.

To activate a trial

1. Download and install Toad for Oracle from https://www.quest.com/products/toad-for-oracle/

2. Open Toad and click Sign In or Start Free Trial to sign in

   Note: You will need to sign up for a Quest account if you do not have one.

To purchase a commercial license

1. Click Buy Now on the trial banner displayed at the top of Toad
2. Select the edition that is right for you and complete your purchase using the same email address used for your Quest account
3. After receiving your purchased license, open Help | Licensing and click Refresh

Subscription licensing

Open Toad and select Sign In or Start Free Trial to sign in with your Quest account. Any Toad for Oracle subscription licenses associated with your account will be retrieved automatically.

For detailed instructions on license management, including how to activate an online managed license for offline use, see the Licensing Tutorial at https://www.quest.com/video/licensing-tutorial-in-toad-for-oracle.

Offline licensing

You can apply offline license files (.xml) and legacy offline licenses (with a license key and site message) in Toad using the Help | Licensing window or from the sign in dialog.

For detailed instructions on license management, see the Licensing Tutorial at https://www.quest.com/video/licensing-tutorial-in-toad-for-oracle.

Getting Started with Toad

Getting started with Toad for Oracle

Toad for Oracle is distributed in the Toad for Oracle Editions at https://support.quest.com/download-product-select.

Upgrade and installation instructions

Please refer to the Toad for Oracle Installation Guide at https://support.quest.com/technical-documents for installation and upgrade instructions.

Upgrades for Toad for Oracle can install side-by-side with any previous versions you have installed. You can run the new and previous versions concurrently.

The first time you run the new version of Toad, the settings files from the previous version are automatically imported. To start with a clean set of user files, go to Utilities | Manage User Settings..., then select Reset to a clean set of user files from the base installation.

Note: Toad supports importing settings only if the new version is within two releases of the previous version. If your versions are more than two releases apart, you need to install an intermediate version to successfully import the files.

User instructions

To get started with using Toad for Oracle, see the Guide to Using Toad at https://support.quest.com/technical-documents. For detailed information about any Toad window or feature, see the online help, which can be accessed from the Help menu.

Additional resources

Additional information is available from the Toad for Oracle Community on Toad World:

https://www.toadworld.com/products/toad-for-oracle

Globalization

Global Operation Statement

This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English configurations, such as those needed by customers outside of North America. This section does not replace the materials about supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.

This release was not enabled and tested for international operation. Only U.S. English configurations of this product and U.S. English datasets are fully supported. Support for non-ASCII characters or non-English configurations may work appropriately, but these configurations have not been tested and this release should be used with caution in these environments.

This release has the following known capabilities or limitations: Toad is a Unicode application. As such, it has support for any Oracle Unicode character set, such as UTF8 or AL32UTF8. There are some features in Toad which use or invoke Oracle Utilities or applications which are not themselves Unicode applications. Their functionality is therefore limited to the character set of the client on which Toad is running, and NLS_LANG must be carefully set to match the Windows character set

We have also observed issues with US7ASCII when used with non Latin characters.