Customers transitioning from a Term License to Toad Data Point Subscription want to ensure their existing user data—such as database connections, data sources, queries, layouts, automation workflows, and scheduled automation tasks—is preserved.
In environments where multiple previous Toad Data Point installations exist, customers may be uncertain how migration is handled, which version should be selected, or how scheduled automation behaves after the upgrade.
Toad Data Point Subscription introduces a newer licensing and execution model. On first launch, it scans the system to detect existing Toad Data Point installations and determines whether user data should be migrated.
If more than one previous installation is detected, user input is required to select the appropriate source for migration. During this process, automation and scheduled tasks are updated to execute using the Toad Data Point Subscription executable.
On first launch, Toad Data Point Subscription will:
If more than one previous installation is detected:
✅ Recommended Action:
Select the most recently used Toad Data Point (Term License) installation and proceed with the migration.
The automatic migration process includes:
Automation definitions and scheduling configurations are migrated to the Subscription edition. Migrated scheduled tasks are updated to run using the Toad Data Point Subscription executable in Windows Task Scheduler.
After migration completes, validate the following:
Quest recommends validating all automations after migration:
If issues are encountered after upgrading:
Important:
If scheduled automation tasks were migrated, rollback of scheduled tasks must be performed manually.
During migration, scheduled automation tasks are updated to use the Toad Data Point Subscription executable in Windows Task Scheduler. Rolling back scheduled automation requires:
This ensures scheduled automations execute under the intended Toad Data Point version.
