Toad provides many ways for you to customize the interface to suit your work style and improve your productivity. Most areas of the interface are customizable, from the toolbars and menus, to the grids and workspace itself. You can also set custom defaults for actions, commands, and other tasks that Toad performs for you.
Welcome to Toad
Toad Resources
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Toad Advisor
Toad World
Toad Web-based Training
Retrieve License Keys
Create Support Bundles
Required Privileges
Create and Manage Database Connections
About Database Connections
Create or Edit a Connection
Save Connection Passwords
Import/Export Connection Settings
Automatically Connect on Startup
Use Previous Connections
Change Active Connection in Window
Test Connections
End Connections
Commit or Rollback Changes
Editor Basics
About the Editor
About the Output Window
About the Results Grids
Toggle Fullscreen Editor
Open and Save Files
Change Current Schema
Find text in the Editor
Create a Find and Replace Macro
Use Bookmarks
Find in Files
Move Between Editor Tabs
Automatically Back Up the Editor
Use an External Editor
Schema Browser Basics
About the Schema Browser
View Icon Legend
Automatically Refresh the Data Grid
Create Schema Browser Filters
Create Default Schema Browser Filters
Apply Saved Schema Browser Filters
Quick-filter the Left-hand Side
Filter Data in the Schema Browser
Clear Filters
Data Grid Basics
About Data Grids
Anchor Column in Data Grid
Hide Columns
Understand Time Values
Sort and Group Data
Find in Grid
Filter Data
Preview Selected Column
Include Row Numbers
Copy Column Names to the Clipboard
Work with Data
Understand Editable Resultsets
Copy Data to Another Schema
Compare Data
Review Differences
Compare Data Duplicates
Insert/Delete Rows
Post/Revert Edited Data
Edit Data in Popup Editor
Perform Calculations on Grid Cells
Use the Calculator
Work with Database Objects
Describe Objects
Find in Objects
Copy Objects to Another Schema
Create or Alter Objects
Use Existing Object as Template for New Objects
Drop (Delete) Objects
Flashback Tables (Recover Dropped Tables)
View Parent/Child Datasets
View/Modify Privileges
Configure Grantees
Look Up Foreign Keys
Compare Objects
Rebuild Objects
Work with Code
Write Statements and Scripts
Customize your Toad Environment
Use the Code Navigator
Use the Object Palette
Use Code Completion Templates
Create Make Code Templates
Use Code Snippets
Use a Pick List to Complete Code
Use Query Templates
Format Code
Highlight Statements
Fold Code Segments
Change Text to Upper or Lower Case
Swap with Previous Line
View File Differences
Preview Query Results
Save Query Results
Copy Statements between Toad and Development Tools
View Code Statistics
Work with the Query Builder
About the Query Builder
How to use the Model Area
Build a Query
Create a Sub-Query
Populate the Where Clause
Populate the Having Clause
Use the Generated Query
Saving Toad Query Results
Execute Statements and Scripts
About Executing Scripts
Execute Single Statements
Execute Scripts in the Editor
Execute SQL with SQL*Plus
Save Statements (SQL Recall)
Work with PL/SQL Objects
Load Database Object
Reload Object
Create New PL/SQL Object
Extract Procedures
Generate DBMS Output
Execute SQL Statements within PL/SQL
Execute PL/SQL
Debug
About Debugging
Debug PL/SQL
Analyze Code
Optimize SQL
Minimum Oracle Database Requirements
Start Debugging
Set Parameters
Set Parameters in Triggers
Handle Dependencies
Call Stack Window
Stop the Debugger
Prepare PL/SQL Code for Production
View Debug Results
Use DBMS Output
Create and Run Unit Tests
Debug Scripts
Set Breakpoints
Set Watches
Customize Connections
Customize Workspaces
Use Shortcut Keys
Customize Toolbars, Menus and Commands
Use Other Quest Software Products with Toad
Enable Self-Configuring Menus
Show/Hide Toolbars
Rename Toolbars, Menus or Commands
Create New Toolbars, Menus and Commands
Add, Reorder and Remove Commands
Show Additional Menus
Delete a Menu
Reset Default Toolbars
Lock Toolbars
Effect of Upgrades on Customizations
Customize the Editor
Customize the Schema Browser
Customize Schema Drop-Downs
Customize Workspaces
Customize the Toad Interface
About Workspaces
A Workspace is a customized set of windows and connections in Toad that you can name and save. Multiple Workspaces are supported.
You can open one workspace to work in a specific environment, such as Testing, and then quickly switch to another one, such as Development, without having to open one set of windows and connections and close the other.
You can create your own or use the starter Workspace named "Default Workspace." It is initially empty (that is, contains no windows or connections). This Workspace is the only one which cannot be deleted.
Create Custom Workspaces
When you create different workspaces, you can easily resume work in the correct context as soon as you open Toad. Create as many workspaces as you need.
To create a Workspace
- Right-click in the main Toad toolbar then select Workspaces to make certain the Workspaces toolbar is shown.
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In the Workspace toolbar, click
to name and save your Workspace. Your open windows and connections are saved and will be reestablished the next time you open this Workspace.
To open a saved Workspace
- Select the workspace from the Workspaces toolbar.
When you open a saved Workspace, you are notified that open connections that are not part of this workspace will be closed. Save any changes that you want to keep before closing those windows and connections.
To save changes to your Workspace configuration
- Click
To rename a Workspace
- Click
to rename the current workspace.
To sort Workspaces
- Workspaces are sorted in the list alphabetically, by default. To toggle this feature on or off, select Options | Toolbars/Menus | Toolbars and select or clear the Sort workspaces alphabetically check box.
Use Shortcut Keys
Customize the Toad Interface
Toad provides many ways for you to customize the interface to suit your work style and improve your productivity. Most areas of the interface are customizable, from the toolbars and menus, to the grids and workspace itself. You can also set custom defaults for actions, commands, and other tasks that Toad performs for you.