Toad for MySQL 7.7 - Installation Guide

Uninstall Toad

If you uninstall Toad, it may not uninstall completely. When you use Toad, you create new files such as SQL scripts, data output, or temp files, etc. The following types of files are not removed when you uninstall:

• Any new files you create
• Any copies of files you make for backup purposes
• Settings files

You can uninstall Toad for MySQL by using the Installer or by using the Windows Add/Remove Programs (or Uninstall a program) feature. Using the Installer is the preferred way to uninstall Toad for MySQL.

To uninstall Toad

1. Run the ToadInstaller.exe.
2. Select Uninstall Toad for MySQL only.
3. Complete the wizard.

Licensing

To enter your license key

1. Select Help | Licensing from the menu (ALT+H+L).

2. Review the following for additional information:

   Authorization key	Enter the license key for Toad.
   Site message	Enter the site message included with the license key.

   Note: Your license key determines the edition of Toad  and will enable the functionality accordingly. In many cases, if functionality is disabled within Toad, you may not have an appropriate license to use it. When Toad is running, you can see which components are licensed by selecting Help | About. For complete list of features shipped with your Toad edition see http://quest.com/.

Create and Troubleshoot Connections

Understand Toad Connections

Review this topic to learn about open database connections in Toad.

Toad Open Connections

In Toad, an open connection in the Connection/Navigation Manager represents one or more actual connections to the database. When you open a database connection in Toad:

• Toad creates an initial database connection for general use.

• Toad also creates a separate database connection for each Editor (the first time you execute a statement) and for each Data tab in the Database Explorer (the first time you select the tab and query data).

  The connection associated with the window (or tab) remains open until you close the window. If a window has an associated connection, but a statement is not currently executing, the connection is in an inactive state.

To view information for an open connection

• To view the number of actual database connections that exist for a Toad connection, including the number of active connections, place the cursor over the connection in the Connection/Navigation Manager pane or in the connection drop-down list.

To use the Background Processes pane

• When a statement is executing, a progress bar displays in the Status bar located at the bottom of the Toad application window. Click the executing progress bar to open the Background Processes pane.

• To cancel statement execution, use the Background Processes pane.

  Note: It is recommended that you cancel only your own processes, because terminating Toad activities could cause unexpected behavior.

Sharing a Connection Among Windows

You can instruct Toad to share an open connection among windows. In this way, the Editor windows and Data tabs can share the same connection when the connection is inactive.

To share a database connection among windows in Toad

1. Select Tools | Options | Editor | General.

2. Clear the checkbox for the Use individual connection for each open editor option.

3. When this option is not selected, Toad attempts to use a single connection for any new windows or query execution. For example, if you share a database connection, you can execute a query in the Editor, execute another query in a new Editor, and then select the Data tab from the same connection.

   If the single connection is in use when Toad attempts to execute it, the following occurs:

   • If your database does not support executing multiple queries on a shared connection, a dialog prompts you to either permanently associate the window with a new database connection, cancel the previous operation, or add the query to a queue until the current operation completes, and the execute it. If you place multiple queries in the queue, each one executes in the order that it was added to the queue.

Note: Although you can share a database connection, any commits apply to the selected window only.