Release Notes

Toad^® for Oracle 13.3

Release Notes

Revised 3/3/2020

About Toad for Oracle

Toad for Oracle provides an intuitive and efficient way for database professionals of all skill and experience levels to perform their jobs with an overall improvement in workflow effectiveness and productivity. With Toad for Oracle you can:

• Understand your database environment through visual representations
• Meet deadlines easily through automation and smooth workflows
• Perform essential development and administration tasks from a single tool
• Deploy high-quality applications that meet user requirements; perform predictably and reliably in production
• Validate database code to ensure the best-possible performance and adherence to best-practice standards
• Manage and share projects, templates, scripts, and more with ease

The Toad for Oracle solutions are built for you, by you. Nearly two decades of development and feedback from various communities like Toad World have made it the most powerful and functional tool available. With an installed-base of over two million, Toad for Oracle continues to be the “de facto” standard tool for database development and administration.

Toad for Oracle resources

Toad World is a unique and valuable resource available to all Toad users. Toad World provides forums, blogs, videos, product information, Beta releases (when available), and Trial downloads for Toad products. Visit Toad World at: https://www.toadworld.com.

Two of the most-often used features of Toad World are the Forums and the Idea Pond.

• On the Idea Pond page, you can submit your ideas to improve Toad and vote for or comment on other ideas. The Toad team takes your suggestions seriously, and you may even hear back from one of our developers on the topic. We encourage all Toad users—from new to experienced—to let us know how we can improve Toad.
• On the Forum page, you can ask a question or start a discussion and view all other forums within the Toad community.

The Toad World blog pages feature a broad range of information, including topics of interest to our industry, as well as instructions from team members on how to use the latest Toad features.

The Toad for Oracle web-based training is a perfect accompaniment to your product license. This free training walks you through major product features and explains how to perform frequent tasks. You’ll also see how to utilize time-saving automation functionality. You’ll receive a certificate of completion for each course once you pass the accompanying test.

About this release

Toad for Oracle 13.3 includes component and requirement upgrades. These upgrades address security vulnerabilities previously identified in the third party component.

About Toad^® for Oracle^® Editions

Each Toad for Oracle Edition is packaged with additional Quest products to expand your experience. The following products may be part of your Toad for Oracle Edition:

• Toad for Oracle 13.3
• Benchmark Factory for Databases
• Code Tester for Oracle
• Spotlight on Oracle
• SQL Optimizer for Oracle
• Toad Data Modeler

The following Toad for Oracle Editions are available:

Note: The DB Admin Module can be added to any Toad Edition.

For more information about the products in your Toad for Oracle Edition and the minimum system requirements for running these products, see the Toad for Oracle Editions release notes at: https://support.quest.com/technical-documents

New Features and Enhancements

Toad for Oracle 13.3

Table Data

Copy Table Data

When copying table data to another table you can select a subset of source table columns from which to copy. Only data in the selected columns will be copied to the destination table. Copy Table Data is accessible from the Schema Browser Tables view right-click menu (Data | Copy to another schema).

Note: Copy Table Data is also accessible from the Automation Designer (Utilities | Automation Designer).

Import Table Data

Improved detection of field breaks when importing table data from fixed width text files (Database | Import | Import Table Data).

Note: Import Table Data is also accessible from the Automation Designer (Utilities | Automation Designer).

Automation Designer

Export Dataset Action

If the dataset is a SQL file containing multiple SELECT statements, Toad will generate one file per statement. If the destination is Excel File then Toad will generate a new sheet per statement.

Similarly, if the dataset is SQL text then multiple SELECT statements results in multiple files.

File / List Iterator Actions

Support for multiple variable values per line, separated by a delimiter of your choosing. Values are referenced within child actions using the fully qualified variable name which is the action name and the 1-based value index, e.g. %MyFileIterator.1%.

Schema Browser

Tables View, Partitioning Tab

Row Select option added to right-click menu. Row Select is enabled, by default.

Generate Schema Script

Generate Schema Script (Database | Export | Generate Schema Script) has added support for ANALYTIC VIEW, ATTRIBUTE DIMENSION, HIERARCHY, and INMEMORY JOIN GROUP object types.

Toad^® Script Runner

The SYSASM, SYSKM, SYSDG, and SYSBACKUP administrative privileges are now supported.

Enhancements from Idea Pond

The following is a list of enhancements submitted by Toad for Oracle users through Idea Pond and implemented in this release.

The Toad for Oracle Idea Pond on Toad World is a site where you can submit your ideas to improve Toad and vote or comment on ideas submitted by other users. The Toad development team has always been driven by Toad customers, and Idea Pond makes it easy for you to tell us what changes are most important.

• To visit Idea Pond, log in to the Toad Forums at: https://forums.toadworld.com. Select the Categories tab. Then click Idea Pond in the Toad for Oracle category.

Discontinued Features

Knowledge Xpert. Knowledge Xpert is no longer available on Toad World. Beginning with release 13.1, Toad components no longer reference the online Knowledge Xpert.

Ask a Question. The Go to Toad World and Ask a Question commands on the Toad World toolbar have been replaced. To ask a question, click the Forums toolbar button to go directly to the forum. To go to Toad World, click the Forums or the Browse Blogs toolbar buttons. You can also use the Help menu: Help | Toad World | Forums. This change is found in Toad for Oracle 13.1 or later.

Integration with Toad Intelligence Central. Beginning with Toad for Oracle 13.1, Toad no longer provides integration with Toad Intelligence Central. The Toad Intelligence Central window is not available and you cannot publish scripts, files, Code Analysis results, and other resources to a Toad Intelligence Central server using Toad for Oracle. You cannot connect to Toad Intelligence Central through Toad for Oracle.