Toad for Oracle Unleashed

Organizing Connections

In the last chapter you learned how to perform one of the most fundamental tasks that you’ll do over and over again—establish a database connection. Although that task might initially seem straightforward and easy, most people will need to work with dozens to even hundreds of database connections. Thus, organizing the connection screen is one of the first and easiest places to enhance your Toad experience and productivity. It’s quite easy and will pay ongoing dividends.

Look at the highlighted section of Figure 2.1, which shows the history of database connections saved. There are ten saved connection rows of data for five distinct users across three different databases. This scenario is not uncommon. In fact you may well ...