Toad for Oracle Unleashed

Summary

This chapter provided a fast-track introduction for customizing Toad to substantially enhance your productivity. Toad’s defaults are quite good and permit many users to hit the ground running; nonetheless a little time and effort to make Toad work your way is well worth the time invested. We started with simply organizing all of your database connections because most database work requires a connection, making this both a mandatory and recurring task. Next we examined customizing toolbars, menus, and keyboard shortcuts such that Toad looks, feels, and works the way you like. Then we covered automatic startup screens, files, and SQL commands or scripts that can automate certain critical tasks such as logging all Toad activity. Finally, ...