4. TOAD PL/SQL Editor
The PL/SQL Editor is a better editing environment for PL/SQL procedures, functions, packages, and database triggers than the SQL Editor described in Chapter 3. This editor contains a PL/SQL debugger, which is a full-featured symbolic debugger, and a profiler, which tells how long each line of PL/SQL code took to execute (critical information when you are tuning PL/SQL).
The PL/SQL Editor enables you to develop, save, run, debug, profile, and tune PL/SQL wherever it appears in applications or the database.
Basic Concepts of the PL/SQL Editor
TOAD provides a number of features that make PL/SQL development easy:
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Table and column select lists
• PL/SQL templates
• Options for creating and executing PL/SQL ...
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