Toad™ for Oracle® 12.8
Release Notes
October 2015
About Toad for Oracle
About this release
About Toad for Oracle 2015 Suites Release 2
New features
Enhancements from Toad Idea Pond
Resolved issues
Known issues
System requirements
Product licensing
Getting started with Toad
Globalization
About Dell
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:
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Understand your database environment through visual representations
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Meet deadlines easily through automation and smooth workflows
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Perform essential development and administration tasks from a single tool
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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 bestpractice standards
Manage and share projects, templates, scripts, and more with ease
The Toad for Oracle solutions are built for you, by you. Over 15 years of development and feedback from various
communities like Toad World have made it the most powerful and functional tool available. With an installedbase of over two million, Toad for Oracle continues to be the “de facto” standard tool for database
development and administration.
Toad for Oracle 12.8
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About this release
Toad for Oracle12.8 is a minor release, with enhanced features and functionality.
About Toad for Oracle 2015 Suites
Release 2
All commercial versions of Toad are bundled with additional Dell Software products, based upon the license
that you purchased. These bundles are known as Suites (formerly known as Editions) and include the following:
Toad for Oracle Base Edition
Toad for Oracle Professional Edition
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Toad™ for Oracle ®
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Toad for Oracle ® Professional
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Toad™ Data Modeler (free use)
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Toad™ Data Modeler (free use)
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Toad™ for MySQL Freeware
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Toad™ for MySQL Freeware
Toad for Oracle Xpert Edition
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Toad for Oracle ® Xpert
Includes all features in Base and Professional
Editions
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SQL Optimizer for Oracle ®
Toad for Oracle DBA Suite
Toad for Oracle Development Suite
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Toad for Oracle ® Xpert
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Code Tester for Oracle ®
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Benchmark Factory™ for Databases - Oracle ®
Edition
Toad for Oracle DBA Suite - RAC Edition
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Toad for Oracle ® Xpert
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Toad for Oracle ® Xpert
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DB Admin Module Add-on
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DB Admin Module Add-on
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Spotlight™ on Oracle ®
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Includes Spotlight on Unix/Linux, Spotlight on
Windows, and Spotlight on Oracle Data Guard
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Benchmark Factory™ for Databases - Oracle ®
Suite
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Spotlight™ on Oracle ® with RAC Option
Includes Spotlight on Unix/Linux, Spotlight on
Windows, and Spotlight on Oracle Data Guard
Benchmark Factory for Databases - Oracle ®
Edition
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Toad Data Modeler
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Toad Data Modeler
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Backup Reporter for Oracle ®
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Backup Reporter for Oracle ®
Toad for Oracle DBA Suite - Exadata Edition
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Toad for Oracle ® Xpert
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DB Admin Module Add-on
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Spotlight™ on Oracle ® with RAC and Exadata
Options
Includes Spotlight on Unix/Linux, Spotlight on
Windows, and Spotlight on Oracle ® Data Guard
Benchmark Factory for Databases - Oracle ®
Edition
Toad for Oracle 12.8
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Toad Data Modeler
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Backup Reporter for Oracle ®
For more information about the products in your Toad suite and the minimum system requirements for running
these products, see the Toad for Oracle 2015 Suites Release 2 release notes at:
http://documents.software.dell.com/ProductsAZ.aspx
Toad for Oracle 12.8
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New features
The following new features were introduced in this release of Toad for Oracle.
Enhanced debugging
The Debugging feature was enhanced and now contains tighter integration with Code Tester for Oracle. The
following enhancements were made.
Set Parameters window
The Set Parameters window contains the following enhancements:
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On the Arguments tab there is a new Expression column that, when selected, causes any test in the
Value column to be inserted as-is. This is useful for setting the input value to, for example, the return
value of a function. The Expression and Null columns are mutually exclusive. If both Null and
Expression are left unselected, the value is treated as a literal. This is the same as prior versions when
Null was not selected.
The Cursor Results section contains the following enhancements:
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Load into Grid from memory is now Fetch cursor data. When this option is selected, output
cursors are opened and their data is fetched into memory. NOTE: To be able to view the cursor
data after execution, this option must be selected.
Fetch cursor data and Print to DBMS Output are no longer mutually exclusive. Outputs can now
go to both DBMS output as well as the in-memory grid.
Enhanced PL/SQL results output
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The REF CURSOR Results dock panel is now named PL/SQL Results. After execution all inputs and
outputs are shown in one place on this panel. This is a read-only display. Re-running the current or new
PL/SQL in an Editor tab clears the prior results data.
A value of (CURSOR) is shown as the output when there is a cursor result. If Fetch cursor data is
enabled in the Set Parameters window, you can view the cursor data by double-clicking (CURSOR);
otherwise there is no access to the data.
Enhanced integration with Code Tester for Oracle
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On the PL/SQL Results panel, there is a new button for creating a unit test in Code Tester, based on the
input and output shown on the panel. The button is enabled only if there are results, there is an active
connection, and if there is a Code Tester repository installed on that database. The repository version
must be 2.7.0.1015 or greater.
The new button opens the Create Test dialog, which supports a subset of the Code Tester functionality
for creating a new test. To create a new test, all input and output values must be of a type supported
by Code Tester.
See the online help for more information.
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Enhanced SQL Recall
SQL Recall contains the following enhancements:
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The History, Named, and Personal selections in SQL Recall (View | SQL Recall) are replaced by two
tabs named Recent and Saved. The Recent tab contains recently executed statements (formerly
history) and the Saved tab contains all saved statements, whether they have a Toad-defined or userdefined name. Execution timestamps and connections are still shown as before.
You can drag a statement from the Recent tab to the Saved tab, and a dialog prompts you to assign
a category.
There is now copy/paste support and drag/drop within a saved statement.
The Personal category is now called Default. This is the default category when a user-defined category
is not specified when a statement is saved.
Toad places Personal and Named statements that are imported during upgrade into Imported Personal
and Imported Named categories on the Saved tab.
The Personal and Named options under Editor | Add to Saved SQL are replaced by a dialog with
options for defining a category, name, schema and database.
When you select a SQL statement, it is now displayed in a separate memo pane below the statements
list. You can edit a statement that is on the Saved tab, but not one that is on the Recent tab.
You can create, name, save and apply filters from a new Filter dialog. Toad also provides a list of
suggested filters. To access filters, you can:
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press CTRL+F
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use the Filter button on the toolbar
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use the right-click menu
You can auto-optimize a statement, open SQL Optimizer (if installed in your Toad edition), or open
Oracle Tuning Advisor from the SQL Recall toolbar.
The Export option now provides options to save recent, named, selected, or all statements to different
outputs, including individual files for each category.
You can now right-click a saved statement to open a Properties dialog, where you can edit the name,
category, schema and database for that statement. You can select and apply Properties to multiple
statements at once.
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SQL Recall is now stored in XML format.
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For additional information, see the online help.
DB Healthcheck integration into Toad Intelligence
Central
Toad Database Health Check is now integrated into Toad Intelligence Central. To publish the health check,
make certain you are connected to the Toad Intelligence Central server and then enable the upload before
you run the health check. To enable the upload, select Store Results in Toad Intelligence Central on the
Settings tab.
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Enhanced Code Analysis integration in Toad
Intelligence Central
The Code Analysis feature in Toad Intelligence Central contains the following enhancements:
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The layout now shows full object names.
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Server names are now color coded.
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You can now drill down into Rules.
Other enhancements
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The Grid Find feature contains a new filter option to allow filtering of the search by a data value. Closing
the dialog removes the filter, but the grid remains on the filtered row.
Code Insight contains the following enhancements:
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Instead of being a tree where you can expand nodes, the tree is flat. Each time you drill into an
object by entering a period (.) the tree is cleared and populated only with nodes that are valid
for that object.
The popup includes fields that are available from the tables/expressions referenced in the
FROM clause. When in the SELECT clause, fields already present are excluded from the popup.
In Database Health Check, the items on the Diffs Since Last Run tab now have their own heading to
explain them.
There is a new Jump Search option in Options | Toad Options | Online that allows you to select a
search engine to use in a Jump Search online search.
Incremental search and arrow-key navigation (press and hold the up/down arrow keys) in the lefthand side of the Schema Browser no longer cause queries to execute until you release the arrow key
or stop typing.
There is a new Initial Caps option in the Character Case selections under Options | Toad Options |
Editor | Font and Styling.
The query that builds the list of packages in the Schema Browser now enables packages to load
more quickly.
The Trace File Browser contains the following enhancements:
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There is a new Line # column in each grid (where applicable) to show the line in the file that
provided each bit of information. To display a dialog that contains the specified line, right-click
then select Display file contents where data of selected row was found. The line of data is
displayed plus 1000 lines before and after.
The Statement grid contains the following new columns: Cursor #, Exec Time (Avg), and Exec
Time (Max).
A Select visible columns dialog replaces the right-click option on the column header to
hide/show columns.
There are new charting options: Exec Time (Avg) and Exec Time (Max).
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In the Session Browser Toolbar, the Filter dropdown and button (which only affected the Sessions tab) is
now combined with the Filter button on the Sessions tab. The refresh options are now in a drop-down on
the Refresh button.
The Show indentation guides under Toad Options | Editor | Display is now enabled by default. The
option draws vertical lines at the tab indent points in the Editor. To use this feature, set your tab stop
settings to the same ones as the Formatter indent setting. To set Formatter indent settings, go to Toad
Options | Formatter | Spacing | Indenting.
Changes that may affect current setup
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To improve Navigator performance, the number of options was reduced. You need to reset any options
that you set to a non-default value (except for font).
To upload the results of Code Analysis and Database Healthcheck to Toad Intelligence Central, a special
license known as “Toad for Oracle (Reporting)” is required. Version 2.7 of Toad Intelligence Central has
the license built in when bundled with the free, base edition of Toad Intelligence Central. Toad
presents a message if the license is not installed on the Toad Intelligence Central server.
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Enhancements from Toad Idea Pond
The following is a list of enhancements requested by Toad users on the Toad Idea Pond and implemented in
this release.
The 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 people. The Toad development team has always been driven by our customers, and
now it is even easier for you to tell us what changes are most important. This site is free for all Toad customers.
Enhancement
Link to
Idea Pond
Data Compare enhancement
Link
The Minus method can be selected to get an explanation of that method.
Group windows for connections - In addition to "show buttons for current conn".
Link
Toad groups open windows by connection.
Link
Provide more feedback about length restricted object names
In fields where you enter the name of an object that is to be created or renamed, Toad now
displays red text if the name has more than 30 characters. The tooltip of the edit box (also
displayed on the lower status bar) displays a message stating how many characters you need to
remove.
Support drag and drop in SQL Recall
Link
You can drag a statement from the Recent tab to the Saved tab. See New features
SQL Export of Named SQL
Link
You can export some or all SQL statements to different outputs. See New features
Maintenance of named/personal SQL
Link
The maintenance of personal and named SQL is more intuitive. See New features
Toad for Oracle 12.8
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Resolved issues
This section contains a list of the issues that were resolved in this release of Toad for Oracle.
Editor Resolved Issues
Resolved Issue
Issue ID
A line feed was added to a carriage return when importing data.
107281
When a Code Template was opened in the Editor, the cursor was placed on line 1 rather than
at the end of the code.
117949
The Toad Intelligence Central toolbar did not stay hidden after re-launching the Editor.
117950
The options to import and export Code Templates were removed in 12.7 but added back in
12.7.1.
117967
Code Assist added extra characters when an underscore was used in the alias.
118025
The Script Output Font setting of the Editor Options did not Save after application close.
118129
When text was copied, it produced a "Code 5 Access is denied" error.
118340
Editor performance was too slow when accessing files on a shared drive.
118609
Schema Browser Resolved Issues
Resolved Issue
Issue ID
Tables were created before sequences.
117968
Clicking on the Users node returned
ORA 00907: missing right parenthesis."
118084
Checking dependencies on a table with reciprocal data values returned an ORA 01436 error.
118286
NOT NULL constraints were missing from a table script in some cases.
118444
The Alter Index window appeared to be read/write when it was read-only.
118494
An ORA 00933 error was returned for a synonym over a database link.
118621
Team Coding Resolved Issues
Resolved Issue
Issue
ID
Force check-out comment did not work.
117720
Toad for Oracle 12.8
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Resolved Issue
Issue
ID
Add a message if an object is checked out by another user.
118035
The database version of an object was not overwritten with the VCS version after undo checkout.
118522
When SVN was used, Toad tried to get information from the wrong directory.
118523
The Check-in All option did not work correctly.
118525
Team Coding Manager did not show the tree structure correctly when working with SVN.
118531
The Different Version dialog did not work correctly.
118532
Added a Team Coding check for F5.
118545
Toad could not validate projects with version control using TFS 2013.
118623
General Resolved Issues
Resolved Issue
Issue
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Toad with passwords disabled still displayed a password column in the login window.
116835
Statspack report could not be run on a selected snapshot pair when using direct connection mode.
117405
In Import Table Data, ODBC changed the year in dates to 2020.
117911
Auto connections were not made in a consistent order.
117964
The Master-Detail Browser grid disappeared in Minimize Toolbars mode after there was an error in
the data filter.
118004
Unsupported field type error returned during data compare using RAW columns as a PK.
118074
Open Cursors tab in Session Browser displayed wrong full statement.
118120
In Toad Options, the script output font setting did not save after Toad was closed.
118129
Locks Tab | 'Owner', 'Object Type' and 'Object Name' columns did not populate.
118404
In Import Table Data, defaults were not being inserted for NULL values during import, even when
there is a column default.
118418
Toolbar customization did not carry over from 12.6 to 12.7
118420
SQL Tracker was unable to define where the settings are stored.
118483
Export Dataset did not send to Excel.
118584
Trace file browser crashed on files over 12GB in size.
118622
Toad for Oracle 12.8
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Known issues
The following is a list of issues, including those attributed to third-party products, known to exist in this release
line at the time of the current release.
General known issues
Known Issue
Issue ID
Toad's help cannot be opened from an installation path that contains Unicode characters.
72966
If you check "Indexes" on the Scripts tab for snapshots, then the primary key for the snapshot
will be included in the script, even though the CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW statement
implicitly creates this primary key.
N/A
Toad currently does not differentiate between indexes created explicitly on the snapshot
and indexes created automatically when the snapshot is created.
Workaround: If you are running the generated script to recreate the snapshot, then you can
simply ignore the error that occurs when the script tries to recreate the primary key index
for the snapshot. If you do not normally create indexes on snapshots, then you can uncheck
"Indexes" when generating the snapshot script.
If you use 11g Oracle ODP.NET client or any other client that does not have the oci.dll in the
BIN directory, Toad has the following problems:
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1. Client shows as invalid
2. Client version is not detected
3. As a result of #2, columns of the following datatypes are not shown in the Schema
Browser table data: CLOB, BLOB, NCLOB, XMLTYPE, TIMESTAMP, INTERVAL, BINARY_
DOUBLE, and BINARY_FLOAT
N/A
Debugger
If there is an exception during debugging on a 10Gr2 or greater database, REFCURSOR output
and DBMS output will not be available when debugging is completed. This is due to the target
session not being available.
Workaround: To see REFCURSOR output and DBMS output, execute the procedure without the
debugger.
N/A
Connections
While Toad supports LDAP connectivity, some features of Toad depend on tnsnames.ora file to
operate correctly, such as Toad Script Runner (TSR).
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Schema Browser
Sometimes on Oracle 8.1.7 or higher, after pressing "Compile invalid objects", you may get
ORA-20000, ORA-06512, or ORA-06512 errors. This could mean that you do not have the
privileges to compile the object, but it also happens when the schema contains a package
body that does not have an associated spec.
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Known Issue
Issue ID
Workaround: Look in the schema that you are trying to compile to see whether there are any
orphan package bodies. If it is your own schema, then do:select * from user_objects o1 where
object_type = ''PACKAGE BODY'' and not exists (select ''x'' from user_objects o2 where
o2.object_name = o1.object_name and o2.object_type = ''PACKAGE'') Then drop any orphan
package bodies that are found.
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Virtualization
An access violation error may display when you close Toad in a Citrix XenApp environment.
59228
Import/Export
Constraint scripts from Export DDL do not contain the "using index" or "tablespace" clause.
N/A
Data Modeler:
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Generation of HTML reports of large diagrams may fail during generation of an image of
the ER Diagram.
Comparison of large models may consume too much memory.
Data Grids known issues
Known Issue
Issue
ID
You may receive an "ORA-00902 invalid datatype" error when editing an object, nested table, or varray
data if you have redefined the data type for that data during the current session.
N/A
Workaround: If you redefine an object type, nested table, or varray and then need to edit data in a
table based on that type, end your current connection and begin a new one.
Full table data is not displaying in the live data grid (results from F9) if the data contains "zero"
characers (ACII 0). In this case, all data after the zero character will not show in the grid.
Workaround: Double click on the data cell in the data grid to view full contents of data in a popup
editor.
Code Analysis known issues
Known Issue
Issue ID
Saving results to a database: When dealing with nested procedures, Code Analysis can only
insert run data from procs one level deep.
N/A
Saving PL/SQL results to a database may fail or save invalid data to the database for invalid
PL/SQL objects.
N/A
Workaround: To ensure PL/SQL results are saved to the database correctly, verify the validity
of all objects before running Code Analysis.
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Editor known issues
Known Issue
Issue ID
Toad errors when you query on a field of Oracle collection types.
64373
Workaround: Execute using SQL*Plus.
When spooling to an unpinned output window, the window becomes unresponsive and errors
are given when Toad is closed ("Canvas does not allow drawing").
68523
Workaround: Keep the output window pinned.
If you use a non fixed-width font, the results are misaligned in the of Script Output tab in
Editor after executing a SQL script.
62234
Workaround: Go to Options | Scripts and select a fixed-width font for script output.
Session Browser known issues
Known Issue
Issue ID
The Program name in the Session Browser may be blank or may be the full path to the
executable instead of just the executable name. This depends on the Oracle client, not on
Toad.
N/A
In RAC databases, version 10.1.0.3 (and possibly other 10.1 versions), the query used to
populate the "Current Statement" in the Session Browser fails with the following error:
Runtime error occurred: 12801 (ORA-12801: error signaled in parallel query server PZ99,
instance <instance name> ORA-01008: not all variables bound) This problem does not occur in
Non-RAC environments.
N/A
Workaround: Clear the "Use RAC Views" checkbox, and log into the appropriate instance of the
database, if necessary.
Team Coding known issues
Known Issue
Issue ID
When using the Team Foundation Server internal client and Team Foundation Server 2012 or
2013 alternate Team Project Collections, workspaces created outside of Toad are not visible
from within Toad. A workspace may be created from Toad by clicking the ‘New’ button during
the Team Foundation Server log in.
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This is not an issue when using the Team Foundation Server external client.
Team Coding is disabled for mixed-case object names.
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Team Coding and SourceSafe:
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Known Issue
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Issue ID
SourceSafe 5.0 ignores the "Force revision" flag and ''Create a new revision for existing
objects'' option when exporting.
With CVS, Toad may fail to retrieve the list of projects for you to select from in the CVS
browser or in the Code Control Groups configuration.
N/A
Workaround: See "Missing CVS\Entries File Error" in the online help.
Team Coding and Clearcase: Dynamic Views are not supported via SCC interface. Snapshot
Views must be used instead. (Rational case ID v0830629, Rational Defect # CMBU00053934)
N/A
Unicode known issues
Known Issue
Issue ID
The following features in Toad do not support Unicode:
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Export File Browser
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Hex Editor
In addition, Java itself does not allow Unicode class names or file names. This is relevant to
the Java Manager, Editor, and Schema Browser.
Editor options to highlight object names may not work for object names that contain Unicode
characters.
N/A
Script Execution in Editor: Error offset can be incorrect when running scripts with multi-byte
object names.
N/A
XML (Plain) format creates bad XML if Unicode string values and Unicode column names are
exported through Export Dataset.
N/A
Import mapping for Unicode characters is incorrect if the characters are not a fixed width
(such as Korean).
63221
In Team Coding, objects with Unicode contents are supported, objects with Unicode names
are not. Supported Version Control Providers do not support Unicode names.
N/A
Third-party known issues
Known Issue
Issue ID
Help
N/A
(Affects the 64-bit version of Toad only)
If IE9 is installed, clicking a link in the Help file may crash Toad 64-bit, even if IE9 is not the
default browser.
Workaround: Users who have IE9 installed can open Help from outside of Toad.
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Known Issue
Issue ID
ODAC
62654
ODAC does not support Unicode in XMLTYPE (editing of XMLTYPE data is not supported).
Querying of XMLTYPE with binary storage will lead to an error.
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System requirements
This section contains the hardware, software, and privileges required to run Toad, as well as the database and
virtual environments that Toad supports.
Hardware requirements
Requirement
Details
Memory
32-bit: 1 GB RAM
64-bit: 2 GB RAM
NOTE: The memory required may vary based on the following: Hard disk space
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Number of concurrent users accessing the database
120 MB - Toad for Oracle 32 bit
150 MB - Toad for Oracle 64 bit
Operating system
Windows Server 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Windows XP
NOTE: Windows XP does not support the Oracle 12c client. Use an earlier
client version with this platform.
Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit) - 2 CPU required
Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) - 2 CPU required
Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Windows 8 and 8.1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Windows 2012 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Windows Server 2012 R1 and R2 (64-bit)
Windows 10
Database requirements
Requirement
Details
Database client
Oracle Client 9.2.0.8
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Requirement
Details
Oracle Client or Instant Client 10.2.0.5
Oracle Client or Instant Client 11.2.0.1/11.2.0.3
Oracle Client or Instant Client 12c (not supported on Windows XP)
NOTE: You must use the 32-bit version of Toad with the 32-bit Oracle
client, and the 64-bit version of Toad with the 64-bit Oracle client.
Database server
Oracle versions:
8.0.6
8.1.7
9i, 9i R2
10g, 10g R2
11g, 11g R2
12c
Exadata
Toad has been tested on Oracle Exadata 2.0 running Oracle
database 11g R2.
IMPORTANT: It is recommended that your client version be of the
same release (or later) as your database server. This is an Oracle
recommendation to prevent performance issues.
Cloud database service
Oracle Database as a Service on Amazon EC2 and Oracle Cloud
IPv6
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is being adopted by the US Federal
Government and industries around the world. In its most basic format,
the new protocol uses 128-bit addresses instead of 32-bit addresses,
which are used by the current IPv4 to route packets over the Internet.
Toad for Oracle features, such as FTP, access the Internet through thirdparty vendors that are IPv6 compliant, such as /nSoftware's IP*Works. For
access to Web sites by way of the Toad Online window, Toad simply
invokes the user-defined or default Web browser.
Additional requirements
Requirement
Additional Software
Details
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later (to view video from the
Jump list within Toad, and to view the product documentation in
HTML format).
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or later (to view the product
documentation in PDF format).
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 to support the Toad for Oracle®
2015 Suites Installer.
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Virtualization support
Type
Details
Application virtualization
Citrix® XenApp 5.0 and 6.5 have been tested.
Desktop virtualization (VDI)
Dell™ vWorkspace™ 7.0 has been tested.
Server virtualization
Oracle VM 3.1 has been tested.
VMware ESX Server 3.5, 4.0, and 5.5 have been tested.
NOTE: Toad may work in virtualization environments other than the ones listed.
Windows Privileges
In order to install and run Toad for Oracle, make a connection, and do basic operations, you must have the
following privileges.
Operating System
Requirements
Windows XP
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Read access to the Oracle client folder
Read/write privileges on the Oracle Home directories that you use
for your connections
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Windows Vista
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Read access to the Oracle client folder
Windows 7
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Windows 8
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Windows Server 2012
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Read/write privileges on the Oracle Home directories that you use
for your connections
Read access to the Oracle client folder
Read/write privileges on the Oracle Home directories that you use
for your connections
Note: Other functionality in Toad may require additional privileges.
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Product licensing
To activate a trial
1. Go to the trial download web page: http://software.dell.com/products/toad-for-oracle/softwaredownloads.aspx, accessed through the product page.
2. Select the Toad Edition that you want to try.
3. Log in to your account or register.
4. Accept the license terms.
5. Download the trial file.
To activate a purchased commercial license
1. Go to the Dell Support website: https://support.software.dell.com/
2. Type the name of the product that you want to activate in the Enter your product to find
support field.
3. Select Download New Releases.
4. Download the installer file.
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License keys compatible with Toad for Oracle 9.7 and earlier versions are no longer supported.
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Beginning with Toad for Oracle 12.5, only the newer 48-character license keys are supported.
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Getting started with Toad
Toad for Oracle is distributed in the Toad for Oracle 2015 Suites Release 2 at
https://support.software.dell.com/toad-for-oracle/download-new-releases.
Upgrade and installation instructions
Please refer to the Toad for Oracle Installation Guide at http://documents.software.dell.com/toad-for-oracle/
for installation and upgrade instructions.
Upgrades for Toad can install side-by-side with any previous versions you have installed. You can run the new
and previous versions concurrently.
The first time you run the new version of Toad, the settings files from the previous version are automatically
imported. To start with a clean set of user files, go to Utilities | Copy User Settings, then select Create a
clean set of user files from the base installation.
NOTE: Toad supports importing settings only if the new version is within two releases of the previous
version. If your versions are more than two releases apart, you need to install an intermediate version to
successfully import the files.
User instructions
To get started with using Toad for Oracle, see the Guide to Using Toad at
http://documents.software.dell.com/toad-for-oracle. For detailed information about any Toad window or
feature, see the online help, which can be accessed from the Help menu.
Additional resources
Additional information is available from the Toad for Oracle community on Toad World:
http://www.toadworld.com/products/toad-for-oracle/default.aspx
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Globalization
Global Operation Statement for Toad for Oracle 12.8
This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English configurations, such
as those needed by customers outside of North America. This section does not replace the materials about
supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.
This release is Unicode-enabled and supports any character set. In this release, all product components should
be configured to use the same or compatible character encodings and should be installed to use the same
locale and regional options. This release is targeted to support operations in the following regions: North
America, Western Europe and Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Far-East Asia, Japan.
The release is localized to the following languages: Chinese (Simplified), Korean.
This release has the following known capabilities or limitations: Toad 12.8 is a Unicode application. As such, it
has native support for any Oracle Unicode character set, such as UTF8 or AL32UTF8. There are some features in
Toad which use or invoke Oracle Utilities or applications which are not themselves Unicode applications. Their
functionality is therefore limited to the character set of the client on which Toad is running, and NLS_LANG
must be carefully set to match the Windows character set
We have also observed issues with US7ASCII when used with non Latin characters.
The UI is localized into simplified Chinese. Reports are localized to simplified Chinese and Korean.
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About Dell
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trust and value. For more information, visit www.software.dell.com.
Contacting Dell
For sales or other inquiries, visit http://software.dell.com/company/contact-us.aspx or call 1-949-754-8000.
Technical support resources
Technical support is available to customers who have purchased Dell software with a valid maintenance
contract and to customers who have trial versions. To access the Support Portal, go to
https://support.software.dell.com.
The Support Portal provides self-help tools you can use to solve problems quickly and independently, 24 hours
a day, 365 days a year. In addition, the Support Portal provides direct access to product support engineers
through an online Service Request system.
The Support Portal enables you to:
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Create, update, and manage Service Requests (cases).
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View Knowledge Base articles.
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Obtain product notifications.
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Download software. For trial software, go to http://software.dell.com/trials.
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View how-to videos.
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Engage in community discussions.
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Chat with a support engineer.
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