Toad Data Point

"For a Non-DBA, Toad Data Point Professional is the best tool"

What do you like best about Toad Data Point? Cross platform use, and in the Pro version able to access noSQL such as Cassandra. Ease of use. Much prefer to use Toad for Data Point Pro over Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. What do you dislike about Toad Data Point? Not much really. It isn't cheap and I have to create a good argument to my boss to get it over using the MS SQL Management Studio, which is free. What saves me is my time at the company, 17 years, and that I also work on ...

"Toad Data Point User Review"

What do you like best about Toad Data Point? I like the feature that the Toad Data Point can sort the result set. You don't need to modify the SQL and run it again just because you want to sort the result set in a different way. You can just click on the column name and you can choose how you want to sort the result ascent or decent. What do you dislike about Toad Data Point? The performance of the SQL could be slow sometimes. As an analyst we often need to do a full table scan. I do not ...

"TOAD - not just for Oracle (and still better than SQL Developer)"

What do you like best about Toad Data Point? TOAD Data Point is a robust and intuitive tool that I depend on everyday to get my Oracle, SQL Server and Netezza development work and reporting done. Data Point handles different data sources and destinations with ease providing a consistent interface that (if configured properly) saves so much time e.g. SQL Recall and Code Snippets. I'm sure there are tons of features I'm not using yet, but feel confident that if a new task was needed that TOAD ...

"Quick and Covenient Tool"

What do you like best about Toad Data Point? We use Toad Data Point to process large databases with millions of records for a company with more than 100K employees. TDP is quick and convenient tool to perform financial analysis. What do you dislike about Toad Data Point? Some pop-up message window should be customized. Recommendations to others considering Toad Data Point: Toad is a powerful and easy used tool to process large and complicated datasets. What problems is Toad Data Point ...

"Toad offers a range of options for our needs."

What do you like best about Toad Data Point? I like that Toad offers a variety of products with different levels of access. We can use one product for end users trying to get information not found in the front end product, while another provides access to DBA tools that separates our reliance on another group for simpler DBA tasks. What do you dislike about Toad Data Point? It's a little difficult to get going without instruction. Recommendations to others considering Toad Data Point: Get ...

"Performance Dashboards and Toad Data Point"

What do you like best about Toad Data Point? The #1 benefit is being able to connect to many different types of data sources and aggregate data into one product and aggregate data from many different sources into one dashboard. I built my entire division's performance data reporting around Toad Data Point. What do you dislike about Toad Data Point? Bugs. Frequently, between Toad Data Point version releases, automation script processes that worked in a previous release will not work in the ...

"Nice product for database architects"

What do you like best about Toad Data Point? Helpful tool for creating complex queries, joins, extract data and model at same place. Have been using it from last few years. What do you dislike about Toad Data Point? Probably quest need to add few more features now. I really would like to see a tool which shows database changes with the date the change happened What problems is Toad Data Point solving and how is that benefiting you? writing complex queries and data modelling.

"User Experience on Toad"

What do you like best about Toad Data Point? Toad Data Point is one of my most used software app in my daily work. It provides me the ability to access to different schemas in different databases such as EDW/Orcacle/Microsoft SQL Server. Besides, it provides a clear display which helps the users to navigate their needs such as how to locate the tables they need or the data format behind. What do you dislike about Toad Data Point? The thing I dislike the most is it is relatively to set the ...

"Toad Data Point: Great product. Outrageous pricing."

What do you like best about Toad Data Point? It's a very robust, fully-featured product. Autocompletion of database objects is a huge timesaver. What do you dislike about Toad Data Point? The pricing model. Previously, I was able to purchase a 1-year subscription for around $250. Now, that's now longer an option, and the Base version is over $700. For someone who really only utilized about 10% of the product features (which still allowed much more than free alternatives), this is a deal ...

"Not really what I was looking for"

What do you like best about Toad Data Point? Generating simple queries was not too complicated. What do you dislike about Toad Data Point? The connection interface was a little awkward. When generating more complicated queries I found it easier to just write my own. What problems is Toad Data Point solving and how is that benefiting you? I ended up not using toad data point as I wanted to using to easily create complicated queries but ending up find it easier to do it manually. I probably ...