We performed a comparison between DbVisualizer and Toad for Oracle based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database Development and Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Actions like exporting grids to Excel or other tools is a very easy task."
"Timed queries that add their result to the result grid for every execution are helpful."
"Oracle has advanced query optimization and tuning features that help improve the performance of SQL queries."
"Toad has a lot of features that are very useful, fast, and well developed."
"Toad for Oracle has proven to be better than other tools since we have never experienced any crashes."
"The most valuable feature of Toad for Oracle is the fashion browser and the Schema browser. It is very complete."
"The most valuable feature is the navigation within the UI, where you can right-click on an object in an SQL query and go right to it, versus going through all of the menus to find what you are looking for."
"The tool evaluates non-optimized queries and generates the queries in a way that is more optimal - in addition to giving us some good practices for code development."
"Simply the best GUI software for administration is the most valuable aspect for me."
"A quite simple feature that I have not encountered elsewhere is the "Make Code" feature. I can easily export a complex SQL statement to a programming language. This is a great timesaver as I do not have to type in all of the escape/concatenation characters just to create a SQL statement in C# or C++."
"One thing I would like to see changed is having the JDBC drivers in a fixed location outside of the application package."
"Sometimes, I feel that the startup time takes a bit more time than needed."
"I would like to see an improvement in the performance because opening the browser and the editor should be faster."
"There should also be a better "cancel query" option as sometimes one cancels a query, but then it still might run for a long time, and then one has to crash Toad in order to cancel the query."
"Improvement wise, for the user it should show the minimum features on the screen and not all the features. Toad has a lot of features, but most users will use only 5 or 10 based on their role. Nobody needs all the features, and they should provide the option to choose only the required features. Only minimum requirements should be enabled by default. When all the features are shown, the performance is not good; it loads slowly and has hundreds of popups and unnecessary questions."
"The way the dialog boxes appear can be improved."
"Toad for Oracle could improve code completion, it is very slow."
"Query optimization is still very resource-intensive."
"I'd like reporting to be more available. If it was a feature that was already installed, more people would take advantage of it."
"It would be better if they had an online option allowing me to connect from anywhere on any device. Sometimes I face some errors, depending on the network and setup. It's not a big issue."
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DbVisualizer is ranked 24th in Database Development and Management while Toad for Oracle is ranked 3rd in Database Development and Management with 15 reviews. DbVisualizer is rated 9.6, while Toad for Oracle is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of DbVisualizer writes "Good for monitoring specific processes, built-in SSH tunneling support, easy-to-create graphs, and a clean GUI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Toad for Oracle writes "Advanced query optimization and tuning features ". DbVisualizer is most compared with , whereas Toad for Oracle is most compared with Toad Edge, Aqua Data Studio, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Redgate SQL Toolbelt and Quest Foglight for Databases. See our DbVisualizer vs. Toad for Oracle report.
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