Version 11.6.1
Release Notes
November 19, 2012
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:
The Toad for Oracle solutions are built for you, by you. Over 10 years of development and feedback from various communities like Toad World have made it the most powerful and functional tool available. With an installed-base of over two million, Toad for Oracle continues to be the “de-facto” standard tool for database development and administration.
All commercial versions of Toad are bundled with additional Quest products, based upon the Edition that you purchased. For more information about the latest features in your Toad Edition and the bundled products, see the Toad Editions Release Notes.
Review the following sections for new features in this release.
A note about menu icons and toolbar buttons:
An artist was employed to update a substantial portion of Toad's main menu, toolbar buttons, and Editor icons. Further work will continue in Toad to enhance more icons throughout the product. The familiar placement of buttons and icons will allow you to quickly grow accustomed to the updated images.
For 11.6, the new user guide, the installation guide, and release notes have been translated into Korean, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. You can download these translated documents on our award-winning Support Site.
The new "Guide to Using Toad for Oracle 11.6," includes the original "Beginner's Guide" content, updated for 11.6, plus two additional chapters: "Toad Without Code" and "Toad and Your Code." It is shipped with the 11.6.1 patch and is available for download on Toad World.
Visit the Toad World library to download both of these new documents:
Toad Options now includes an Online section (View | Toad Options | Online) for new online features:
- Project Lucy (available with the DB Admin Module DBA Suite Edition, and DBA Suite RAC Edition)
- MyToad Monitor
- Enable MyToad
- Enable user file syncing
- Toad World.
Note: When you log in to Toad World in the online options, you won't have to sign in each time you Open from Repository or Save to Repository within the Editor. Read "Toad World Repository" below.
These three new tools allow you to perform remote script execution using mobile devices, access public script files from a global repository and place your user files online, for backup and sharing across multiple computers.
Introducing MyToad for Remote Script Execution
Now you can use MyToad, a new Web application available at MyToad.ToadWorld.com.
With MyToad, you can:
- Store script files using your Dropbox account
- View them via the Web
- Choose which ones to execute.
If you have multiple Toad installations, you can select the machine to execute the scripts.
This data is encrypted using 256-bit AES encryption.
Check Enable MyToad and click OK.
You will notice the Toad for Oracle MyToad Monitor icon displayed on your taskbar.
Complete the Initial Setup dialog.
Note: If you don't see the Initial Setup dialog, click the MyToad Monitor icon on your taskbar.
Once more, click Allow to let Toad for Oracle connect with your Dropbox account.
On the Remote Script Execution page:
Enter database information or select it from the grid (not shown).
Select an uploaded script or enter an ad hoc query on the Query tab, such as:select * from all_users.
Your client Toad does not have to be running to execute scripts remotely, but MyToadMonitor.exe does.
You can execute scripts using your mobile device.
In Toad:
On your mobile device:
Users with an iOS device such as iPhone or iPad will be able to add MyToad to their Home screens via Safari.
You can sync files with a Dropbox account.
Go to View | Toad Options | Online | Enable user files syncing
Benefits:
- Each copy of Toad you have can be set up to use a single set of application data files.
- Backup - Dropbox provides a secure, online storage mechanism.
- Versioning - Dropbox automatically versions every file stored in it. You can roll back to an earlier version of a data file.
By uploading scripts you think would be useful to the community of Toad Oracle professionals, you can be part of this worldwide script library.
You can also:
- Comment on scripts
- Rate them
- Bookmark your favorites
- Organize them into collections.
- Discover the popularity of scripts by seeing the number of downloads, and their number of Likes and Dislikes.
You can also log in by going to View | Toad Options | Online | Toad World.
The Open window contains existing files.
- Type your file name and description.
- Choose the Type (Script, Document, or Other).
- Select a Collection to add it to (or create a new one); optional.
- Click the ellipsis button next to File Tags to select related tags and click OK.
- Enter a Description.
- Click Save to upload your file to the Repository.
You can manage your Toad World Repository login in Options (View | Toad Options | Online).
Toad now supports the IFILE directive within TNS Names files. The IFILE directive allows you to link to an external TNS Names file and dynamically include its contents along with the contents of your local TNS Names list. You can include TNS files up to three levels deep in order to organize and manage TNS entries within your company.
The new Compare to menu item lets you easily access this feature.
You can compare one tab to another tab, or one tab to a file on disk.
You can also use the Control-key/click/drag method from one tab onto another that has always been available.
You can now edit search-and-replace macros via the right-click menu in Editor. This advanced macro editor lets you reconfigure any macro, rename it, remove it, and create new macros. Copy/paste is supported. You can also copy/paste your macros and email them.
- Table Filter has a new option to exclude Object tables. When selected, this could make the SB load noticeably faster for some users.
- The RHS Data tab is now read only if you don't have UPDATE privilege on the table, view or MView.
You can now specify version of the target database, so scripts generated from a higher DB version can run in a lower DB version.
You have this option in:
The new database type option lets you optimize SQL without using hints
Right-click a SQL statement in the Editor and select Optimize | Auto Optimize SQL
The following features now support Oracle databases running on Amazon RDS:
Note: Some of the features listed are only available with the DB Admin Module.
Toad now supports IBM Rational ClearCase for version control.
Note: Toad has been tested with ClearCase Version 7.1 for Windows. ClearTool command line is required. A working client view, mapped to the project VOB, must be set up the client computer before using in Toad.
Toad now supports mapping to multiple Work Directories (as available with Team Foundation Server) on the new Workspace tab of the Team Foundation Server Login Dialog. Versions of Toad prior to 11.6 only permitted a single Work Directory (client folder mapping) for a Workspace.
To help you find answers quickly, a link to the Knowledge Base of our award-winning Support team has been added to many error messages.
- Quest Support has a new policy regarding the submission of Support Bundles inside the product. An existing Case or Service Request ID is now required. This information is prompted for now when clicking the 'Email Quest Support' label on the Support Bundle form.
- We have added a link to Quest Web Support on the Support Bundle page.
Toad for Oracle's 64-bit version now lets you connect using 64-bit Oracle clients.
Toad 11.6 introduces a secure, Internet-free Toad installation with a restrictive parameter used when installing Toad silently. The "i" parameter of the RESTRICTIONS option ensures Toad does not access the Internet. This prevents the use of all functionality which could do so, such as the FTP window and opening Browser windows through Toad.
Refer to the "Toad for Oracle 11.6 Installation Guide" for instructions. Visit the Toad for Oracle library for that and many other resources.
Code Analysis (formerly CodeXpert) is Toad's powerful code review and analysis tool. It helps you ensure that the performance, maintainability, and reliability of code meets and exceeds your company’s best practice standards.
Code Analysis has the following new features:
Ignore Rules
You can also access the "Ignore Rules" option by right-clicking on rule violations in the Messages tab at the bottom of the Editor window.
You can choose to:
- Ignore this instance
- Ignore all instances in this window
- Ignore all instances.
To restore a rule to full service:
Click a row to select it.
Legend (checkboxes are read-only indicators):
Updated UI
On the Code Analysis toolbar, the 'Analyze Code' and 'Scan SQL statements...' buttons have been replaced by a drop-down list to apply to selected items:
- Run Review
- Run SQL Scan
- Run Review and SQL Scan.
Make your selection and press F9, or click 'Analyze Code for all selected items' on the toolbar 
.
Or to apply your selection to all items, press F5.
Run (F9), Run all (F5), and Cancel have been updated.
The new graphic icon legend makes it easier to see rule types/objectives at a glance.
Edited rules are now indicated by a checked box in the User Defined column.
Modified rules are now indicated by a checked box in the Modified column.
To reset user-defined or edited rules to their original values, select the rule and click the 'Restore Original Rule Value' button, or click the double-arrow 'Restore All Original Rule Values' button. 
These buttons replace the right-click functionality for restoring rules.
When editing Rule Sets, it is easier to identify read-only rules sets.
Toad's standard rule sets cannot be edited.
Your new rule set will appear with the Read Only checkbox unselected.
The 'Export Rule Set' and the 'Edit Rule Set' buttons become available when you select your new rule set.
- The Edit Code Analysis Rules toolbar now includes import and export buttons to import existing or export user-defined rules.
- See "Create, Clone, or Edit Code Analysis Rules" in the online help for more information.
- The import and export of rule sets has been updated.
- See "Create or Edit Rule Sets" in the online help for more information.
You can now perform a full Code Analysis directly from the Project Manager, using your default rule set, via the right-click menu.
The following Code Analysis Rules have been improved:
| Rule 2118 (Avoid DDLs other than Truncate, Exchange/Split partition): Did flag procedures/functions. |
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Rule 2829 (Avoid declaring NUMBER subtypes which have no precision [INTEGER etc.], and avoid declaring NUMBER without precision): Adding DEC. The data types which cannot have a precision or scale have been removed. |
| Rule 4213 (Use CASE statement rather than a complex conditional IF statement): The smallest "complex" statement is now IF-ELSIF-ELSE-END rather than IF-ELSIF-END. |
| Rule 4409 (Ensure END [LOOP] statement is not missing a semi-colon): Has become a pink rule (with XPath expression). |
| Rule 4602 (Avoid use of literals in non-declarative parts of the program): Adding all numeric literals except 0, 1 and -1. |
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Rule 4801 (Use EXIT WHEN rather than IF THEN EXIT): The rule states that EXIT WHEN is ok, but plain EXIT is not. Formerly EXIT_WHEN was caught as well. |
| Rule 4804 (Avoid use of EXIT/RETURN statements in a FOR/WHILE loop): EXIT is now allowed in an endless loop. |
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Rule 4809 (A loop that contains DML statements should be refactored to use BULK COLLECT and FORALL): Not flagging SELECT if no DML statements are found. XPath expression updated. |
| Rule 4810 (Ensure that FORALL statements rely on a driving array that is not empty): This rule has been removed as an empty driving array does not cause trouble. |
| (Rule 4811 has been removed.) |
| Rule 4812 - (SELECT-BULK-COLLECT [implicit bulk query] or FETCH-BULK-COLLECT...): XPath expression updated. |
| Rule 5002 (Avoid assigning strings of zero length to character-type variables ): Removing hitting parameters because that's allowed in many cases, see topic text. |
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Rule 5406 (Remove unused parameters or modify code to use the parameter): False positive on cursor parameter declarations, such as "cursor c_test(v_test integer) is ...". Excluding procedure, function and cursor specifications. Changed to XPath based. |
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Rule 5825 (Consider replacing INSERT/UPDATE or UPDATE/INSERT pairs working on the same table by a MERGE): Now flags more cases. Did not look within a same block hence false positives. |
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Rule 5914 (Use untransformed column values in the WHERE clause): Adding anonymous block context. The rule has been refined to limit the transformations to TO_NUMBER() and SUBSTR() only. Perhaps a few others can be added later. |
| Rule 5917 (Do not use 'Insert into ... select * ...' statements) : Did not filter on "SELECT *", rather flagged all selects. |
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Rule 6401 (Avoid multiple declarations of labels and variables): XPath updated to find procedure and function declarations. Changed to XPath based. |
| Rule 6801 (Ensure all statements can be reached [dead code]): Now supports full Oracle syntax (formerly only Oracle up to 9.2 was supported). Fixed for correctness. |
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Rule 6806 (Use native execution for PL/SQL that is compute intensive and has little SQL) : Now triggers whenever the total count of non-DML statements is greater than 30 times the number of DML statements. The legacy code has been replaced by a new XPath expression which will trigger whenever the total count of non-DML statements is greater than 30 times the number of DML statements. This can serve as a starter, and can be refined later. |
Project Lucy is now launched as an embedded Toad window, and the UI has been updated.
- Your token is now stored in the new Online section of Toad Options (View | Toad Options | Online)
- You can launch Project Lucy from the Database Browser toolbar 
or click Database | Diagnose | Project Lucy.
See "Project Lucy" in the online help for more information.
Idea Pond is a site where you can submit your ideas to improve Toad and vote or comment on other people's ideas. Toad's development 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 customers.
The following Idea Pond submissions were implemented for this release:
| Enhancement | Idea Pond ID |
| 64-bit version of Toad. | 11 |
| You can now specify SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE in order to export TABLESPACE definitions with an ASM template instead of hard coded files with OMF names. | 458 |
| In data grids, Toad will now only remember column sizing if you resize or reposition a column. If you don’t make a change to the grid, it will auto size on the next execution. | 482 |
| Added support for IBM Rational ClearCase to source control. | 490 |
| Added the ability to ignore Code Analysis rules. You can ignore a specific rule at a specific location, a rule in a window, or any instance of a rule. | 530 |
| In the Schema Browser, the ‘Cancel’ button has been moved so it remains visible regardless of the size of the LHS portion of the window. | 533 |
| Option added to display the number of found occurrences/replacements made following a search/replace all. | 554 |
| Added the menu bar to the LHS of the Schema Browser when you have hidden the RHS using F12. | 583 |
| Schema Compare now has two options for private synonyms: "Owned by schema" and "For schema's objects." | 613 |
| Added support for proxy connections. | 616 |
| Added a filter to the Code Analysis main window. | 627 |
| Added the ability to show Code Analysis violations in the tree view by location (current), or grouped by objective, or grouped by severity. | 645 |
| Added an option to display outline hints (formatting option OUTLINE) in the DBMS_XPLAN formatting of execution plans. | 675 |
| A new Record View Option dialog allows you to set the maximum percent of screen space (height and width) the Single Record View window can use. | 686 |
The following list includes issues addressed in this release of Toad for Oracle.
| Feature | Resolved Issue | ID |
| Administration | Revoking of more than one object privilege now works correctly. | 102974 |
| Automation Designer |
In Automation Designer, the Compare Schemas action now specifies the Exclude File. |
102981 |
| Automation Designer |
In Automation Designer, the Compare Schemas action now generates the correct Schema Definition file. |
103530 |
| Code Analysis | Rule 6401 - Avoid multiple declarations of labels and variables; rule is now correctly triggered. | 102632 |
| Code Analysis | Rule 5914 - Use untransformed column values in the WHERE clause; rule is now correctly triggered. | 102635 |
| Code Analysis | Rule 5405 - Ensure mode of Procedure / function parameter is specified with IN parameter. | 102713 |
| Code Analysis | Rule 5407 - Ensure mode of cursor parameter is specified with IN parameter. | 102715 |
| Code Analysis |
Code Analysis can be run from the command line. |
103907 |
| Code Analysis | Green rules are processed successfully in 64-bit. | 104053 |
| Connections | Deleting a description in the TNS Editor no longer causes errors. | 104418 |
| General | HTML Schema Doc Generator now displays Trigger names in the report. | 103493 |
| Online Options | Trial version no longer generates "path not found" message when online options are checked for the first time. | 103767 |
| Schema Browser | The Describe window now behaves properly when searching through a Package Body. | 103744 |
| Schema Browser | Selecting an XMLTYPE column no longer causes an access violation (AV) error. | 103357 |
| Schema Browser |
Using the 'Save to File' option for packages in the Schema Browser now works properly. |
103843 |
| Schema Browser | In the Schema Browser tree view, clicking on a schema-level trigger no longer causes AV. | 104159 |
| Source Control | Team Foundation Server (TFS)- Toad no longer allows checkouts to unmapped workspaces. | 104067 |
| Tables |
Queries that return nulls for particular column (if there are nulls in the DB) no longer result in an error stating "‘’ is not a valid integer." |
104071 |
| Tables | 'Rebuild Table' now runs without any errors. | 104203 |
| Team Coding |
The freeware version of Toad now works properly with Team Coding installed. |
103668 |
| Team Coding |
32-bit Toad now successfully integrates with SourceGear Vault via SCC API; Team Coding works properly. |
103899 |
| Team Coding | When checking out files from TFS, 'Open database version' now functions properly. | 104201 |
| Team Coding |
In Team Coding Code Collections with Subversion, 'Create new collection' now shows the correct schema. |
104242 |
| Toad | Toad now operates properly on Windows XP. | 103712 |
| Toad |
32-bit Toad now runs on Windows 2003 (32 or 64-bit). |
NA |
The following issues were addressed in the 11.6 release of Toad.
| Feature | Resolved Issue | ID |
| Alter Table | The SB Alter Table now recognizes changes to physical attributes. | 100,488 |
| Automation Designer | The Advanced Properties button is now available in Win7. | 99,066 |
| AWR Browser | Double clicking on wait in the grid now gives you advice for that specific wait, as stated in Help. | 99,120 |
| Code Analysis | Code Analysis rule violations now trigger correctly. | 99,750 |
| Code Analysis | All rule violations are now inserted into the database. | 100,383 |
| Code Analysis | Code Analysis rule violations now trigger correctly. | 100,335 |
| Code Analysis | CRUD Matrix is now valid for Insert statements with select statements. | 99,454 |
| Code Analysis | Rule 4804 is now working properly. | 101,515 |
| Code Analysis | Rule 4801 is now triggering correctly. | 100,656 |
| Code Insight | Code Assist pop-up. Highlighted objects now show enough contrast. | 99,769 |
| Code Insight | Code insight no longer removes the period after sequence names. | 56,652 |
| Compare Data | Saving sync scripts no longer generates "Out of memory" errors. | 99,357 |
| Compare Data | The ability to compare a table to itself has been restored. | 100,849 |
| Compare Schemas | Source and Target schemas are now placed correctly in the file difference viewer after schema compare. | 100,445 |
| Compare Schemas |
In a Compare Schema action, the option to use '/' to end SQL statements is now saved successfully. |
99,653 |
| Compare Single Objects | The 'Ignore minor differences' option in file compare is now working properly. | 100,921 |
| Connections | IFILE is again supported in tnsnames. | 84,831 |
| Connections |
The Direct tab now supports additional connection options. |
101,026 |
| Copy User Settings | Copy User Settings: This window is now operable when pointing to an old version of Toad. | 101,701 |
| Create | Create Table: You can now access a list of directory objects when creating an external table. | 101,089 |
| Data Grids | The data grid is now resizing correctly on second F9. | 101,317 |
| Database Browser | Tablespaces/users tabs are now populating for OS Auth user. | 101,568 |
| Database Menu | Nested tables now display hugeclob data in the popup editor. | 102,811 |
| Editor | The Script Editor scroll bar slider is available. | 57,052 |
| Editor | Large queries can now be run successfully in the Editor. | 102,024 |
| Editor |
Issues upon updating connections.ini when running two instances of Toad have been resolved. |
101,630 |
| Explain Plan Tab | The right-hand-side connection is set correctly for.Explain Plan Comparison. | 99,316 |
| Export DDL | Sequence is no longer omitted when exporting DDL for multiple schemas in one file using simple search. | 99,012 |
| (F5) Script Execution | EZCONNECT is now supported in the script engine. | 99,754 |
| (F5) Script Execution | COMPUTE SUM BREAK ON is now working correctly in the Editor. | 98,812 |
| (F5) Script Execution | Editor: F5 no longer inserts decimal place in the wrong location. | 100,062 |
| (F9) Execute and Compile |
Executing a SQL statement with SHIFT+F9 now works properly on PL/SQL mode (i.e. package). |
100,577 |
| Find and Replace | The Find and Replace window now comes to front after switching to another application. | 100,908 |
| Import Table Data | Imports from Access Tables no longer truncates data fields. | 102,299 |
| Import Table Data | Generating insert statements for CLOB data no longer gives a "Missing Keyword" error. | 101,213 |
| Import Table Data | Leap year days are now handled correctly | 99,314 |
| Import Table Data | The Import wizard now properly ignores the count of lines from the flat file if the First Row field is populated with the Line Count. | 102,514 |
| Materialized Views |
Table script now puts synonyms DDL in the correct place; "Create or Replace Synonym" now works properly. |
101,889 |
| SQL Optimizer |
Using Oracle Instant Client no longer produces the error, "Cannot find OCI DLL." |
80,670 |
| Options | Visual Style is now saved after closing Toad. | 99,260 |
| PLSQL Debugger | Declarations no longer always include the schema name, which was causing issues. | 99,747 |
| Query Builder | The Object Palette can now be undocked without causing errors. | 100,415 |
| Query Builder |
Toad no longer gives this message when you open the Query Builder: "The Query Builder has been restricted for <connection name>. You can still use the Code Road Map, however it will be operating without a connection" |
101,772 |
| Detail Testing |
Passing tests from Toad to Quest Code Tester for Oracle now works properly. |
99,581 |
| Schema Browser | Adding two or more favorites no longer gives the "Could not convert variant of type (Null)" error. | 100,527 |
| Schema Browser | Insert Short-cut key now functions properly in the Alter Table window to add a column. | 100,814 |
| Schema Browser | Tree-view Mode - Load only users with objects filter now works with schemas only having DB Links. | 100,816 |
| Session Browser | The Locks tab in the Session Browser no longer give this error: "INST_ID not found." | 101,285 |
| Refresh Groups | Copy/paste changes are now recognized. | 99,328 |
| Scheduler Jobs | A job no longer runs immediately after changing the start date. | 100,361 |
| Session Browser |
Columns are now displayed properly. |
100,910 |
| Session Browser | All columns are now displayed. | 101,120 |
| Session Browser |
Toad now displays consistent details about the explain plans being used by a query regardless of where you access that information. |
101,347 |
| Sub Tabs | An unpinned grid no longer pops up when toggling from an editor with pinned grid. | 101,119 |
| Synonyms | Create script for synonym across dblink now works properly. | 101,635 |
| Team Coding | Team coding now creates temp CVS file to successfully check out code. | 92592 |
| Team Coding and Source Control | TFS2010: Errors no longer occur during check-in and check-out. | 100,909 |
| Team Coding and Source Control | TFS2010: This message no longer appears upon check-in: "File...is not in the Source Control Project Working Directory." | 100,703 |
| Team Coding and Source Control | Code Control window now populate properly. | 102,090 |
| Team Coding and Source Control | Error checking out using team coding, when local Path contains German characters | 81,417 |
| Tables | Posting data larger than 4k in the popup Editor no longer causes issues. | 101,319 |
| Text Editing | The Editor no longer has performance issues when using APPS account against Oracle Apps databases. | 102,372 |
| Triggers | Parsing schema names with "$" now works properly. | 99,456 |
| Triggers | Generation of source script of TRIGGER syntax is now accurate. | 101,638 |
The following issues were addressed in the 11.5.2 release of Toad.
| Feature | Resolved Issue | ID |
| Code Analysis | Rule 2118 was missing DDL such as trigger, function, and package objects. | N/A |
| Code Analysis | Rule 2129 was not triggering when more than 6 OR operations were used in a where clause. | N/A |
| Code Analysis | Rule 2832 was being fired for all VARCHAR2 declarations. | N/A |
| Code Analysis | Rule 4801 was incorrectly triggering EXIT WHEN statements when it should only trigger IF THEN EXIT. | N/A |
| Code Analysis | Rule 4804 was being triggered in a simple LOOP and should only be fired in FOR LOOP or WHILE LOOP statements. | N/A |
| Code Analysis | Rule 4809: Loops were being triggered even when using bulk and for all. | N/A |
| Code Analysis | Rule 5406 was falsely triggering parameters as unused when they were used. | N/A |
| Code Analysis | Rule 5825 was being violated in a package that had only 1 insert statement for a table. This rule should only fire when there are multiple inserts. | N/A |
| Code Analysis | Rule 5914: All transformations not in the database columns were being flagged, such as trun(sysdate) or nvl() function. | N/A |
| Code Analysis | Rule 5917 was falsely triggering select statements that did not contain a select *. This rule should only trigger "Insert into" statements that contain a select *. | N/A |
| Code Analysis | Rule 6401: The same procedure name with different parameters in a package were being triggered. | N/A |
| Code Analysis | Rule 6811 was being fired when the data type "double precision" was used. It should only fire for variables with spaces. | N/A |
| Code Analysis | Not all rule violations were getting inserted into the Database. | 1040377 |
| Code Analysis | Code Analysis could not scan pl/sql objects that contained the keyword TABLE. | 1040377 |
| Team Coding | Code Collections Window did not always populate. | 1057039 |
The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of this release.
|
Feature |
Known Issue |
ID |
| 64-bit SQL Tracker |
Launching SQL Tracker (in the UI: Database | Monitor | SQL Tracker) gives the following error: If the .NET framework v2.0.50727 or higher is not installed, launching SQL Tracker will give you the following error: “The application failed to initialize properly." The error should indicate: “To run this application, you first must install one of the following versions of the .NET Framework: v2.0.50727. Contact your application publisher for instructions about obtaining the appropriate version of the .NET Framework.” Workaround: Install the latest .NET framework. |
99633 |
| Team Coding |
The 64 bit version of Toad does not provide native support for the following Version Control Providers: - Microsoft Visual SourceSafe - Merant Version Manager (PVCS) version 5.2/5.3/6.0 - Merant Version Manager (PVCS) version 6.6 and later Integration with vendors who support the SCC API is dependent on the provider’s 64 bit implementation of SCC. |
N/A |
| General |
Database Probe does not work with Oracle version 8.1.5. Workaround: Upgrade to supported Oracle version 8.1.7 |
N/A |
| General | Toad's help cannot be opened from an installation path that contains Unicode characters. | ST72966 |
| General |
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. 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. |
N/A |
| General |
You may get the following error when moving from the first screen of the LogMiner to the second screen of the LogMiner: "17:46:25 Info: ORA-06532: Subscript outside of limit ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_LOGMNR_D", line 793 ORA-06512: at line 2" This results from an Oracle bug in 8.1.7.0.0 and 8.1.7.1.0. Workaround: Upgrade to Oracle version 8.1.7.2.0 or later, or see Oracle Metalink Note:124671.1 for details of how to fix the package. |
N/A |
| General |
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:
|
N/A |
| Code Analysis | Saving results to a database: When dealing with nested procedures, CodeXpert can only insert run data from procs one level deep. | N/A |
| Code Analysis |
Saving PL/SQL results to a database may fail or save invalid data to the database for invalid PL/SQL objects. Workaround: To ensure PL/SQL results are saved to the database correctly, verify the validity of all objects before running CodeXpert. |
N/A |
| Connections | While Toad supports LDAP connectivity, some features of Toad depend on tnsnames.ora file to operate correctly. These features include but may not be limited to Quest Script Runner, Database Browser, and Service Manager. | N/A |
| Data Grids |
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. 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. |
N/A |
| Editor |
When file splitting is used in the Editor, Code Analysis does not automatically check the code in the Editor. Workaround: Click the "Analyze Code in Editor" button. |
ST85604 |
| Editor |
Toad errors when you query on a field of Oracle collection types. Workaround: Execute using SQL*Plus. |
ST64373 |
| Editor |
When spooling to an unpinned output window, the window becomes unresponsive and errors are given when Toad is closed ("Canvas does not allow drawing"). Workaround: Keep the output window pinned. |
ST68523 |
| Editor | If you select object tables with nested VARRAYs, the statement is busy and cannot be aborted. | ST62336 |
| Editor | Toad Insight (Code Assist) is activated in comments, which may decrease Toad's performance. | ST64254 |
| Editor |
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. Workaround: Go to Options | Scripts and select a fixed-width font for script output. |
ST62234 |
| Import/Export |
Exporting data grid cells of over approximately 800 bytes could cause "OLE error 800A03EC" for Microsoft Office 2003 when using the "XLS Instance" option. Workaround: Save using the "XLS file" option instead. |
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| Import/Export | Constraint scripts from Export DDL do not contain the "using index" or "tablespace" clause. | ST59228 |
| 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. 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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| Schema Browser |
For data in tables, changing the order of the columns in the "View/edit query" popup does not change the order of the columns in the grid. Renaming a column in the "View/edit query" popup moves the renamed column one position to the left. The renamed column will not be editable. Workaround: Use drag-and-drop in the grid to change the column order. |
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Session Browser does not work with Oracle version 8.1.5. Workaround: Upgrade to supported Oracle version 8.1.7 or later. |
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| Session Browser | 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 |
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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. Workaround: Clear the "Use RAC Views" checkbox, and log into the appropriate instance of the database, if necessary. |
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| Team Coding |
When using Microsoft Team Foundation Server, customers may receive an "Unable to get revision from VCS repository" error followed by "VCS archive is empty". This error generally occurs if customers use different workspaces when logged in to TFS. Workaround: See Quest Support Solution SOL74899. |
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| Team Coding | Team Coding is disabled for mixed-case object names. | N/A |
| Team Coding |
Team Coding and SourceSafe:
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| Team Coding |
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. Workaround: See "Missing CVS\Entries File Error" in the online help. |
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| Team Coding | Team Coding and StarTeam: If you cancel the login dialog for StarTeam, you will not be able to log in to StarTeam until you restart Toad. | N/A |
| Team Coding |
Team Coding and PVCS:
Workaround: Close and re-open Toad before attempting to connect to a different PVCS database. If simultaneous connections to two different PVCS databases are required, this can be achieved by opening a second copy of Toad. |
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| Team Coding | 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 |
The following features in Toad do not support Unicode:
In addition, Java itself does not allow Unicode class names or file names. This is relevant to the Java Manager, Editor, and Schema Browser. |
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| Unicode | Connections to Service Names with Unicode Characters are not supported. | N/A |
| Unicode |
The Editor does not fully handle Unicode words, and as a result highlight object names, CTRL + Click, and mousing over watch hints may not work. Workaround: The fix is to change a regular expression in the PL/SQL language parser. New installations will not have this issue, but the language parser is not applied for upgrading users (so you do not lose any language parser customizations). If you are upgrading, you need to modify the PL/SQL language parser and add "?r)" (without quotes) to the beginning of the “Any name" parser rule’s expression if you want full Unicode object name support. For detailed instructions, please see the Unicode Troubleshooting topic in the Help file. |
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| Unicode | Script Execution in Editor: Error offset can be incorrect when running scripts with multi-byte object names. | N/A |
| Unicode | XML (Plain) format creates bad XML if Unicode string values and Unicode column names are exported through Export Dataset. | N/A |
| Unicode |
Import mapping for Unicode characters is incorrect if the characters are not a fixed width (such as Korean). |
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| Unicode | 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 |
| Virtualization | An access violation error may display when you close Toad in a Citrix XenApp environment. | ST76354 |
The following is a list of third party issues known to exist at the time of this Toad for Oracle release.
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| Help |
(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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| E-Control (Editor component) | Odd word-wrapping behavior in some languages. Word wrapping may appear between symbols, with no space required to wrap, and some characters cannot be word-wrapped at all (for example, multi-byte characters in ANSI text). | N/A |
| ODAC |
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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Upgrades for Toad 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 you are asked to migrate previous settings files.
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.
This feature has been deprecated:
Before installing Toad, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
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1 GB RAM required for 32-bit 2 GB RAM required for 64-bit Note: The memory required may vary based on the following:
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Windows Server 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows XP (32-bit and 64-bit) 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 (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows Server 2012 (64-bit) |
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Oracle Client 9.2.0.8 Oracle Client or Instant Client 10.2.0.3/10.2.0.4 Oracle Client or Instant Client 11.2.0.1/11.2.0.3 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. |
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Oracle 8.0.6; 8.1.7; 9i; 9i R2; 10g; 10g R2; 11g, 11g R2 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. |
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Oracle databases running on Amazon EC2 |
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| 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 used by the current IPv4 to route packets over the Internet. Toad for Oracle features such as FTP access the Internet through third-party vendors such as /nSoftware's IP*Works that are IPv6 compliant. For access to Web sites by way of the Toad Online window, Toad simply invokes the user-defined or default Web browser. | ||||
| Additional Software |
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later (to view the Release Notes) Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or later (to view the Installation Guide) |
Before installing Toad, review the following for virtualization support:
| Application Virtualization |
Citrix XenApp 5.0 has been tested. |
| Desktop Virtualization (VDI) |
Quest vWorkspace 7.0 has been tested. |
| Server Virtualization |
Oracle VM 3.1 has been tested. VMware ESX Server 3.5 has been tested. |
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Note: Toad may work in virtualization environments other than the ones listed. |
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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 local 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.
This release has the following known capabilities or limitations: Toad 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 Toad release package contains the following products:
Toad for Oracle 11.6.1
Note: Toad is available in different editions. The release package includes the edition that you purchased.
Refer to the Toad for Oracle Installation Guide for installation instructions.
Get the latest product information, find helpful resources, and join a discussion with the Toad team and other community members. Join the Toad for Oracle community or visit ToadWorld for more information about Toad.
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