TOAD empowers developers and DBAs to be more productive by providing an intuitive graphical user interface to Oracle. TOAD is a powerful, low-overhead tool that makes PL/SQL development faster and easier and simplifies database administration tasks.

Advanced editors allow users to work on multiple files simultaneously — even different file types such as SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, Java and text. Hot keys, auto-correct, type-ahead, syntax highlighting, version control and numerous other productivity features speed development, while editing and testing are made easier with integrated result sets, explain plans, tracing, and DBMS_OUTPUT views.

Advanced SQL Editor includes hot keys, auto-correct and type-ahead features for faster coding
Multi-tabbed Procedure Editor allows developers to work on multiple files in parallel using SCC-compliant version control
Compact, multi-tabbed Schema Browser allows you to quickly navigate and manage database objects
SQL Modeler enables quick building of complex queries with an easy-to-use GUI
Server and session statistics, including calculated statistics and tuning hints, provide quick viewing of the server environment
Quest DBA Module allows users to compare and synchronize database schemas, manage space, import/export data and much more

TOAD Standard Edition — Provides everything the Oracle professional needs to develop code, build and manage database objects. TOAD Standard also includes powerful offline syntax checking and code formatting provided by Formatter Plus.

TOAD Professional Edition — Includes all features of TOAD Standard plus an integrated PL/SQL Debugger for troubleshooting stored database code.

TOAD Xpert Edition — All of the features and functionality of TOAD Professional plus our Xpert SQL tuning functionality. Xpert Tuning allows developers to analyze and automatically rewrite inefficient SQL queries while they are being built.

TOAD Suite — All of the features and functionality of TOAD Xpert plus the DBA and Knowledge Xpert add-on modules, DataFactory Developer Edition, to quickly populate databases with meaningful test data, Benchmark Factory for Oracle to provide load testing of code against the database, QDesigner PhysicalArchitect to reverse engineer, define, design, and deploy a database schema. This complete development suite provides all the tools necessary to design, develop, test and manage your database.

Optional Add-on Modules: Extend the reach of TOAD with powerful add-ons designed to provide intelligence and help automate PL/SQL development and management.