

Quest Software acquired TOAD in October 1998. McDaniel initially distributed the tool as shareware and later online as freeware.

He called it Tool for Oracle Application Developers, shortened to "TOAD". A Toad product for data preparation supports many data platforms.Ī practicing Oracle DBA, Jim McDaniel, designed Toad for his own use in the mid-1990s. The Toad toolset runs against Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2 (LUW & z/OS), SAP and MySQL. Toad is a database management toolset from Quest Software for managing relational and non-relational databases using SQL aimed at database developers, database administrators, and data analysts.

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