Re: PL/SQL Development Tool Of Choice

  • From: Norman Dunbar <oracle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:47:44 +0100

On 18/07/12 16:11, Kellyn Pot'vin wrote:
> Now I have to say, and this goes for most tools, that when I stated I would 
> like to see TOAD go on a diet, I meant all the extra calls it makes to 
> provide the user every piece of data at their fingertips, even when all they 
> want is one, small bit of information.
> Let's say a developer is in TOAD and wants to see the name of table 'XYZ'.  
> When they click on it, TOAD also gathers for them, (just in case) all the 
> column information, size information, extents, dependencies, partitions, 
> constraints, etc.  This kind of added querying has a cost overall to the 
> performance of the data dictionary and to a performance tuning DBA, if I 
> start seeing waits on my TAB$, ICOL$, SEG$, IND$, etc. tables, then I'm going 
> to want to know why this has started.
> ....

I've forwarded a copy of Kellyn's email to the Toad Developers for 
comment. Hope you don't mind. Knowing them, if there is a problem, they 
will fix it PDQ.


Cheers,
Norm.

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