Management have been grumbling about the cost of TOAD Professional
licenses, and have been "recommended" a cheaper product called PL/SQL Developer
by Allround Automations (available from Inthink Corporation at $150 a pop). Now,
I've been to the product website, and read up on all its features, and it
basically looks like a nice enough product, but aimed squarely at PL/SQL
developers, rather than including all the DBA-oriented goodies we find in TOAD.
My first reaction is to respond by saying "fine, give it to the developers to
replace their copies of TOAD, if they find it adequate for development, but it's
not a DBA tool, so I'll keep my TOAD Xpert with DBA module, thanks very
much!".
But if
anyone on the list has tried both products, I'd be interested to know what you
think. Is it as usable as TOAD Professional for developers? Does it have hidden
charms which would make it a suitable replacement for DBA use? How responsive
are the product developers to requests for enhancements? Any input is very
welcome!
Paul
Vincent
DBA
University of Central England
