Toad for direct data analysis
February 28, 2018

Toad for direct data analysis

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Toad for Oracle

Within my team we use Toad to view data in Oracle tables and easily slice and dice it for analysis purposes. I am not a technical person that has the ability to write complex SQL to view the data within tables so I have to rely heavily on the schema browser with Toad to view the data. This allows me to quickly filter on data in specific tables to get the information with ease.
  • Great interface to filter on data in tables with ease using the UI
  • The options for exporting a table subset of data to an excel or text file is great. There are a lot of options to choose from with the date fields and how to handle number of records, null values, conversion of field types to others and ability to update the where clause for pulling the data
  • The sql generator interface is great for a non-technical person to drag and drop tables, fields, and where clauses and run queries
  • Possible improvement of the schema browser capabilities. I know that this is not the primary use of this software but if there were a few more features with the schema browser we could use this for a lot more data analysis versus having to go to Tableau or Hyperion reporting.
  • The process of adding tnsnames to the oracle file through Toad could be a little more user friendly.
  • Have a way to protect your PASSWORD file within TOAD. This file has a tendency to get overwritten or removed frequently making you loose all your saved connections within TOAD.
  • Quick tool to get right at the data and not have to waste valuable time creating reports through other tools.
  • We don't have to have other teams create reports for us as we can go straight to the table data
  • This product is a one stop shop for a large array of individuals within an organization; database admins, data modelers, analysts.
This is much easier to get directly at the data whereas with Tableau and Hyperion you have to have a report created. For my specific team we do not have the ability to create reports so we have to rely on another team to create the reports with takes time and money.
Our team has started to go directly to the data with Toad versus using a reporting tool like Hyperion or Tableau. This allows us to cut out the reporting aspect and go directly to the data. This review is tailored to a non technical group of people. With a little bit of training the tool is extremely useful for anyone trying to slice and dice data quickly.

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