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Toad Licensing Costs

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The Toad program has a nice plug-in for performance tuning, whereas with the Oracle tool you have to switch over to Grid Control or their application server. Floyd Absher, database administrator, Progressive Medical Inc.

Database professionals said that while Toad software is more mature and offers more features, it's hard to ignore the price for SQL Developer. Oracle said the tool is available free of charge without restriction. 'I find that [SQL Developer is] very similar to Toad, but the cost is right,' said Chris Tryon, a Project Raptor beta tester and manager of programming at Hatch Mott MacDonald, an engineering consulting firm based in Milburn, New Jersey. Raptor is offered in both freeware and commercial versions. But the Toad Freeware license comes with restrictions. The freeware license is available for up to five users within an organization and expires every 60 days, while commercial versions of Toad range from $870 to about $4900 per seat, according to Quest Software's Web site. Tryon said that one of the things he likes about SQL Developer over Toad is that Oracle is letting the user community develop plug-ins.

'I know they've already had people develop some plug-ins for it,' Tryon said. 'That's a lot better than what you can do with Toad. You can't build anything for Toad and share it with anybody else.' Floyd Absher, another Project Raptor beta tester and a database administrator with Progressive Medical Inc. In Westerville, Ohio, said that the full version of Toad offers a lot more functionality than SQL Developer. But he added that many of SQL Developer's gaps can be filled with other Oracle applications, such as those found in Enterprise Manager. 'The Toad program has a nice plug-in for performance tuning, whereas with the Oracle tool you have to switch over to Grid Control or their application server for performance tuning,' Absher said.