--- description: Review of Toad Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice Ireland. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Toad | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice IE --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Database Software](/directory/4512/database-management-systems/software) > [Toad](/software/451160/Database-Management-Solutions) # Toad Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/451160/Database-Management-Solutions Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/451160/Database-Management-Solutions?page=2) > Toad is a suite of database management software tools. It simplifies the complexity of database administration and development. The software automates routine tasks. It provides high-quality data to help organizations manage, monitor, and move their data across on-premises and cloud-based systems. Toad serves a range of industries, from financial services to healthcare. It empowers database professionals to streamline operations, optimize performance, and ensure regulatory compliance. Toad's features include database performance monitoring. This consolidates and standardizes monitoring across multiple platforms. It provides a complete view of the environment. The software also enables advantages for database developers. It helps them overcome bottlenecks in writing, testing, and releasing database changes. Additionally, Toad simplifies the discovery, protection, and auditing of personal and sensitive data across Oracle and SQL Server databases. This ensures organizations meet regulatory requirements. Toad's database replication solutions drive greater data availability, whether on-premises or in the cloud. By continuously replicating data from one database server to another, Toad helps organizations achieve high availability and business continuity. This avoids interrupting end-user productivity. With Toad, database professionals can spend less time managing their data environment and more time building a data-driven business. > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 28 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 28 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Quest Software - **Location**: Round Rock, US - **Founded**: 1987 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$625.00 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free Trial) - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 210 more ## Features - Access Controls/Permissions - Backup and Recovery - Data Dictionary Management - Data Migration - Data Replication - Data Storage Management - Data Synchronisation - Data Virtualization - Multiple Programming Languages Supported - Performance Analysis - Relational Database Management ## Support Options - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Database Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4512/database-management-systems/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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It makes your system slow when you use the software as it has plenty of features. Even sometimes it crash it freeze whole windows. > > I work as developer for one of the oracle project and running oracle from command prompt is a pain. Specially writing big SQL procedures and functions of 1000 plus lines. Toad is a savior for us. ----- ### "SQL Development, tuning and testing" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *7 August 2021* | Insurance | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Commonly used SQL code color coded for ease of writing very fine formatted code. > > **Cons**: Expectations to know how to modify ODBC connections and TNSNAMES ----- ### "A Great tool that DBA and developer can not live without" — 4.0/5 > **Sam** | *24 December 2022* | Logistics & Supply Chain | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: this software is easy to upgrade, configure and install > > **Cons**: the performance analyzing is not as good as the database itself. TOAD does not generate accurate exeuction play for oracle > > TOAD is a great tool that benefit my daily life as oracle DBA. I can easily browse any database objects and pull DDLs from database. TOAD is easy to setup and use ----- ### "Toad for Oracle is my go to\!" — 5.0/5 > **Tonya** | *16 September 2024* | Textiles | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The Easy and Efficiency of Use of Toad for Oracle. > > **Cons**: I wish I could manage more than one database platform in one product rather than having multiple products if possible. > > My overall experience is that Oracle for Toad is the preferred tool to use for Oracle database developers and Administrators. ----- ### "Working with Toad" — 5.0/5 > **Muhammad Humza** | *7 February 2023* | Higher Education | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: It is very easy to use specially when it comes to day to day operations likeWorking with Database connections is simple. Simple user interface Powerful Debug ToolsExcellent plan breakdowns Outstanding customer service and training. Generating scripts for table/procedures etc is very simple.Simple access to various instances and schemas. Monitoring capabilities for running packages. > > **Cons**: This tool meets almost all of my requirements. I mostly need more time to get in and take advantage of its current features. > > My overall experience is very good, as this software meets my most of the requirements, It helped me performing my day to day tasks quickly. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/451160/Database-Management-Solutions?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/451160/Database-Management-Solutions) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data