If UAC is off, silent installs work well, but if UAC is on, it may cause issues for Toad versions 8.0 through 9.7. Due to this limitation, many customers use the silent install method to push out Toad installs over their network. It is fairly well known among customers familiar with Toad that one must have administrator rights to install the software on Windows. Many home users of Vista and Windows 7 also turn this off, but in a strict corporate environment, it may not be an option. Issue 1 Product Installation As mentioned above, Windows UAC was turned off during our tests. Toad for Oracle Compatibility with Windows 7 Revealed 4Ħ Possible Issues This section summarizes the issues the Toad QA team found when testing older versions of Toad on Windows 7. The testing process involved using the product to perform common tasks, such as: Installing and launching Toad Connecting to and disconnecting from the Oracle database server Doing basic Editor, Schema Browser, Query Builder, and Session Browser tasks HTML reports Using utilities such as FTP and scheduling Importing and exporting Oracle table data to and from external files Manipulating data grids PL/SQL profiling and debugging PLEASE NOTE: Since these tests were only carried out on a limited number of features, there may be additional functionality in these older versions of Toad for Oracle that does not work correctly on Windows 7. All testing was conducted on Oracle 10g server/client (the latest Oracle version supported by Toad 9.0). For consistency with earlier versions of Toad running on earlier versions of Windows, testing was carried out on Windows 7 32-bit (to avoid any variables with running on 64-bit). Toad user had full administrator privileges and User Account Control (UAC) turned off. Toad for Oracle Compatibility with Windows 7 Revealed 3ĥ Testing The following criteria were established prior to testing Toad on Windows 7: 1. Following extensive testing by our Toad QA team, the following is a summary of the extent to which different versions of Toad will function on Windows 7. This document outlines issues you may find when running Toad versions 8.0 through 9.7 on the then-unsupported Windows 7 operating system. Toad versions 8.0 and 8.5 were not certified on Windows Vista, which presents even more issues. Since Windows 7 and Windows Vista are very similar operating systems, it is presumable that Toad can work on Windows 7 as far back as Toad 9.1, but with some minor issues. Toad for Oracle officially started supporting Windows 7 in version Toad version 9.1 officially began support for Windows Vista. This has led some Toad for Oracle customers to inquire about support for different versions of Toad on Windows 7 in order to decide whether they should upgrade to the latest version of Toad. Toad for Oracle Compatibility with Windows 7 Revealed 2Ĥ Introduction Many companies are either migrating their enterprise desktops to the Microsoft Windows 7 platform, or they re considering doing so. Testing commonly used functionality resulted in the discovery of some very specific limitations, which are described in this technical brief. Therefore, Quest cannot guarantee that all functionality will work properly when using Toad versions prior to 10.1 on Windows 7 machines. Toad for Oracle officially began supporting Windows 7 in v10.1. 9 About the Author Toad for Oracle Compatibility with Windows 7 Revealed 1ģ Abstract Quest Software conducted a variety of tests on early versions of Toad for Oracle, including 8.0, 8.5, 9.0, 9.1, 9.5, 9.6, and 9.7, to gain a better perspective on its compatibility with the Windows 7 operating system. 7 So Which Versions of Toad Actually Support Windows 7?. 1 Toad for Oracle Compatibility with Windows 7 Revealed Written by John Pocknell Quest Software TECHNICAL BRIEFĢ Contents Contents.
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