Toad® for Oracle® 2017 Editions

Release Notes
Revised 9/29/2017

Contents

About Toad® for Oracle® 2017 Editions 2

Product release notes 4

Installation 5

System requirements 6
Hardware requirements 6
Database requirements 7
Network 8
Additional requirements 8
Virtualization support 9
Windows Privileges 9

Product licensing 10

About us 11
Contacting Quest 11
Technical support resources 11

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 About Toad® for Oracle® 2017
Editions
Each Edition in Toad for Oracle 2017 Editions is packaged with additional products to expand your Oracle
experience. The following editions are available.

Toad for Oracle Base Edition Toad for Oracle Professional Edition

l Toad® for Oracle® l Toad® for Oracle® Professional

l Toad™ Data Modeler (free use) l Toad™ Data Modeler (free use)

Toad for Oracle Xpert Edition Toad for Oracle Developer Edition

l Toad® for Oracle® Xpert l Toad® for Oracle® Xpert

Includes all features in Base and Professional
Editions l Code Tester for Oracle®

l SQL Optimizer for Oracle® l Benchmark Factory® for Databases - Oracle

Edition

Toad for Oracle DBA Edition Toad for Oracle DBA RAC Edition

l Toad® for Oracle® Xpert l Toad® for Oracle® Xpert

l DB Admin Module Add-on l DB Admin Module Add-on

l Spotlight on Oracle® l Spotlight on Oracle® with RAC Option
Includes Spotlight on Unix/Linux, Spotlight on Includes Spotlight on Unix/Linux, Spotlight on
Windows, and Spotlight on Oracle Data Guard Windows, and Spotlight on Oracle Data
Guard
l Benchmark Factory® for Databases - Oracle
Edition l Benchmark Factory® for Databases - Oracle
Edition
l Toad® Data Modeler
l Toad® Data Modeler

Toad for Oracle DBA Exadata Edition

l Toad® for Oracle® Xpert

l DB Admin Module Add-on

l Spotlight on Oracle® with RAC and Exadata
Options
Includes Spotlight on Unix/Linux, Spotlight on
Windows, and Spotlight on Oracle® Data
Guard
l Benchmark Factory® for Databases - Oracle
Edition
l Toad® Data Modeler

NOTES:

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l Knowledge Xpert has been moved to a free online wiki,
http://www.toadworld.com/platforms/oracle/default.aspx. Toad components which use the desktop
version of Knowledge Xpert have been updated to reference the online content.
l The DB Admin Module can be added to any Toad Edition.

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 Product release notes
Full release notes are available for the following products. Go to https://support.quest.com/technical-documents
and then select the product from the list.

l Toad for Oracle

l SQL Optimizer for Oracle
l Code Tester for Oracle
l Benchmark Factory for Database
l Spotlight on Oracle
l Toad Data Modeler

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 Installation
You can install the software offered in the Toad for Oracle 2017 Editions in one of the following ways:

l Web-based installer: Use the Toad for Oracle 2017 Editions Web Installer to install any, or all, of the
products of an Edition at once. This installer is a web-based thin client that determines the available
products of an Edition based on a supplied license key, then downloads and installs the ones that you
select. For more information, see the Toad for Oracle 2017 Editions Installation Guide at
https://support.quest.com/technical-documents.
l Full installer: Install any or all of the products of an Edition from a server in your organization by running
the Toad for Oracle 2017 Editions Full Installer. This installer contains all of the installation files for the
products of an Edition. It supports administrators who need to provide installation programs from a
central location to multiple users. For more information, see the Toad for Oracle 2017 Editions
Installation Guide at https://support.quest.com/technical-documents.
l Read-only installation: Install a Read-only version of Toad for Oracle. This version prevents the user
from making any changes to the database, regardless of his or her actual Oracle privileges. See the
Toad for Oracle Installation Guide at https://support.quest.com/technical-documents.
l Standalone MSI: Run a silent installation from the command line by running a standalone MSI installer
file for a specific product in an Edition. A silent installation enables you to deploy Toad for Oracle
Editions products to multiple machines. To perform a silent installation of a product, see the
documentation for that product at https://support.quest.com/technical-documents.

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 System requirements
This section contains the hardware, software, and privileges required to run Toad for Oracle and related
products, as well as the database and virtual environments that Toad supports.

Hardware requirements
Requirement Details

Processor 1 GHz processor (Spotlight requires 1.2 GHz processor)

Memory l 1 GB RAM - Toad for Oracle 32 bit

l 2 GB RAM - Toad for Oracle 64 bit

Toad Data Modeler requires 1 GB but recommends 4 GB.

NOTE: The memory required may vary based on the following: 

l Applications that are running on your system

l Size and complexity of the database
l Amount of database activity
l Number of concurrent users accessing the database

Hard disk space By Toad Edition:

l 800 MB - Toad for Oracle Base Edition

l 530 MB - Toad for Oracle Professional Edition
l 625 MB - Toad for Oracle Xpert Edition
l 1 GB - Toad for Oracle Developer Edition
l 2 GB - Toad for Oracle DBA Edition
l 2 GB - Toad for Oracle DBA RAC Edition and Toad for Oracle DBA
Exadata Edition

By product:

l 120 MB - Toad for Oracle 32 bit

l 150 MB - Toad for Oracle 64 bit
l 120 MB - Benchmark Factory™ for Databases - Oracle Edition
l 100 MB - Code Tester for Oracle®
l 1GB - Spotlight™ on Oracle®
l 180 MB - SQL Optimizer for Oracle® (32-bit)
l 217 MB - SQL Optimizer for Oracle® (64-bit)
l 400 MB (1 GB recommended) - Toad™ Data Modeler

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Requirement Details

Operating system l Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)

l Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit) - 2 CPU required
l Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) - 2 CPU required
l Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
l Windows 8 and 8.1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
l Windows Server 2012 (32-bit and 64-bit) - 2 CPU required
l Windows Server 2012 R1 and R2 (64-bit) - 2 CPU required
l Windows Server 2016
l Windows 10

Database requirements
Requirement Details

Database client An Oracle client must be installed and configured on the system where
you are running Toad. The following are supported:

l Oracle Client or Instant Client 10.2.0.5

l Oracle Client or Instant Client 11.2.0.1/11.2.0.3
l Oracle Client or Instant Client 12c Release 1 and 2

NOTE: You must use the 32-bit version of Toad with the 32-bit Oracle
client, and the 64-bit version of Toad with the 64-bit Oracle client.

Database server Oracle versions:

l 10g, 10g R2
l 11g, 11g R2
l 12c Release 1 and 2

Exadata:
Toad has been tested on Oracle Exadata 2.0 running Oracle database
11g R2.
IMPORTANT: It is recommended that your client version be of the same
release (or later) as your database server. This is an Oracle
recommendation to prevent performance issues.
Exceptions by product:

l Benchmark Factory requires 9i or later.

l Code Tester requires 9.2.0.6 or later.
l SQL Optimizer requires 8.1.7 or later.
l Toad Data Modeler requires 9i or later.

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 Requirement Details

Cloud database service Oracle Database as a Service on Amazon EC2 and Oracle Cloud
Exceptions by product:

l Benchmark Factory has not been tested for Oracle Database as a

Service on Amazon EC2.
l Toad Data Modeler does not support Oracle Database as a
Service.

Network
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is being adopted by the US Federal Government and industries around the
world. In its most basic format, the new protocol uses 128-bit addresses instead of 32-bit addresses, which are
used by the current IPv4 to route packets over the Internet. Toad for Oracle features, such as FTP, access the
Internet through third-party vendors that are IPv6 compliant, such as /nSoftware's IP*Works. For access to Web
sites by way of the Toad Online window, Toad simply invokes the user-defined or default Web browser.

Additional requirements
Requirement Details

Additional Software l Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later (to view video from the
Jump list within Toad, and to view the product documentation in
HTML format).
l Microsoft Office 2016 and recent earlier releases are supported for
Word and Excel output.
l Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or later (to view the product
documentation in PDF format).
l Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 to support the Toad for Oracle
Editions Installer.

Microsoft .NET Framework requirements per product

l Spotlight on Oracle: .NET Framework 3.5 (Service Pack 1 or later)

l SQL Optimizer: .NET Framework 4.0 Full Profile
l Toad Data Modeler: .NET Framework version 3.5 on first
application start

Additional requirements Spotlight requires:

l Monitor capable of supporting a resolution of 1280x1024 or larger.

You should also set the display to use the 64K color palette
(65536 colors).
l Toad for Oracle DBA RAC Edition support up to 16 instances in a
cluster, with a theoretical limit of 36 instances.

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Virtualization support
Type Details

Application virtualization Citrix® XenApp

Desktop virtualization (VDI) Dell™ vWorkspace™ 7.0 has been tested.

Exceptions by product:

l Spotlight: tested on desktop VMware® workstations.

l Toad Data Modeler: To avoid printing problems, the virtual printer
must be installed directly on vWorkspace.

Server virtualization Oracle VM 3.1 has been tested.

Exceptions by product:

l Benchmark Factory for Databases - Oracle Edition has not been

tested.
l Spotlight has been tested on VMware ESX server™.
Spotlight supports Oracle Virtualization (OVM). Limited testing has
been done using Oracle VM 3.0.

VMware ESX Server 3.5, 4.0, and 5.5 have been tested.
Exceptions by product:

l Benchmark Factory has not been tested.

l Code Tester has not been tested.
l Toad Data Modeler has been tested using VMware Server 3.0.

NOTE: Toad may work in virtualization environments other than the ones listed.

Windows Privileges
In order to install and run Toad, make a connection, and do basic operations, you must have the following
privileges.

Operating System Requirements

Windows Vista l Read access to the Oracle client folder

Windows 7 l Read/write privileges on the Oracle Home directories that you use
for your connections

Windows 8 and later l Read access to the Oracle client folder

Windows Server 2012 and l Read/write privileges on the Oracle Home directories that you use
2016 for your connections

NOTE: Other functionality in Toad may require additional privileges.

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 Product licensing
To activate a trial
1. Go to the trial download web page: https://www.quest.com/products/toad-for-oracle/software-
downloads.aspx, accessed through the product page.
2. Select the Toad for Oracle Edition that you want to try.
3. Log in to your account or register.
4. Accept the license terms.
5. Download the trial file.

To activate a purchased commercial license

1. Go to the Quest Support website: https://support.quest.com/
2. Type the name of the product that you want to activate in the Enter your product to find support field.
3. Select Download New Releases.
4. Download the installer file.

NOTES:

l License keys compatible with Toad for Oracle 9.7 and earlier versions are no longer supported.
l Beginning with Toad for Oracle 12.5, only the newer 48-character license keys are supported.
l If you have an older license type, the Editions installer points you to the license web page where you
can update it.

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We are challenging the status quo by transforming into a new software company. And as your partner, we work
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Contacting Quest
For sales or other inquiries, visit www.quest.com/contact.

Technical support resources

Technical support is available to Quest customers with a valid maintenance contract and customers who have
trial versions. You can access the Quest Support Portal at https://support.quest.com.
The Support Portal provides self-help tools you can use to solve problems quickly and independently, 24 hours
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l View how-to-videos
l Engage in community discussions

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Toad for Oracle Release Notes

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Version - 2017 Editions

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