Installation Guide: Toad For Oracle 15.1
Installation Guide: Toad For Oracle 15.1
Installation Guide
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System Requirements 5
About these requirements 5
Hardware requirements 5
Database requirements 6
Network 7
Additional requirements 7
Virtualization support 7
Windows Privileges 8
Install Toad 9
Toad for Oracle installation options 9
Installation and operation guidelines 9
Preinstallation instructions for Citrix or Remote Desktop Services 10
Install Toad silently from the command line 11
Run the silent installation 11
Install licenses 11
Command-line options 12
Install Toad as read-only 14
Post-installation tasks 16
Apply license keys to bundled products 16
Import user settings 16
About us 21
Contacting Quest 21
Technical support resources 21
The Toad for Oracle solutions are built for you, by you. Nearly two decades of development and feedback from
various communities like Toad World have made it the most powerful and functional tool available. With an installed
base of over two million, Toad for Oracle continues to be the "de facto" standard tool for database development and
administration.
System Requirements
Hardware requirements
Requirement Details
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
l Oracle Client or Instant Client 18c
l Oracle Client or Instant Client 19c
l Oracle Client or Instant Client 21c
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.
Cloud database service Oracle Database as a Service on Amazon EC2 and Oracle Cloud
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.
Virtualization support
Type Details
NOTE: Toad may work in virtualization environments other than the ones listed.
NOTE: Toad for Oracle Subscription edition is bundled with Quest Auto Update, a service to periodically check for
and deliver product updates. Installation requires administrator privileges on all supported operating systems.
Install Toad
Typical installation
Use the Toad Editions Installer to install Toad, along with any or all of the other products of a Toad Edition. This
installer is available in the following formats:
l Web-based installer: This installer is a web-based thin client that automatically detects and downloads the
correct Toad installation files, based on your license key. At the same time, the installer detects any other
available Quest products in the Edition and allows you to select the ones to download and install.
l Full installer: This installer contains all of the installation files required to install Toad and any other
products of an Edition. It detects and shows the products in the Edition, based on your license key. This
installer supports administrators who need to provide installation programs from a central server to
multiple users.
Silent installation
You can perform a silent installation of Toad by running a standalone MSI installer. See Install Toad silently from the
command line in this guide.
Read-only installation
You can install a read-only version of Toad. See Install Toad as read-only in this guide.
NOTE: Toad for Oracle Subscription edition is bundled with Quest Auto Update, a service to periodically
check for and deliver product updates. Installation requires administrator privileges on all supported
operating systems.
Install licenses
Applies to legacy Toad for Oracle with offline license keys.
To install licenses on the target computers, you do the following:
l Create a Questkey.reg text file to specify each license key.
l Send the file to the target PC and import it to the Registry there.
1. Do not change the first two HKEY_CURRENT_USER lines. They are the key entries.
2. Replace the "REPLACE_WITH_(KEY | SITEMESSAGE | PRODUCTNAME | PRODUCTVERSION)" text
with the relevant information supplied with your license.
3. Add any additional licenses as required in the same file by replicating the last four lines and then applying
the correct information.
4. Save the file.
When the user runs Toad and any product installed with Toad, the software validates the license and removes the
entries from the Registry.
Toad (and any other product) is ready for use when the license is validated.
Command-line options
You can use the following command-line parameters when you silently install Toad:
/q n|b|r|f Sets the user interface level. Review the following options:
l q, qn—No UI
l qb—Basic UI. Use qb! to hide the Cancel button.
l qr—Reduced UI with no modal dialog box displayed
at the end of the installation.
l qf—Full UI and any authored FatalError, UserExit,
or Exit modal dialog boxes at the end.
l qn+—No UI except for a modal dialog box displayed
at the end.
l qb+—Basic UI with a modal dialog box displayed at
the end. The modal box does not display if you
cancel the installation. Use qb+! or qb!+ to hide the
Cancel button.
l qb- —Basic UI with no modal dialog boxes. Note
that /qb+- is not a supported UI level. Use qb-! or
qb!- to hide the Cancel button.
a. If launching the installer via the msiexec.exe command, include "READONLY=1" in the
command line. For example: msiexec /i ToadforOracle_GA_14.0.75.662_x64_
En.msi READONLY=1
b. Adding a "Read-Only" DWORD entry with a value of 1 to the following Registry location: HKEY_
LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Quest Software\Toad for Oracle\<version> (where in
this case, <version> = "14.0")
6. Review the license terms, select I accept these terms, then click Next.
7. If your license key is not shown, click Add to enter your license key and site message, then click Next.
8. Click Install.
Post-installation tasks
Cumulative licensing
You can add multiple licenses, including those for add-on packages like Sensitive Data Protection, to Toad. Toad
will use the licenses providing the highest degree of features.
1. On your old computer, open Windows Explorer and locate the Toad settings folder.
NOTE: To find the settings folder, select View | Toad Options | General. The folder location is listed in the
Application data directory field.
2. Copy the folder to the new computer, a network it can connect to, or a storage device.
3. Install and open Toad on the new computer.
Edition Licensed
Toad for Oracle Xpert Edition Toad® for Oracle® Xpert — Includes all features in Base and Professional
Editions
SQL Optimizer for Oracle®
Toad for Oracle DBA RAC Edition Toad® for Oracle® Xpert
DB Admin Module Add-on
Spotlight on Oracle® with RAC Option — Includes Spotlight on Unix/Linux,
Spotlight on Windows, and Spotlight on Oracle Data Guard
Benchmark Factory® for Databases - Oracle Edition
Toad® Data Modeler
Contacting Quest
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