On October 31, 2016, the sale was finalized. In June 2016, Dell announced the sale of their software division, including the Quest business, to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management Corporation. Quest Software itself was acquired by Dell in 2012 to form Dell Software. Quest Software acquired TOAD in October 1998. McDaniel initially distributed the tool as shareware and later online as freeware. He called it Tool for Oracle Application Developers, shortened to 'TOAD'. A Toad product for data preparation supports many data platforms.Ī practicing Oracle DBA, Jim McDaniel, designed Toad for his own use in the mid-1990s. The Toad toolset runs against Oracle, SQL Server, IBM DB2 (LUW & z/OS), SAP and MySQL. Toad is a database management toolset from Quest Software for managing relational and non-relational databases using SQL aimed at database developers, database administrators, and data analysts. JSTOR ( September 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.

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