Nope, pure junk - updated 6/16/2016
Update 6/16/2016 - Still not ready for real production use. I gave version 2.4.2 a try, albeit with much lower expectations. This time around, it took a long time for TOAD to connect to the backend Oracle database, via direct host connection not using sqlnet. Probably took 30-40 seconds before the connection actually succeeded, to the point I was dropped into an editor window. Started playing a bit, noticed there is still no Export to Excel option, a very useful feature in my work. Then after a few minutes, the fan on my macbook cranked up loudly. Running Activity Monitor, I see TOAD burning up to 400% cpu, and staying sky-high. That was while TOAD was basically idle, after I had done just one simple Select statement. I quit TOAD and the cpu came back to normal. Still not ready for prime-time.
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Nice that Dell took a shot at creating TOAD for the rapidly exploding OSX user community, but this effort should be considered an abject failure at this point, including the 2.3.0 version. Functionality is VERY limited, the application doesn’t have any design flow, it’s just a cobbled together group of limited functions. I’d happily pay for a quality Mac version of TOAD, but this thing is pure absolute garbage right now. Oracle’s free SQL-Developer for OSX is far superior. It just seems that the Dell TOAD for OSX is a side pet project for someone who is trying to learn how to program in the OSX environment, and not a serious effort by a professional team. Honestly Dell, unless you’re going to be serious about this product, just please stop, you’re embarassing yourselves.
I updated this review on 10/29/2015 to reflect the latest release 2.3.0.
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Toad, v2.4.2