Toad connects directly to this 'collective intelligence' feature, to deliver global statistics in real-time and continuous, ongoing analysis and reporting on existing data. Project Lucy enables DBAs to upload, analyze, and compare their performance metrics with the community, helping them determine what is (and isn't) the norm based on the experiences of their peers working in similar environments. Project Lucy is an online analytical resource for DBAs that offers insight on system and data performance. Toad for Oracle 11.5 also integrates with Project Lucy and Toad World. This release includes an enhanced query builder, workspace management, greater control of Toad Editor tabs, and enhanced code completion. Many of the updates to Toad for Oracle 11.5 are based on user feedback from the Toad Idea Pond, a forum in which ideas are submitted and voted on by the Toad user community for inclusion in future releases of the tool. 'The major enhancement is our integration with the social aspect so that users of Toad will be able to fully leverage the best ideas, practices, and methodology to become more productive than they ever were before,' Whittaker tells 5 Minute Briefing. With Toad for Oracle 11.5, Quest has implemented social intelligence into the tool itself.

'The secret to success for Toad has always been the fact that we're so community-built and driven by our millions of users,' says John Whittaker, senior manager of product marketing for database management at Quest. Toad for Oracle 11.5, Quest contends, will allow users to take advantage of the best ideas and practices from the community and further increase user productivity. Drawing on community feedback from their two million users, Quest has introduced a number of new features and improvements, most notably a new social intelligence component. Quest Software has released version 11.5 of its Toad for Oracle software, the flagship product in the Toad portfolio of productivity software for database developers, DBAs, and analysts.

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