I should have paid more attention to the reviews by recent reviewers prior to purchasing this book. If you're using any Toad version after 7.x, you're not going get much out of this book.

And, overall, I found the book to be poorly organized and hard to follow.

The book doesn't cover the current version of the product. If it is the only source of help for TOAD, then it doesn't help as the product is not at all like the book's version.

Great Book, Easy to read and well organized however the materials were for version 7.4 and the current release is 9.6.

I've been using TOAD for a few years, but like most users, tended to only use a few of the controls. I knew the product could do more, and could probably be more useful, but I never had the time to explore.

This book suits my purposes well. From just reading the first part of the book I was able to customise and de-clutter screens which was of immediate benefit. The book is well-suited to jumping in to relevant sections and skipping others of less interest. Whenever I have a few minutes to spare, I can usually browse through the book and find some feature that I wasn't aware of.

While I enjoy the brevity and straightforwardness of the Toad Pocket Reference for Oracle, this book really gave a lot of insight as to WHY and HOW I could use Toad to accomplish my daily tasks with Toad.

It was also great to see that the things I'm doing as an Oracle professional are in line with what Bert and Dan are advocating.

While I enjoy the brevity and straightforwardness of the Toad Pocket Reference for Oracle, this book really gave a lot of insight as to WHY and HOW I could use Toad to accomplish my daily tasks with Toad.

It was also great to see that the things I'm doing as an Oracle professional are in line with what Bert and Dan are advocating.

Useful book for users new to TOAD, especially those who don't want to or have the time to play and feel their way around products or software that are new to them.
Not something without which one cannot survive but something that is really useful to keep handy.

For most TOAD users, a decent general purpose reference for understanding TOAD's plethora of features - especially the DBA module's more advanced screens, wizards and utilities.