Integrating Visual Expert with Toad for Oracle creates a powerful synergy that significantly enhances your ability to maintain and optimize Oracle PL/SQL code.
Each tool brings its unique strengths to the table, working together to provide a comprehensive solution for code performance and optimization. Here’s a comparison table that highlights the unique strengths of Toad for Oracle and Visual Expert for Oracle:
Combine Toad and Visual Expert for Oracle
Key Features: Toad v/s Visual Expert for Oracle
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Feature |
Toad for Oracle |
Visual Expert for Oracle |
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Data Retrieval |
Retrieves real-time data directly from the Oracle database, providing up-to-date insights based on the current state of the database. |
Generates its analysis data, allowing for a deeper, more comprehensive examination of the code at object and application levels. |
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Code Editing & Debugging |
Offers advanced code editing and debugging tools to identify and fix issues within the Oracle database quickly. |
Focuses on code analysis and review, identifying deeper structural issues, and offering recommendations for optimization. |
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Performance Optimization |
Provides immediate optimization suggestions based on real-time data, helping to improve database performance on the fly. |
Conducts in-depth performance analysis to uncover long-term bottlenecks and resource-intensive operations, enabling strategic optimizations. |
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Dependency Mapping |
Provides basic dependency insights based on real-time data. |
Offers advanced dependency mapping and impact analysis, revealing complex relationships and potential issues across the entire codebase. |
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Code Review |
Facilitates code reviews with real-time data, helping developers assess the immediate impact of changes. |
Enables continuous code inspection and review, ensuring code quality and security by detecting anomalies, code smells, and vulnerabilities. |
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Database Object Management |
Efficiently manages database objects and schemas, streamlining daily tasks for developers and DBAs. |
Generates detailed matrices (CRUD, Object Dependency) and call graphs to visualize data flow, object interactions, and code structure. |
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Optimization Focus |
Real-time optimizations focused on immediate database performance. |
Strategic optimizations focused on long-term code maintainability and reliability. |
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Integration in CI/CD Workflows |
Limited integration capabilities for continuous inspection in CI/CD pipelines. |
Integrates seamlessly with CI/CD workflows, allowing for automatic code inspections and ensuring continuous compliance with coding standards. |
Practical Applications of Integrating Visual Expert with Toad for Oracle
1. Daily Maintenance
Toad for Oracle:
- Retrieves real-time data from the Oracle database, providing immediate insights into the current state of the database.
- Facilitates quick edits and optimizations based on the latest data, ensuring the database runs at peak performance.
Visual Expert:
- Performs in-depth analysis of the entire codebase, identifying potential issues, dependencies, and areas for improvement that may take time to be apparent.
- Assists in assessing the broader impact of changes, ensuring that modifications are made with a clear understanding of their effects on the entire application.
Integration Outcome:
- Developers and analysts can make well-informed decisions based on real-time and comprehensive analysis, ensuring daily maintenance tasks are completed efficiently while maintaining code integrity.
2. Code Review
Toad for Oracle:
- Provides real-time data to assist in reviewing and debugging code, helping to identify and fix immediate issues quickly.
- Supports performance tuning and SQL optimization during the review process, ensuring that any changes made are efficient and effective.
Visual Expert:
- Offers a deeper examination of code structure, dependencies, and potential risks, going beyond what real-time data alone can reveal.
- Continuously inspects code for quality, security, and adherence to standards, helping to identify long-term issues such as code smells and architectural flaws.
Integration Outcome:
- Code reviews become more comprehensive and precise, with the ability to address both immediate concerns and deeper, long-term issues. This leads to higher-quality code and more reliable applications.
Combine Toad and Visual Expert for Oracle
About Visual Expert
Visual Expert boosts the code quality and security in PowerBuilder applications by offering code profiling, performance tuning, and advanced code inspection features. It identifies bottlenecks, detects quality and security issues, and streamlines development. Integrating VE with DevOps platforms and supporting various coding standards, ensures code quality throughout the development lifecycle.
