My company recently bought my new license to TOAD 10, and with that cost - I wanted to learn how to use this tool as best I can to increase my productivity using TOAD 10. The book arrived today - and I have been going back and forth between the software and the book - and I am learning things about what it can do - that do not stand out until you have them pointed out. So for me this is a worthwhile purchase.



This is the 2nd Edition of the book (version 9.7 of TOAD), and it went to press in Sept 2009 as version 10 was coming out. So far I am not dissapointed and I expect to be more productive as a result. (TOAD is said to be the most widely used Oracle IDE there is on the windows platform).



The book does try to speak to a large audience, from Novice to Advanced. So there may be parts that may seem elementary- I understand the need to have it in the book(it will have a large audience of users). The version of TOAD that I am using is the Developer edition, so some of the discussions that are for the DBA edition are interesting, however they are not available to use.



The book is clearly written, with some attempts at humour that seem like a joke from a presentation style (It keeps it from being too dry a style).



If you have not really explored TOAD and its abilities before, this will be a useful book and worth the purchase price. I think even the long time users might still get an A-ha moment.