{"id":7211,"date":"2020-03-19T07:53:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/?p=7211"},"modified":"2021-05-06T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T18:59:05","slug":"toad-ide-productivity-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designandexecute.com\/designs\/toad-ide-productivity-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Toad IDE &#8211; Productivity Tricks and Shortcuts for Oracle Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"adbayes-content\">Shortcut to Advanced Code formatting or beautify code in TOAD<\/h1>\n<p>CTRL+SHIFT+F<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"adbayes-content\">Shortcut to Comment\/Uncomment Selected Text in\u00a0TOAD<\/h1>\n<p>Shift+B<br \/>CTRL+SHIFT+B<\/p>\n<p>or \u00a0It\u2019s listed under the Edit menu<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"adbayes-content\">Shortcut to Describe Selected Tables in TOAD<\/h1>\n<p><strong>F4<\/strong><br \/>This executes a \u201cdescribe\u201d on the object your cursor is adjacent to (i.e. a table). This is different from the \u201cdesc [tablename]\u201d command, since it pops up a TOAD window that is well-designed with an easy UI for navigating the object \u2014 the \u201cdesc\u201d command in SQL will work similar to using SQL Plus where it will just show details in the result grid pane.<\/p>\n<h1>Shortcut to execute an explain plan on the current statement.<\/h1>\n<p><strong>CTRL-E<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>How to prevent TOAD from displaying large numbers in exponential notation<\/h1>\n<ol class=\"X5LH0c\">\n<li class=\"TrT0Xe\"><b>View -&gt; Toad<\/b>\u00a0Options -&gt; Data Grids -&gt; Data -&gt; Untick &#8220;Display large numbers in\u00a0<b>Scientific notation<\/b>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li class=\"TrT0Xe\">Restart\u00a0<b>Toad or rerun query<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h1>How to get total record count for a results set in TOAD<\/h1>\n<p>right click on the grid of results and select &#8220;<strong>record count<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<h1>Run only the SQL that your cursor is on<\/h1>\n<p><strong>SHIFT-F9<\/strong><br \/>This will run only the SQL that your cursor is on. You do not need to highlight the line or the entire SQL statement; simply place your cursor anywhere inside the SQL statement and click SHIFT-F9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CTRL-F9<\/strong><br \/>This will verify (parse) the statement without executing it.<\/p>\n<h1>Editing Shortcuts<\/h1>\n<p><strong>CTR + Z<\/strong> Undo<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHIFT + CTR + Z<\/strong> reapply the last Undo (Redo Last Undo)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ctrl+Spacebar<\/strong> -Code Templates (zen coding)<br \/><strong>Ctrl+P<\/strong> &#8211; Strip Code Statement<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ctrl+U<\/strong> &#8211; Converts Text to Uppercase<br \/><strong>Ctrl+L<\/strong> &#8211; Convert Text to Lowercase<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ctrl+A<\/strong> &#8211; Select All Text<br \/><strong>Ctrl+C<\/strong> &#8211; Copy<br \/><strong>Ctrl+X<\/strong> &#8211; Cut<br \/><strong>Ctrl+V<\/strong> &#8211; Paste<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ctrl+F &#8211;<\/strong> Find<br \/><strong>Ctrl+R &#8211;<\/strong> Find and Replace<br \/><strong>F3<\/strong> &#8211; Find Next Occurrence<br \/><strong>Shift+F3<\/strong> &#8211; Find Previous Occurrence<br \/><strong>Ctrl+G<\/strong> &#8211; Goto Line<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ctrl+S<\/strong> &#8211; Save File<br \/><strong>Shift+Ctrl+S<\/strong> &#8211; Save File As<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ctrl+E<\/strong> &#8211; Execute Explain Plan on the Current Statement<br \/><strong>F5<\/strong> &#8211; Execute SQL as a script<br \/><strong>F8<\/strong> &#8211; Recall Previous SQL Statement<br \/><strong>F9<\/strong> &#8211; Execute Statement<br \/><strong>Ctrl+F9<\/strong> &#8211; Set Code Execution Parameters<br \/><strong>Shift+F9<\/strong> &#8211; Execute Current SQL statement at Cursor<br \/><strong>Ctrl+N<\/strong> &#8211; Recall Named SQL Statement<br \/><strong>Alt+Up Arrow<\/strong> &#8211; Display Previous Statement<br \/><strong>Alt+Down Arrow<\/strong> &#8211; Display Next Statement (After Alt+Up Arrow)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ctrl+Home<\/strong> &#8211; In the data grid: goes to the top of the record set<br \/><strong>Ctrl+End<\/strong> &#8211; In the data grid: goes to the end of the record set<br \/><strong>Ctrl+Tab<\/strong> &#8211; Cycles through the Collection of MDI Child Windows<\/p>\n<p><strong>F4<\/strong> &#8211; Describe Table, View, Procedure, Function<br \/><strong>Ctrl+T<\/strong> &#8211; Columns Drop-down<br \/><strong>Shift+Ctrl+R<\/strong> &#8211; Alias Replacement<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortcut to Advanced Code formatting or beautify code in TOAD CTRL+SHIFT+F Shortcut to Comment\/Uncomment Selected Text in\u00a0TOAD Shift+BCTRL+SHIFT+B or \u00a0It\u2019s listed under the Edit menu Shortcut to Describe Selected Tables in TOAD F4This executes a \u201cdescribe\u201d on the object your cursor is adjacent to (i.e. a table). 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