Cool Tools for the

Florida DBA
(and Oracle developers too!)

Troy Ligon
 Cool Tools

• On-line Data Dictionary Viewer

• OraSnap
• Toad
• HTMLdb
• Oracle Enterprise Manager
• DB Console
 Data Dictionary
Viewer
• Interactive viewer for DBA_% definitions
• Pull from the tool or directly from a database
• Latest version will also pull V$ views from a database
• Freeware
• http://www.quest-pipelines.com/pipelines/dba/DataDictionary/data.htm
 OraSnap

• Oracle Performance Snapshot Tool

• Freeware produced by Stewart McGlaughlin
• Completely driven by 90+ SQL scripts
• Output formatted in HTML
• Menu Driven Web Browser Interface
• Click to drill-down into more detail
• http://www.oracle-books.com/orasnap/
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• Development and Administration tool

• Add-on modules for DBA, Xpert advice, Modeling, etc.
• Now available for Oracle, MySql, and MS SqlServer
• Freeware and Commercial versions available from Quest
• http://www.toadsoft.com/downld.html
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• Tools -> Master-Detail Browser

• Tools -> HTML Schema Doc Generator
• Tools -> Single Object Comparison
• DBA -> Health Check
• DBA -> Tablespaces
• DBA -> Repair Chained Rows
• DBA -> Compare Schemas
• DBA -> Generate Schema Script
 HTMLdb

• Oracle Tool for rapid development of Web Apps

• Free with your RDBMS license
• Runs on top of Oracle HTTP Server
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/data
base/htmldb/index.html
• Basically a set of stored procedures
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• Wizards for various style apps, including

calendar, tree, chart, and report types.
• Quickly move spreadsheet to database
• OTN has a bunch of “demo” apps
available for download.
• Think of this as “Portal Lite”
 Ora9i OEM Console

• Runs either stand-alone or with a repository

• Free with your RDBMS license
• Installed via Oracle Universal Installer
• Available on Client-CD install
 Ora10g DB Console

• Oracle’s replacement for OEM

• Oracle says “Get used to it”…
• Free with your RDBMS license
• Installed via Oracle Universal Installer
• Lots of interesting tools,
but sloooowwww.
 Cool Links

• http://www.quest-pipelines.com/pipelines/dba/index.asp
• http://www.quest-pipelines.com/pipelines/dba/DataDictionary/data.htm
• http://www.oracle-books.com/orasnap/
• http://www.toadsoft.com/downld.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/htmldb/index.html
• http://www.oraperf.com/ (analyze utlestat/statspack output)
• http://tahiti.oracle.com/ (Oracle’s Doc server)
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpOraAdmin/
• http://asktom.oracle.com

•Troy Ligon