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Toad for DB2 Tips & Tricks

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Learn how Toad for DB2 can simplify SQL development. See how to create & optimize SQL statements, view & analyze results sets, create professional reports and more.

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Toad™ for IBM® DB2®

Tips & Tricks - Become more productive with Toad

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Want to get the most from Toad? This presentation will get you on your way to some of Toad’s most useful features. Learn how to setup and customize Toad, create and Optimize SQL statements, view and analyze result sets and more.

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Part 1. General setup configuration and startup

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• Toad for DB2 enables you to control the look and feel of Toad as well as default Toad behaviors

• Choosing your preferred layout and configuration settings.

– The first Configuration Wizard will start up the first time you run Toad. It will walk you through choosing your preferred layout and configuration settings.

Toad for DB2 Setup & configuration

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Toad for DB2 Configuration & Setup

You can invoke the Configuration Wizard from within Toad at any time.

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You can choose how connections should be displayed when you startup Toad.

Startup Connections

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• You can select which features should open automatically when a database connection is opened.

• You can change your connections settings later, just use the Tools │ Options Menu item

Starting up Toad for DB2 – Configuration Wizard

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Toad for DB2 Startup Choosing what actions are performed at Toad startup

The highlighted section in the below figure controls what actions are performed at Toad startup

After clicking the Options menu item, you can change what actions are performed at startup

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Toad Startup

If you need to ensure that Toad will not attempt to access the internet (for example to check for product updates), check the checkbox highlighted below

Controlling whether Toad can access the internet

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Toad Startup Cataloging your databases Toad installs and uses its own DB2 client environment. The databases you will be accessing in Toad need to be cataloged within that Toad DB2 environment. When you first attempt to create a DB2 connection and Toad realizes that you do not have any databases cataloged, a dialog will open to help you import the database catalog from other DB2 environments you may have installed on your system.

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Toad Startup Cataloging your databases

You can always catalog your databases using the DB2 Configuration Wizard shown below

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Toad Startup Specifying options for each database connection

When you define a database connection, you can specify that it should connect automatically when Toad starts up

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Toad Startup Specifying options for each database connection

You can choose which features open automatically when a new DB2 connection is established

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Part 2. The Database Explorer

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The Database Explorer

The Database Explorer allows you to easily navigate through your database objects and view important information about those objects.

It contains features that make it very powerful and it is highly customizable

In this next section you’ll learn how to:

1. Create filters

2. Use the right-click menus to see many extra actions available

3. Use the dependencies tree to see Object relationships

4. Quickly generate SQL

5. View Object details

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To learn all about the Toad Database Browser and the rest of Toad’s productivity features download the entire eBook at https://software.dell.com/whitepaper/toad-for-ibm-db2-tips-and-tricks825036/# Oh and by the way, you can also watch the on-demand webcast at https://software.dell.com/webcast-ondemand/productivity-tips-tricks-for-the-latest-version-of-toad-for-ibm-db2823128/ and get on your way to easier workdays with Toad!

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