TOra - Toolkit for Oracle
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Copyright (C) 2000-2001,2001  Underscore AB (http://www.underscore.se)

For information about license see the LICENSE file. It is distributed under GPL
which basically means that any derivatory work must be released under an open
source license as well.

TOra is supported for running with an Oracle 8.1.7 client installation. It also
probably works with any 8.x and 9.x client installation, but this is unsupported.
It can access any Oracle version from 7.x and upwards. The only supported server
versions are 7.3.x and 8.1.x though. Oracle 8.0.x and 9.x is NOT supported
although they probably work.

Toolkit for Oracle is a program for Oracle developers and administrators. The
features that are available so far is (As of version 1.2):

* Handles multiple connections
* Asynchronus database communication. UI mostly responsive when accessing database.
* Requires no installation on the database side to be fully functional.

* Advanced SQL worksheet.
	* Code completion.
	* Explain execution plan.
	* Execution statistics.
	* SQL syntax highlighting.
	* Quick menu for often used custom SQL.
	* Parse error location indication.
	* Chart visualization of result.
	* PL/SQL block parsing.
* Schema browser.
	* Table & view editing.
	* References & dependencies.
	* Tab & tree based browsing.
	* Object & data filtering.
* PL/SQL editor & debugger.
	* Breakpoints.
	* Variable watches.
	* Line by line stepping.
	* Debugger SQL output viewing.
	* Syntax structure tree parsing.
* Server tuning.
	* Server overview.
	* Tuning charts.
	* I/O by tablespace & file.
	* Performance indicators.
	* Raw server statistics.
	* Parameter editor (P-file editor).
* Security manager.
* Storage manager with object & extent viewer.

* Session manager.
* Rollback manager with snapshot too old detection.
* SGA & long operations trace.
* Current session information.

* Statistics manager with parallel analysis.
* DBMS alert tool.
* Invalid object browser.
* SQL output viewer.
* Database & schema comparison and server.
* Extract schema objects to SQL scripts.

* Easily extendible.
	* Ability to add support for new or older Oracle versions without programming.
	* Well documented plugin API (Only Linux version).
* SQL template help with PL/SQL functions and optimizer hints.
* Full UNICODE support.
* Printing of any list, text or chart.
* Cross platform support. Known to work on Linux, Windows and Solaris.

For installation instructions se the file INSTALL.

TOra is developed by Henrik Johnson of Underscore AB (http://www.underscore.se)
and has the homepage http://www.globecom.se/tora. If you encounter problems you
can find both mailinglists and bugtracking tools from this page.

Oracle is copyright of Oracle Corporation.
