[Tora-develop] Supported TORA Features?

[Hampton D. <Dre...@ga...>]

To Technical Department,
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	I am looking at TORA as a possible, more cost-effective, alternative to =
TOAD for my organisation.  Potentially anywhere between 10 and 500 	=
licences.

	We work predominately with Oracle databases.

	As I have not had enough time to thoroughly compare you product to =
others we currently use, I would appreciate it if you could in five or =
six 	dot points, outline any special features, apart from price, that =
you feel your product has that your competition (eg TOAD) either does 	=
not 	have, or that yours does better eg. the Schema comparison facility =
, or loading BLOBS and CLOBS from the file system.

Also I would appreciate if you would address the following questions:

	1.	Is the ability to compare schemas across database instances a =
feature supported in TORA?

	2.	Does TORA allow for the loading of images in various formats (eg =
jpegs,gifs, tiffs).

	3.	Can BLOBS and CLOBS be uploaded to and downloaded from the database, =
into the filing system.

	4.	Is the Oracle ORDSYS.ORDIMAGE data type supported and if so, could =
image attributes imbedded in the binary file can be read 		from the =
image into metadata fields when loading?

	5.	Does TORA  handle Oracle Spatial column definitions and Spatial =
Queries?

	6.	Can TORA export query output in csv or other delimited file format?

	7.	Is there an easy mechanism for bulk data loading data similar to =
SQLLoader from delimited data files and if so can BLOBS and 		CLOBS also =
be bulk-loaded from a spreadsheet with a pointer (path) to stored images =
in a file system directory?

Thank You in anticipation for you response.

Drewe Hampton
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Drewe Hampton  (Database Developer)
Corporate Information Management and Access
Geoscience Australia
GPO Box 378
Canberra  ACT  2601
Ph:     61 (0)2 6249 9373
Fax:    61 (0)2 6249 9999
Email: Dre...@ga...
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