The name Toad gave me a flashback to Tool for Oracle Application Development, an IDE and debugger for SQL and pl/sql back in the 1990s.

taude 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

90s? I used that solidly into the mid-2000s! Worked across more than Oracle, if I remember correctly, was the DataGrip of it's time.

	▲	shagie 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I use Navicat in the early 2010s for the "cheaper Quest Toad" (a regular developer could afford a few of their tools) and before DataGrip.

It's still around!

	▲	shagie 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Very much still around... and one of those "this (the terminal tool the HN post is about) might have some trademark challenges" given that every license of TOAD (Tool for Oracle Development) is bundled with some AI and the likelihood of confusion and overlap is quite real. ... and Quest really likes putting that ® after every mention of it.