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How quickly does Toad offer new Oracle version support?

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How quickly does Toad offer new Oracle version support?

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Toad is one of the most aggressive tools when it comes to supporting new Oracle releases – both in our standard product features, and the optional DBA module. Generally speaking as a premier Oracle partner, we actively participate in all new Oracle version betas as soon as possible. Our goal is to support basic database connectivity and full backwards compatibility of existing Toad features ASAP – often at nearly the same time frame as the new Oracle release. We often refer to this as new Oracle version tolerance. So our goal is to be tolerant ASAP – and hopefully at the same time as the Oracle release (depending of course on our own release schedule). Next we strive to add new Oracle version feature support – again trying to shoot for nearly the same time. However, sometimes we cannot 100% know for sure how a new Oracle feature will actually work until the actual Oracle release date (i.e.