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Toad as a plugin for Eclipse

I have been a user of TOAD for multiple years and in the past have used and tried have other database tools. Given the level of familiarity I have with TOAD, I always end up falling back to the use of the product.  Through my career, I have also found that it is the general consensus among developers who are developing for an Oracle backend. It wasn't until recently though that I discovered the TOAD plugin for Eclipse.  I was intrigued and decided to check it out.  One of the main reasons I decided to give it a whirl is, it's always tough to switch between multiple tools during head down development.  And since I have been managing development teams for multiple years, I have heard developer after developer make comments like 'it would be nice if that was built right into Eclipse' (or whatever the editor of choice). I was pretty impressed with how well the plugin worked and it really does have some slick features from a java developer perspective.  As indicated abo