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John Pocknell

John Pocknell is a senior market strategist at Quest Software and part of the Information Management business unit. Based at the European headquarters in the U.K., John is responsible for synthesising analyst data and customer interviews in order to create and evangelise solutions-based stories and messaging which relate to major IT initiatives for our extensive portfolio of database products, worldwide. He has been with Quest Software since 2000, working in the database design, development and deployment product areas and spent over 10 years as product manager for the Toad product line. John has been successfully evangelising Toad and other database solutions at various conferences and user groups around the world for the last 19 years as well as writing blogs and technical papers both internally and for the media. John has worked in IT for more than 30 years, most of that time in Oracle application design and development. He is a qualified aeronautical engineer with more than 10 years of experience in provisioning IT consultancy services and implementing quality assurance systems to ISO 9001. Find me on:

John Pocknell

Toad Data Point

On December 6, Quest® announced the general availability of Toad® Data Point 5.6 ... Keep reading >
Posted on Dec 13, 2021 8:00:00 AM by John Pocknell
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Toad DevOps Toolkit wins again! Best Continuous Delivery Product in the DevOps Excellence Awards. Get a free trial.

Toad DevOps Toolkit

Quest® Toad® DevOps Toolkit has won the Computing DevOps Excellence Awards for the ... Keep reading >

Toad for Oracle

Best in five solution categories and finalist in three, Quest® Information ... Keep reading >

Toad for Oracle

Big hair, pop music and high-energy dance moves might be what most people remember ... Keep reading >
Posted on May 25, 2021 11:20:23 AM by John Pocknell
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Toad for Oracle

If you've been "Livin' On A Prayer" that your code won't slow your database, give a ... Keep reading >
Posted on May 19, 2021 2:18:01 PM by John Pocknell
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Toad for Oracle

Part 3. With the rise of cyber security threats, application security is certainly ... Keep reading >

Toad for Oracle

Part 2. With the rise of cybersecurity threats, application security is certainly ... Keep reading >
Posted on Jan 20, 2021 2:00:00 AM by John Pocknell
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Toad for Oracle

With the rise of cybersecurity threats, application security is certainly getting ... Keep reading >
Posted on Jan 12, 2021 2:15:00 AM by John Pocknell
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NoSQL

With 2020 just around the corner, I wanted to share a couple of thoughts on what ... Keep reading >
Posted on Nov 27, 2019 7:07:00 AM by John Pocknell
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Toad for Oracle

There are many advantages of migrating databases to a cloud services provider such ... Keep reading >