![]() ![]() I was very productive in my job, and I regularly received high performance appraisals. The muscle-memory my fingers developed over those two years still helps me today. This made me very adept at using these tools. At the time, I wasn’t even really aware of GUIs in the database world. I didn’t have to worry about if they had my favorite GUI in place for me to do my job. When I needed to work on a remote customer site, all I ever needed was a network connection. When I started out with Oracle, my only tools were TELNET, SQL*Plus, FTP, and TkProf. I get the feeling when people tell me that they ONLY use the command-line, it’s because they feel like I am insulting their intelligence, skill-level, productivity by talking about a GUI product. Ok, with that out of the way, I want to explore a bit this notion that you are ‘smarter’ if you only use command-line tools. So don’t bash me because I’m bashing SQL*Plus because I’m not! I’m bashing the people that refuse to consider using anything OTHER than SQL*Plus □ I also love SQL*Plus, and I use it almost everyday. Let’s get this out of the way, because anyone who knows me, knows that I have a HUGE bias in this argument: I work for Quest Software, and my primary job is to help sell Toad for Oracle. This post pretty much pertains to any and all database IDE and GUIs. ![]()
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