>>I confess, I graduated to the GUI tools OK but I'm afraid I still can't

get

>>the hang of these new fangled query builders! - Give me notepad any day

for

>>writing my SQL
>>Alan

OK, query builders are a waste of time, but there's more to these tools than
that.

Notepad doesn't have:

- code-completion,
- syntax highlighting,
- syntax checks before running, to give you better error messages
- dependency lists when editing stored procedures
- indication of index usage
- perfomance analysis
and more!

If I had to work with Notepad in place of IBExpert, I would... I don't
know... I don't want to even think what it would be like!

Maya