Jason Dodson wrote:

> While I am not one to spit at the idea of a good GUI tool (The world
> needs a whole lot more), most experienced DB admins are quite
> comfortable at the command line, and tend to make scripts for tedious
> and redundant tasks.

I administer about 15 FB servers on Linux remotely via ssh and isql. Combined
with some home-grown scripts it really is sufficient for administration. So,
DBAs are satisfied. But, for application developers it is a PITA to use isql.
Let's be honest, who likes scrolling up/down after SHOW PROCEDURES is called
on database with 100+ procedures? You need GUI to get better overview of
objects, find info you need faster.

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Milan Babuskov
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