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Re: Has anyone used the QuestSqlPlus Toad tool from Toadsoft?

From: Dough Smith <defense_dba_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 31 Aug 2002 08:33:27 -0700
Message-ID: <1e9296fb.0208310733.73512339@posting.google.com>


"jim" <jmmcda_at_mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<KJsb9.55870$Xa.2894057_at_twister.southeast.rr.com>...
> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message
> news:3d6e2e4c$0$12039$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...
> > "jim" <jmmcda_at_mindspring.com> wrote in message
> > news:mvnb9.55410$Xa.2869469_at_twister.southeast.rr.com...
>
> > Sadly I suspect that those who just wish to 'get by' without knowing what
> > they are doing are the majority. Does this mean that TOAD is bad - of
> course
> > not - just that it is easier to misuse than the Vi/SqlPlus combination.
>
> That part is undoubtedly true. I once had a request to prompt TWICE before
> dropping a table. Someone had dropped a table and every drop function in
> TOAD prompts first with the default button being NO. So this person clicked
> on yes and his DBA wanted a second verification. But how far do you go to
> protect people from themselves? This same developer could just as easily
> typed DROP TABLE XXX in Sql*Plus and produced the same disastor.

Yet Sql*Plus wouldn't have given you any prompts whatsoever. Based on that, I would think *ALL* DBAs would be pushing their developers towards gui tools to buffer them from their selves. Received on Sat Aug 31 2002 - 10:33:27 CDT

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