Cris Carampa <cris119_at_operamail.com> wrote in message news:<c0vnoo$pms$1_at_panco.nettuno.it>...
> My boss wants me to evalutate tools for enhancing productivity in PL/SQL
> development, like TOAD or Embarcadero SQL Debugger, but I'm currently
> happy with my "franciscan" enviroment (vi+sqlplus) :) Am I such a
> dinosaur? Which tools are you PL/SQL developers using?
I strongly vote for some kind of PL/SQL developing tool. I can't agree
with Connor or Daniel that debuggers are waste of money and SQL*Plus
is the best. Almost every language has its debugger and IDE, why
PL/SQL should be an exception? Number of companies are developing in
PL/SQL huge projects with tons of lines. How can you handle this with
SQL*Plus?
Maybe I'm a bad developer (which is true because I'm not a developer
at all), but when I'm programming some package with 10+ procedures I
need to be able to jump between them in a single click and if
something goes wrong I definitely need a debugger. Maybe others can
write a flawless code and find bugs on the spot, but I'm not that
good.
As as a tool I would also recommend already mentioned PL/SQL
Developer, because it costs nothing and contributes a lot. There are
some bugs (especially in accessing other user's objects), but
value/cost ratio is unbelievebly high. I've never seen such tool for
just few bucks. On the opposite side I'm strongly dissuading from
purchasing of SQL Programmer, which is useless, buggy, slow and costs
just too much for its value. The only good part of SQL Programmer from
my point of view is its SQL scriptor, which is *VERY* dangerous, but
very powerfull.
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Dusan Bolek
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Received on Fri Feb 20 2004 - 08:39:56 CST
