Re: Are Oracle GUIs causing a decline in DBA salaries?

Galen Boyer <galenboyer_at_hotpop.com> wrote in message news:<u3cjwek61.fsf_at_hotpop.com>...
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, kfarrell_at_belgariad.com wrote:
>
> > Using the command line doesn't make a DBA _more_ skilled than one who
> > doesn't.
>
> No, it doesn't. I think the thing people notice with the command line
> is that they can query everything Oracle will expose to them. With a
> gui, they are relegated to that which the GUI provides.
>
> But, the more important distinction is that there are outside tools that
> allow one to be extremely productive with a command-line that can never
> be duplicated in a GUI, like, scripting. Once you start doing your work
> by utilizing multiple tools to do it, instead of the one-stop shopping
> of GUI you sort of never go back...

What really drives me nuts about GUI's is there is no reason they should be mutually exclusive with command lines and scripts - even OEM has "SHOW SQL" tabs. The fact that they appear to be is bad GUI design. I seem to recall some of the products do simply run scripts, which can be observed and changed. But I guess ever since .inp files went away... :-)

>
> I try them both and what I find is that I'll use a GUI for a bit and
> find what I like that I didn't have before and then run over to sqlplus
> and write the script that gives me the same answer.

LOL! Done that too. Still like some of the pretty pictures though.

jg

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