Re: What is it like to work with Oracle?

"HansF" <News.Hans_at_telus.net> wrote in message news:pan.2006.02.22.20.02.42.581588_at_telus.net...
> Depends entirely on what yiou are trying to develop and what language you
> are trying to use to develop.
>
> Oracle Developer is the common name for a SUITE of products, that includes
>
> - Oracle Forms; (a forms builder - think PowerBuilder, VB but in PL/SQL)
> - Oracle Reports; (a report builder - think Crystal Reports)
> - Oracle JDeveloper; (a Java IDE - think Eclipse)
> - Warehouse Builder; (an ETL builder - think
> - Oracle Designer; (a CASE tool - think Erwin and other modelling tools)
> - Oracle Discoverer; (ad hoc query administrator - think Informatica)
> - Oracle SCM; (source code config mgt - think CVS, Safe Source)
>
> IN all cases, Oracle provides a decent and usable environment. Whether it
> is for you depends on your brain - as with any GUI environment, your
> comfort level depends on whether you CAN think in the same way the
> developer of the enviuronment thinks.
>
> Whether it is superior, or even functional, for an individual is often a
> matter of religion.
>
> I fully expect flames on this from all sorts of [explicative deleted]
> people who have reasons for not using a specific component of the suite -
> usually religious ravings that do not take into account that things
> change/improve over time.
>
> --
> Hans Forbrich
> Canada-wide Oracle training and consulting
> mailto: Fuzzy.GreyBeard_at_gmail.com
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>

You forgot to mention sql*plus :-p Received on Fri Feb 24 2006 - 20:32:59 CET