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There are alternatives to SQL*Plus (Score:1)

by wnodom (2030) on 2004.12.10 16:33 (#36697) Homepage Journal

Are you hearing me Oracle? You command line client is awful. It sucks very, very hard. Yes, you have all of these neat features that are very useful, but for grunts like me, I want a tool that makes the common tasks easy. Give me autocompletion. Give me a friggin' up arrow. Give me a break.

I agree so hard it hurts. That's why I use TOAD [toadsoft.com].

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- Re:There are alternatives to SQL*Plus (Score:2)
  
  by djberg96 (2603)
  
  And for those who can't afford TOAD, there's TORA [sf.net]. Though, be warned, Henrik (the author) has gone and joined Quest Software (the makers of TOAD), so TORA is unmaintained atm.
  - Re:There are alternatives to SQL*Plus (Score:2)
    
    by Ovid (2709)
    
    I tried TOra twice. The first time it wouldn't install. The second time it would launch and then throw a bunch of error messages. I was most disappointed by this.
    - Re:There are alternatives to SQL*Plus (Score:2)
      
      by djberg96 (2603)
      
      Use the 1.3.x branch. I think I had to tweak the config file for Solaris, though. I use it without problems on Solaris 9.

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