[TriLUG] hassle of gui getting in the way (Re: Three questions about Knoppix)

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Tue, 13 May 2003, al johson wrote:

>    On another subject, I didn't think I was going to enjoy the last Trilug
> program, simply because since I deal with Dbase all the time (once you
> become relatively proficient in something that will run on DOS--you just
> don't want the hassel of a GUI getting in the way), 

Not sure where you got the idea that Oracle was a GUI tool.  While there 
are certainly various front-end GUI components available, as well as 
many many ways of interfacing Oracle databases with your GUI applications, 
these things hardly "get in the way" of running an Oracle system.  There 
are thousands of text-only, SQL-based Oracle commands that an experienced 
Oracle DBA learns -- it's definitely a text/terminal-based environment, 
like DOS!

--Jeremy

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