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

[al johson]

Well, obviously the only exposure I've had to Oracle was through one of the
"front-end GUI's in use".  I really know nothing about any database with the
exception of DBase. So if  I've offended Oracle or its users or creators in
any way, I sincerely apologize. No offense intended. I was just trying to
say I enjoyed the meeting, despite misgivings about the subject matter. I
learned a lot and thoroughly enjoyed it.--Al Johnson.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Portzer" <jeremyp at pobox.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 4:39 PM
Subject: [TriLUG] hassle of gui getting in the way (Re: Three questions
about Knoppix)


> 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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