Perhaps , one reason why religions exist , is that it gives those who
believe in it a sense of belonging , of being part of something , of not being alone..
Thats exactly what sql clients do in our office. There are people who believe that their favourite sql client is the ultimate one.may be it does give some sort of collective reprieve from the pointlessness of the work.atleast , it gives something to quarrel about.
of course , if we were all having *nix machines at office ,
we'd all be fighting over editors , but here sql clients seems to have attracted peoples minds more.(for some reason , most people here seemed to be hooked on a kludgy ,ugly ,shareware editor called edit plus . more on that on a future post).
There are supporters of toad , raptor , plsql developer , ......
But , I use Squirrel .
It is open source and has a kind of tough appearance , and has nice
little touches like quoting queries and generating java code to put that
query into a stringbuffer so that it can be cut and pasted in a breeze.
and it works with any database ...
only thing missing is that it wont chirp , unlike Toad which croaks on launch
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