On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The #1 tool you have at your disposal is the human brain. I > personally think GUI database tools are counter productive and huge > time wasters. SQL requires lateral thinking but once you have your > head around how joins work and the general syntax of queries you > should have no problem getting data out of your database. SQL is a > 'man machine interface' :-). It's a very high level language with a > lot of power. The gui 'wrappers' that I've seen actually obfuscate > the concepts. Amen to that. I'd rather spend a little bit of my time each week going over correlated subqueries with a user than trying to get good performance on a reporting server that's hammered by bad queries. Which is what a lot of query builders basically do. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
