On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 19:16 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > 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. > > Good lord people. Not be helpful much? > [...] > JD... Who sits in bewilderment I'm fairly bewildered as well. I mean, why would someone who is emailing with an address from a company that presumably should care about how it looks on the mailing list bother to prefix his answer to a question with what amounts to an attack on other people in the thread. It'd be a bit odd, but understandable if the message was an attack only on the answers, but is just baffling when it effectively includes attacks on the people. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
