Re: sqlplus like utility for informix?

Nils.Myklebust@CCMAIL.telemax.no wrote: : I don't know sqlplus and how that works. : I do know that dbaccess must be one of the most primitive utilities arround. : You can't even scroll backward, much less horisontally. : Have you tried MS Access. At this level it's query builder is a fine tool : that works excelently with Informix databases for many purposes. There are : of course several things you should be careful about, such as large datasets, : fancy updates and so on. For query and analysis of releatively small datasets : (to perhaps 100.000 rows) it works nicely for us. (We don't currently do : updates at all via MS Access.) ha ha ha.... he he he.... Laughs, laughs,... Are you trying to mislead this person or just tyring to prove that MS-Acess is a better product... I don't know the utilisation of a "tool" like "sqlplus" has to Albert, but you sure have brought out "features" about the product.. No. I have not worked on MS-Access and never will. But, as far as the original posting, I don't think dbaccess is cumbersome product... Probably you are trying to put to much into the menu-driven capabilities of it... Try using on the command line and it works the same way sqlplus does... In fact you don't havce to invoke it in the similar fashion as sqlplus... : Why Informix hasn't come out with a tool like this I don't know (not the full : MS Access package, but a query builder with update functionallity to replace : dbaccess). I haven't tried Viewpoint Pro lately. May be that is a reasonable what was that ;-) Query builder qith update functionality... I beleive you are not fully aware of the Informix product line, else this will definitley not asked... Cheers Mahesh