Re: New engines lack character based tools

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 13:16:11 GMT, mudshark@mindspring.com (John Morgan) wrote: [snip] >Being a recent convert to Informix I was stunned to find that there is >_NO_ command line SQL tool! All that is available is in dbaccess [snip] I would like to thank everyone for the responses. The dbaccess - - command _seems_ to work, but I haven't had time to verify that everything about it works the way I want. If not, It will only take me a couple of hours to write a command line tool the way I want it. Sorry if the command _was_ in the manuals someplace. I have been completely overrun with taking on the entire db project at the last minute since we fired out incompetent db contractors. I had 3 days to do what they failed to do in 2 months! Really sad... The really sad thing is that it only took me about an hour to do what _they_ were supposed to do, and the rest of the 3 days doing the stuff that merged it all into our libraries, none of which they had any clue about and we would have had to have done anyway! I wish _I_ had the money we paid those jokers! The thing I _don't_ like about the "echo <select foo> | dbaccess" type of command line statement is that I have no interactive transaction control. When diagnosing and fixing db problems, this is critical. -john