Re: New engines lack character based tools

Posted in 1997

Ian Goddard — Thu, 27 Feb 1997 23:11:19 -0800 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

John Morgan wrote: > > 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 > through some stupid menu driven interface! ACK! Both Oracle and Once upon a time (pre SQL but the language was similar) all you got was a command line interface. It was a complete pain. ISQL (of which dbaccess is a cut-down version) was a vast improvement. Ian