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Greg Utas wrote:
arcane command line stuff


It is interesting to me that during my IT career -- started in 1991 -- that we:

1. used command line bec we were forced too, no real other choice
2. moved quickly toward GUI stuff -- as everyone thought it would make _everything_ easier / better
3. moved gradually back to command line more and more as we learned that it is far easier to reproduce consistently.

I think you've been in the IT game for quite some time too so you probably have the same experience. Smile | :)

Here's my big story about this:

Back around 2000 I was doing C# development (still am) and I had to develop a piece which would save data to Oracle database. I worked up the forms and the data schema.
I had to submit the data schema (3 or 4 tables) to the DB ADMIN.
He approved it and I sent him the DDL that he could run and create the tables. -- you know that is basically a command-line script Big Grin | :-D

He sent and email and let me know my tables were created.

I started working on my code and testing form to insert data in tables.
Got a strange crash and discovered that two different field's data types were incorrect. They were varchar and should've been int.
What?!
I checked my script and they were correct.
I walked over to DB ADMIN and inquired.

I said, "I'm not sure how those fields could've been changed since they are set in the DDL."
DB ADMIN said, "Oh, I don't run those scripts I just looked at them when I ran Toad (Oracle GUI tool[^] for DB work) and created the tables & fields by hand."
I sh** myself and walked out to clean up. Laugh | :laugh:
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