Where Are The Wise Men?

My workplace has inflicted all of us with Oracle. Not only that but the company’s standard SQL IDE tool is horrid, IMHO. But I was using, wishing I had something better.

Today I saw an entry for SqlPlus mode on the Emacs Wiki RSS feed. I had some time this afternoon to install it. And I think I found the ultimate solution.

It’s command-line and that’s not a bad thing for me. You enter your query on the top part of the screen, his C-Return and the output appears on the bottom. There are shortcuts for some common SQL commands and good syntax coloring. Oh, and the output looked really nice in my NTemacs 22 install.

But I think a picture is worth a thousand words:

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