I have been using TOAD for a number of years now. One of the features is to be able to run a script with TOAD, SQLPlus, or QSR. This way you can use the ability to popup a list of fields for a table or view and check your code before running it. Fred
________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe DeSouza Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:29 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle SQL Client Toad is pretty good too.. I haven't used either toad nor sqldeveloper that frequently as I'm pretty comfortable with sqlplus although it sucks to a certain extent.. I am not sure if you can enable spooling on toad or sqldeveloper but I need that feature so badly at times while developing sql scripts that I didnt care moving away from sqlplus and finding out if that were possible on toad/sqldeveloper Joe ----- Original Message ---- From: Jill E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:09:26 PM Subject: Re: Oracle SQL Client Greetings Christie, SQL Developer is my graphical tool of choice - http://sqldeveloper.oracle.com <http://sqldeveloper.oracle.com/> Jill Anderson On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Pargeter, Christie :CO IS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ** Hi all - I have recently moved from working with an MS SQL server to having Oracle as my db. Is there a good gui client that I can download (hopefully free) to see all the tables in the db and running basic sql commands? Thanks!! Yes, I am feeing a bit spoiled to lose Enterprise Manager. ARS 6.3 Oracle 9 ________________________________ Christie Pargeter Legacy Health System IS - Programming SR Technical Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Office tel: 503-415-5149 _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"