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Thanks for these opinions all.

I can see the arguments both for and against wizards and gui query tools.

On the one hand I personally agree with the jcdreads and viggity. These sorts of interfaces are very difficult to get right and dilute the SQL focus.

On the other hand a number of people have suggested going this way, so people do think it would be useful.

I have no immediate plans to go this way but I intend to be responsive to what customers request.

Cheers



Read up on Joel Spolsky's days at Microsoft trying to build a GUI code-builder for VBScript. Ultimate fail. Too complicated for basic users, too simple for power users.




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