SQL Editor
Graphical Versus Character-Based Utilities
The SQL Editor application is a graphical program equivalent to the ISQL and dbaccess programs in the character-based world. For a while it seemed that Informix was intending to completely replace the character-based utilities with these new graphical utilities, but an outcry from the users convinced Informix to retain the character-based utilities. There are still many things that can be done from the character-based utilities that cannot (yet)-be done with the graphical utilities, and the character-based utilities still are the main method of database access and manipulation on UNIX systems, since the Microsoft Windows-based graphical utilities will not run on UNIX. To date, one of the main ...
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