I started off learning Oracle many moons ago and laughed at this SQL Server thing when I attended a training course and found it didn't do this and that. But the one thing that stood out was tooling. For the Oracle world everything was command line, or something that I can't remember the name of that was java based, slow and generally awful. SQL Server had Query Analyser and awesome query tool, it was so lightweight. Enterprise manager an mmc plugin (ok this wasn't amazing but was good...(read more)

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