What is it like to work with Oracle?

Hi all,
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I am thinking about becoming an Oracle developer. I have experience with
Centura Team Developer AKA SQLWindows, this is a front-end developer
environment for a variety of of database servers: Oracle, MS SqlServer,
Informix etc.
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What is it like to work with the Oracle developer environment?

Is it nice or rather ok or so-so, or do you love it? For instance, does it
have a nice debugger, is it intuitive, logical, effective, productive etc?
Can anyone share his/her experience?
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Thanks in advance
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Corrado

Depends entirely on what yiou are trying to develop and what language you
are trying to use to develop.
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Oracle Developer is the common name for a SUITE of products, that includes
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- Oracle Forms; (a forms builder - think PowerBuilder, VB but in PL/SQL)
- Oracle Reports; (a report builder - think Crystal Reports)
- Oracle JDeveloper; (a Java IDE - think Eclipse)
- Warehouse Builder; (an ETL builder - think
- Oracle Designer; (a CASE tool - think Erwin and other modelling tools)
- Oracle Discoverer; (ad hoc query administrator - think Informatica)
- Oracle SCM; (source code config mgt - think CVS, Safe Source)
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IN all cases, Oracle provides a decent and usable environment. Whether it
is for you depends on your brain - as with any GUI environment, your
comfort level depends on whether you CAN think in the same way the
developer of the enviuronment thinks.
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Whether it is superior, or even functional, for an individual is often a
matter of religion.
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I fully expect flames on this from all sorts of [explicative deleted]
people who have reasons for not using a specific component of the suite -
usually religious ravings that do not take into account that things
change/improve over time.
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Hans Forbrich
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You forgot to mention sql*plus :-p