Re: Need a GNU SQL CLI tool for Win32 with ODBC support.

Actually not semantics. I need to script the program and there is no way
to script a GUI app.

I have started using PHP. Not a great solution, extreme overkill, but it
does work well.

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:29 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> Oh no, you were perfectly clear. I wrote my post because I don't know
> of any CLI tools for windows that do this either, so it would seem that
> a decent CLI tool wrapped in a GUI would still be acceptable. I mean,
> it's a question of symatics at that point. So, that's why I suggested
> some of the GUI tools that have a type your query here window.
> Sometimes you just gotta use what you can get. Some of them have
> history and all that fancy stuff, they just live inside a GUI app.
>
> Me personally, I switched of Windows long ago due to issues like this.
>
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 10:34, Roy Souther wrote:
> > CLI = Command Line Interface
> > GUI = Graphical User Interface
> > WSI = Web Server Interface
> >
> > I need a CLI app. Sorry I was not clear on this.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 10:05 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 17:00, Roy Souther wrote:
> > > > I love Linux, any tool you need it has it. Just try to find the most
> > > > basic of tools for Windows, what a joke.
> > > >
> > > > I need an Open Source SQL command line tool for Windows that will let
> > > > me script queries to a database over an ODBC connection. It must use
> > > > ODBC because it may or may not be PostgreSQL. Some times it will but
> > > > the rest of the time I have no idea what is on the other end.
> > > >
> > > > Most crap I am finding is shareware and everything is GUI. Some stuff
> > > > is Open Source but requires Java, not good but still not CLI.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone seen such a tool?
> > >
> > > Not for ODBC. Have you looked at any of the GUIs to see if they have a
> > > "type a query here" window in them?
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