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William Bode
William Bode
7,105 Points
Posted by William Bode
William Bode
7,105 Points

Workbench, huh, what is it good for?

Hi there, I just wonder, why did Andrew Chalkley choose to use the workbench instead of just using command line on the databases course? I think this just adds needless clutter, while in a command line interface you rather focus on the essential stuff. Do professional coders actually use such a GUI?

Anyway, I have no problem following along and in really LOVE Andrew's style of teaching; he really manages to make databases fun, which is an awesome feat.

1 Answer

Shawn Gregory
Shawn Gregory
Courses Plus Student 40,672 Points

William

While I can agree to you in most circumstances that it's better to use command line, there are a lot of people that can't their heads around command line. There are a good amount of people that prefers visuals when communicating with their database. It's easier to see what you are doing and makes it easier for most to communicate with their databases. Take computers nowadays as an example. At the start you had Operating Systems like Linux where everything you did was from the command line interpreter (CLI). Soon the advent of GUI started making people want more visual methods to work on their computer. Now Linux comes with a GUI that people can use. For most, they prefer to see everything in front of them instead of having to type a command and scrolling up. Workbench is one of many methods out there and since most prefer GUI, this is what is used.

Cheers!