On 2017-06-15 2:03 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 06/15/2017 12:15 PM, Darren Duncan wrote:
>> On 2017-06-15 11:59 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> Do developers use GUIs for databases these days? I thought they did
>>> everything through ORMs. See, that's the kind of thing one needs to ask
>>> them.
>>
>> That's apples and oranges. ORMs are for making custom applications to
>> talk with a DBMS. A GUI is for a human to talk directly to a DBMS, such
>> as for debugging what their application actually changed or saw, or
>> doing administration etc. Having a good GUI is important. -- Darren Duncan
>
> Why do people always thing apples and oranges can't be compared?
> They're both fruit, they're both round, they both have vitamin C.
The reason I said "apples and oranges" is because your comment made it look like
you were saying ORMs and GUIs were interchangeable, like if one doesn't have a
GUI then an ORM can be used instead, whereas a more reasonable comparison is
that a command shell like psql is an alternative to a GUI, because both are for
direct user interaction with the database without having to write code first. --
Darren Duncan
