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! XML Spy. This is a great combination of text editor and GUI. In situations where I want the raw XML abstracted away from me, the GUI is great. But I can always switch back to text-editing mode for tasks such as text replacement. Tool I hate! Oracle SQL*Plus. I only dabble in database development and I fi nd that my simple tasks are more quickly accomplished with SQL Server's GUI. I hate the rigmarole of opening up the text buffer for editing long SQL statements. It's a task I have to relearn every time I touch an Oracle system.