> That’s an irrational concern. Is it though? So for SQL Server, you can't really see the live query plan (real-time plan + statistics while the query is runn

> That’s an irrational concern. Is it though? So for SQL Server, you can't really see the live query plan (real-time plan + statistics while the query is running) without the GUI. You cannot see the Activity Monitor without the GUI. There are elements that cannot be accessed via pure SQL. 3rd party GUIs generally don't support these features.