Eh, depends on the type of work you're doing and your command line skills. For maintenance work and administrative tasks, a GUI tool really shines, but during d

Eh, depends on the type of work you're doing and your command line skills. For maintenance work and administrative tasks, a GUI tool really shines, but during development the cli runs circles around every GUI tool available (for an experienced terminal user). edit: Also, GUI tools are very useful when you want to familiarize yourself with a large or complex database you haven't previously worked on.