A Tool is Better than a Script
From Voice of the DBA by Steve Jones
April 30, 2026 · 4 min · Season 12 · Episode 45
About this episode
The episode discusses the preference for tools over scripts in technology workflows based on a customer's experience.
While working with a customer recently, I heard this sentence: a tool is better than a script. The reference was that this customer preferred a known, tested, approved tool for most of their staff rather than a script built, lightly tested, and perhaps changeable by anyone in their organization. I was surprised, because in many ways, I've depended way more on scripts, more often, than "tools" in my career. Often I struggled to find tools that actually worked in the way I wanted them to and built them myself with Unix shell utilities, VB Script, PowerShell, or some combination of those or other technologies. Read the rest of A Tool is Better than a Script
People in this episode
Host: Steve Jones
Topics covered
- tools
- scripts
- customer preferences
- technology
- Unix
- PowerShell
Keywords
- tools
- scripts
- Unix
- PowerShell
- VB Script
- customer
- technology
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