Linux/Oracle Tools (Score 2)

Alan Burlison wrote a tool called explain. It's written in perl, and uses DBI, DBD::Oracle, and Tcl. It comes with DBD::Oracle, so once you have that installed, do perldoc ora_explain. Check out DB_Browser (http://www.summersault.com/software/db_browser/) by Chris Hardie, dbMan (http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sorm/dbman/screenshots.htm l) by Milan Sorm, Java Database Explorer (http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/1620/jexplore r.html) by Bernard Van Haecke and DBUI (http://tegan.deltanet.com/~phlip/DBUIdoc.html) as well. If you're looking for other tools that work on Linux to manage Oracle databases, Karma (http://www.panix.com/~shull/karma) by Sean Hull, Orac (http://www.kkitts.com/orac-dba) by Andy Duncan, oracletool (http://www.vonnieda.com/oracletool) Adam vonNieda, AlertView (http://www.zephrus.com/html/products.html) by Zephrus Software, as well as the other various tools mentioned on this ask slashdot forum.