>>>>...Note the absence of VI and VJ++ as core languages. http://www.microsoft.com/mcp/certstep/mcsd.htm
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>>>VI isn't a language, just a fancy NotePad.exe :-)
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>>I can't modify SQL Server tables by writing commands in notepad,
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>Uh..yes, you can. You can write a SQL Script, which is an ASCII file, then exectue it in SQL Server.
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>>so I wouldn't make that comparison. Yes you can also hand write html docs in VI but that would negate most of VI's features.

Yeah, try executing it from notepad.

I can do that visually in VI.