Well, this seems like as good of a <slashdot>first post!</slashdot> as any…
Bill Stilwell just reminded me about how cool henplus is. I discovered it a couple of months ago and almost never use the native mysql client anymore (and I never used sqlplus without a gun to my head). Getting the java-readline support built was a little tricky under OS X, but once done, it provides an absolutely brilliant environment for interacting with JDBC-connected data sources. More on java-readline later…