It doesn't seem like it to me. ISTM that they're implying that most sql tools have a gui component which isn't friendly to running remotely over an ssh session.

I've personally never seen a good experience of display forwarding over ssh.

Of course, most people and tools get around this by tunneling a connection to the database over ssh and running the GUI locally.

I believe their next sentence took away the need to try to infer anything, and in fact made their point quite clear:

> A grid with monospace characters is perfectly suitable for that.