SQL vs. Enterprise Manager

Please forgive me if I insult anyone with this question. I have just begun my endeavor with Oracle 9i and I have gotten a couple books that show both SQL and Enterprise manager as methods for working with the database. It seems to me on this version (9i) most of the basic tasks can be preformed in Enterprise Manager. I can create users/tables/views/objects etc...even edit data. Is there any reason for using SQL to perform these types of tasks? If anyone can answer that Enterprise Manager is better, please point me in the direction of a good book?
Thanks.
Brian (new user)

The best reason to use sql would have to be to better and more fully understand what is hapening when you do these tasks.
Originally, the gui tools like OEM were only available on Windows, so the philosophy was to learn everything at the "prompt" so you could work in any environment. More and more now though, they're in Java and can run on just about any platform.
Personally, I have never been a fan of using the gui tools such as OEM simply because I want to to know the syntax and I want stub my toes once in a while to learn and really understand whats going on in the database when I issue commands. For instance, I'm not happy having Oracle Expert tell me to increase the size of my shared pool, I want to run utlbstat and see the numbers.
You may also find that use of the gui is fine but may not expose you to all of the options available when you do things.
I guess it depends on how deep you want to get in learning the stuff.
Hope that helps.

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