Comments on: Top Five Best Database Management Tools

By: moroos

moroos — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:32:44 +0000

Squirrel SQL is a piece of shit. It’s unstable, hangs at least every hour. I cannot count how much time I lost by this %$#%^. Advantage is I got a habit of saving my work in any application every 3 minutes.

By: John E

John E — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:56:30 +0000

If you use Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, then you HAVE GOT TO GET SQL PROMPT PRO!!!
http://www.red-gate.com/Products/SQL_Prompt/index.htm

I spend about 1/2 my day in it and it saves a LOT of time. Code completion in transact sql is amazing. as is having a tool that reads into your table structure. GET IT. I can’t live with out it. And no I don’t work for them. But I would like to!

By: Pablo Matamoros

Pablo Matamoros — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:44:51 +0000

I agree with JJ and other comments.

If we center in MySQL, MySQL GUI tools are the best option for desktop use. phpMyAdmin is a good tool but limited, no doubt the best tool if you need webaccess.

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:53:47 +0000

As Colm mentioned, Toad’s absence from this list is more than conspicuous.

The article’s title should have more appropriately been named “MySQL DB Admin Tools” and you should have left MSSMS out of it. It’s clear that MySQL tools are the only ones 98% of the commenters (and apparently the author) has any experience with.

The blurb on the MS offering isn’t even accurate. MSSMS is not freeware at all and comes as part of the MS SQL Server (although there is an Express version that is free, but it doesn’t include all of the features of the full version).

The exclusion of any Oracle tools highlights the fact that this article was written from the perspective of a PHP-centric web developer and not a DBA. There’s nothing at all wrong with that, but I wouldn’t have chosen to represent it as the tools DBA’s choose… That world extends far beyond the borders of the MySQL world.

By: Long Nguyen

Long Nguyen — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:39:06 +0000

Usually, I use MySQL Workbench and MySQL GUI tools.
Sometime, I use phpMyAdmin and SQL Buddy.

By: Hazem Farra

Hazem Farra — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:42:38 +0000

I use a free tool, Database.NET – http://fishcodelib.com/Database.htm, to manage my databases (MS SQL, MySQL, Access, SQLite, etc).
It is super easy to use in running CRUD queries.

Check it out at http://fishcodelib.com/Database.htm (the also have some other useful FREE utilities!

By: idcj

idcj — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:34:24 +0000

I’d like to suggest LyteRAD http://www.lytecube.com/lyterad though not a pure database management tool, but a super quick way to build complete table schemas, reports and even apps.

By: Sean Hood

Sean Hood — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:36:12 +0000

I have to recommend SQL Buddy too so much nicer and easier to use than phpMyAdmin.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:00:11 +0000

phpMyAdmin has to be the most frequent management tool to be used now days. It can be find anywhere and is very basic.

By: Dave Rowe

Dave Rowe — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:32:36 +0000

I have to give props to the MySQL GUI tools. Specifically, Workbench for modeling. Hands-down, my favorite tool for modeling. It’s clean, quick, and the forward/reverse engineering tools are _extremely_ helpful. The GUI tools themselves from MySQL would benefit to be packaged into a single app, rather than split out (Workbench could stand alone, in my opinion). But, combining the query browser and admin tool, seems like an easy win for Sun/MySQL