Developer tools to directly access databases [closed]

Answer 1

Database Workbench can be use for Oracle - SQL Server and MySQL

http://www.upscene.com

Answer 2

Check out RazorSQL. It has all the features of the most expensive tools at a fraction of the price.

Answer 3

When it comes to stuff like this, I prefer portable tools. Installed once, you can put them on flash or CD and carry with you. Connecting to DB should be easy as filling out usual fields: server, user, pwd..

Sql Buddy Decent one, open source, with syntax highlighting & code completition. Not recently updated but it generally works OK.

GiPo@DB Utilities Very nice one, has all of the above features plus its more feature filled as it was previously commercial.

Mentioned tools are not more then few MBs in size and it takes 1 minute to install them and copy them to your portable location.

Answer 4

SQuirreL, written in java, will work with any RDBMS for which there's a JDBC driver.

It works very well for both sending SQL, rendering result sets, and allowing browsing of database objects (from a tree). For several RDBMS, it includes extensions to automatically generate common statements.

Especially nice is that the query pane executes either the selected sql, or the line the cursor is on up to the first blank line. This allows you to write several statements, and to execute them either individually or in a batch.

And it's free and open source.

Answer 5

have a look at Rapid SQL

it is a cross-platform SQL IDE that helps database and application developers produce high quality SQL code faster.Embarcadero Rapid SQL helps you increase database development efficiency by:

Streamlining SQL coding tasks, object management, reverse-engineering, source code control and schema deployment

Improving team collaboration and resource sharing

Accelerating application development cycles with code assist, Quick Fixes, SQL to Java round-trip debugging, and profiling tools

Standardizing with one tool set with deep cross-DBMS platform support

Answer 6

I've used:

TOAD

DBVisualizer

I prefer DBVisualizer, but it's a bit of a memory hog so it might not be the right solution if your resources are an issue.

I've tried the eclipse plugins as well. For me I'd rather keep eclipse optimized to do the work it's meant to do.