Developer tools to directly access databases [closed]

Answer 1

Aqua Data Studio and RapidSQL are two great tools/IDEs for sql development. You can connect almost any database engine and they include some vendor specific features for say Oracle etc..

Also since you use Eclipse IDE, you may consider Eclipse Data Tools Platform or QuantumDB plugin.

Answer 2

I've used quite a few.

• PL/SQL Developer: as the name implies this is Oracle specific but is by far my favourite DB tool. It greatly simplifies import/export;
• Toad: Also Oracle-specific. I used to be a big fan of this but it's expensive and I think more DBA-oriented these days. For a developer I don't think it offers all that much (given the price difference) over PL/SQL Developer;
• DBVisualizer: this tool isn't bad. I'm not sure the commercial version is worth the price they're asking for it. The free version is OK. It's good that it works with pretty much any database;
• Navicat for MySQL: it's OK but honestly I wouldn't pay for it;
• SQL Server management Studio: comes with SQL Server. I don't think I really need much more for SQL Server than this except perhaps a better way of importing/exporting databases, soemthing for which this is garbage;
• Oracle SQL Developer: this is the poor man's tool you use on Linux when you don't have much other choice. It's fairly basic but OK given that it's free.

Answer 3

The tools depends a bit of the kind of work to do. For most browsing I go for DbVisualizer, I can customize it exactly to my needs. The support is good and responsive. For pl/sql editing I prefer oracle sqldeveloper. DbVisualizer is not a free tool but the price is fair, maybe even cheap when compared to Toad. It is also multi database but this is implemented in such a way that I am not limited in my oracle world and it helps me navigating on other vendor rdbms that I don't know so well. For real time monitoring DbVisualizer has a very nice option that I have not seen in any other application. VERY usable if you are trying to debug some, for example, performance problems.

Ronald

Answer 4

Also a nice tool is the AquaDataStudio

Answer 5

Within Eclipse you can use the Eclipse Data Tools Platform for doing database development. In recent versions you can find some kind of visual query builder as well. Oracle has a plugin for DTP and implements some Oracle-specific functions.