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I'm starting a new project soon and I'd like to try to use some better tools this time around. The last project, I wrote all my Database creation SQL by hand for MySQL. I'm hoping there are some good tools out there for creating, maintaining and modifying database schema in MySQL. My budget is out-of-my-own-pocket, so free (as in beer) would probably be best. :)
MySQL Workbench : http://dev.mysql.com/workbench/
It is free and very easy to use. I usually create schema diagrams and export it as a .sql file to use with phpMyAdmin
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html offers a list of GUI tools to use.
Mac options, try Querious or Sequel Pro - here's a comparison:
http://theappleblog.com/2009/02/27/mysql-showdown-querious-vs-sequel-pro/
A complete list of data modeling tools can be found at databaseanwers
MySQL Workbench 5.1 (Beta 1) should be out March 6,2009. It will be available on MacOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Windows. These are native C++ implementations on each platform. WB 5.1 is focused on Data Modeling (replacing Mike Zinner’s popular DBDesigner product).
MySQL Workbench 5.2 (Alpha 1) should be out mid April 2009 (around the MySQL Users Conference 2009). This will include a ground up rewrite of the MySQL Query Browser.
http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?151
I know this is an old thread but this is too good to miss out on. I've only just found out about this recently...
HeidiSQL
It supports connecting through SSH tunnels. It uses PuTTY (plink.exe) to do this but avoids having to manually fiddle with your PuTTY settings. It's even easier if you're using this nice portable version of PuTTY... http://jakub.kotrla.net/putty/
Plus it's open source. I strongly urge you to donate though as it's a great tool.
Another one that looks good is DBeaver
I used to really like MySQL Administrator but the new Workbench is way too bloated. I just want a quick way to browse the schema without having to SHOW TABLE STATUS
Use DB Schema editor but it is not freeware. But you can trial it for 15 days for free by downloading here
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Hi I am interested in learning SQL databases something I should have done a long time ago but I kept avoiding it for some reason.I realized that there are diferent versions of SQL(MySQL , SQL-Server etc.)and now I am prety confused on witch one to learn.I would like to start learning SQL from w3school but to be honest I dont really know what to use for writing SELECT , DELETE statements and more importantly how to run it.I know that in order to create databases you need tables and I used Microsoft Acces for that but after creating the tables I don't know what to do next.I should mention that there are 2 reasons why I wana learn SQL:
1.For using it with PHP web development
2.I have a course at coledge in witch we study C# and I need to be able to learn how to create SQL databases so I can connect to them
Can you tell me what are the diferences beetween MySQL and SQL-Server?
What should I use for creating and manipulating databases?
And what resources or book could you recomend for learning SQL ?
Thanx in advance and sorry if my statements are vague I have never had anything to do with databases before
Both MySQL and Micorosoft SQL Server are so called Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS). Data is structured in tables of rows and columns, and relations are made between the tables. MySQL is an open source solution, while SQL Server is not. There is however a free edition of Sql Server available called "Sql Server Express". You manage it through the software "Management Console", which I think is included in the download. http://www.microsoft.com/express
Both uses the SQL-language to interact with the stored data, they do have some differences though. SQL Server uses a variant called "T-SQL" while MySQL uses "SQL/PSM". The basics are however the same.
Good luck!
First, check out RDBMS in Wikipedia for a comparison of DBs. Things change regularly, but this can give you a good idea.
Second, you can use PHP w/ MSSQL.
Third, you can use C# with MySQL, but in Visual Studio, it is very easy to use MSSQL and much more feature support.
As a student you can download all of the MS products you need from Dreamspark plus you can get a free subscription to PluralSight which is online video tutorials from beginner to advanced use of MS products.
PHP is fun and I've had more success using MySQL with PHP, but if you will have a class learning C# and MSSQL, you might as well start learning there.
since you use PHP, the best way you start is Mysql.
Check http://www.apachefriends.org/pt_br/xampp.html
With XAMPP you can run your php apps and user PHP mysqladmin to learn more bout SQL syntax.
Good Luck
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Hi what are the preferred mysql tools with professional developers. I am a recent computing graduate and have used the query browser and administrator from mysql throughout university and i have found them to be very useful.
I start a new job in a couple of weeks though as a web developer and was wondering whether they would be exepcting me to use the command line or some other mysql tools.
What do the professional developers generally use for interacting with mysql databses i.e. creating new schemas, tables etc.
This is the tool to generate MySQL queries. There you can find MySQL generator for different commands, like drop table, create table, rename database, create database etc.
mysqladmin should be sufficient for most of the tasks if not all of them.
For windows, HeidiSQL is fantastic. It might work on Linux through Wine, but I've never tried it.
I occasionally use MySQL Workbench, as it can help speed up schema design (and the price is right). A cursory knowledge of phpMyAdmin is useful as it is often the admin tool of choice on web hosting servers. Most of the time, however, I just use the command line interface from Linux.
Understanding what goes on beneath the GUI is a very useful (dare I say essential) skill to have. Just look here on SO, where you'll find a vast number of SQL scripts that would be difficult to explain or implement if a GUI had to be factored in.
The CLI is available almost everywhere. If you ever have to work on a computer other than your own, be it on site or in your office, you can be fairly certain that CLI access will be available. The same cannot be said for your GUI of choice.
SQLyog is what I turned to after trying to use HeidiSQL. I liked HeidiSQL but I loved SQLyog. There is a free version somewhere.
Probably
Navicat
phpMyAdmin
DB Forge Studio for MySQL
For the Mac for development I use Querious. The application is very well written and supports connecting to local and remote databases.
Both of the tools you point out are good, and they would probably expect you to have some familiarity with them. Usually I will use a tool such as Query Browser or pgAdmin (for PostGreSQL) to run simple queries.
Once you have more experience you might find the command-line tools helpful as well. It's only going to help you by learning them.
For most big companies, you usually use Microsoft Visio to develop and plot the database as well as the web layout.
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I work with several different databases and find myself trying connecting to these quite often to test a query. I use the database specific tools to connect to the DB and run the query.
I find these DB specific tools like SQL Query Analyzer (SQL-Server), Oracle Enterprise Manager, MySQL Query Browser to be quite clunky and slow when it comes to running quick queries and looking at data directly. It is also hard to remember all the userids and pwds for the develop and test databases.
What tools do you use as developers to connect to the database of choice? I use Eclipse as an IDE. So any Eclipse specific tips are also appreciated.
Even if a tool were to work with one DB and not with the other, I am willing to look into it if it were more user-friendly than the one the DB vendor provides. I am already using 3 different ones.
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.
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.
Also a nice tool is the AquaDataStudio
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.
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.
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.
Database Workbench can be use for Oracle - SQL Server and MySQL
http://www.upscene.com
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
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.
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
Check out RazorSQL. It has all the features of the most expensive tools at a fraction of the price.
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The university I work at uses Oracle for the database system. We currently have programs we run at night to download what we need into some local Access tables for our testing needs. Access is getting to small for this now and we need something bigger. Also, the nightly jobs require constant maintance to keep working (because of network issues, table changes, bad code :) ) and I would like to eliminate them to free us up for more important things.
I am most familiar with MySQL so I setup a test MySQL server. What is the best way to automate copying the needed tables from Oracle to MySQL?
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I don't think there is really anything that is going to do this. If you could setup a local Oracle database, then most likely you could as oracle has various means of keeping two databases "in sync", provided they are both Oracle.
If you must use mysql, then likely you are going to just have to write something to sync the data, this is of course always going to run in the same problems you currently have with the access "database".
You could setup something with HSODBC and triggers, but
I've found HSODBC to be very memory hungry
This is only going to add more load to your DB, which you say is already heavily loaded during the day.
If the main thing you are doing is wanting a local Test copy of your oracle database, you would be best to setup syncing with a local version of oracle, as far as I can tell from the licenses, oracle is free for development copies ( I have seen some posts to the contrary, but if you find that is the case, you could always use something like Oracle XE)
Could you just copy the Oracle tables and then set them up as linked tables in MS Access? This way the front-end stays the same plus you keep everything in Oracle (less moving parts than exporting and importing).
As Kellyn said, there are lots of free tools. One of them is SQLWorkbench http://www.sql-workbench.net/, which works with any JDBC database, so MySQL and Oracle should work.
It can create tables in Oracle if needed, or just only copy over the (updated) data.
There are many tool available to migrate data from oracle to mysql if your database is not very complicated.
You can use open source tools like Kettle pentaho ETL tool or paid enterprise tools like DB convert: https://dbconvert.com/oracle/mysql/
Lastly you can write a script or program that migrates the data.
Please find links related to your question:
https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/150343/how-to-sync-a-mysql-db-with-a-oracle-db
Migrate from Oracle to MySQL
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I'm tired of opening Dia and creating a database diagram at the beginning of every project. Is there a tool out there that will let me select specific tables and then create a database diagram for me based on a MySQL database? Preferably it would allow me to edit the diagram afterward since none of the foreign keys are set...
Here is what I am picturing diagram-wise (please excuse the horrible data design, I didn't design it. Let's focus on the diagram concept and not on the actual data it represents for this example ;) ):
see full size diagram
Try MySQL Workbench, formerly DBDesigner 4:
http://dev.mysql.com/workbench/
This has a "Reverse Engineer Database" mode:
Database -> Reverse Engineer
I've recently started using https://github.com/schemaspy/schemaspy . It strikes me as having a good balance between usability and simplicity. (GraphViz now optional)
On a Mac, SQLEditor will do what you want.
This http://code.google.com/p/database-diagram/ will reverse engineer your database. Just do an export 'structure only' then paste the SQL into the tool.
Try MySQL Maestro.
Works great for me.
I believe DB Designer does something like that. And I think they even have a free version.
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Never mind. Michael's link is much better.
MySQL Workbench worked like a charm.
I just backed up database structure to SQL script and used it in "Create EER Model From SQL Script" of MWB 5.2.37 for Windows.
In MySql Workbench (6.0) its possible generate one diagram based on tables created.
For that you should access to the tools bar, press Model and forward Create Diagram from Catalog Objects and done!
Visual Paradigm for UML 9.0
It's awesome I used to work with mysql bench but for big databases (something like more than 300 tables) won't work very well but visual paradigm reverse database works so much better
phpMyAdmin has what you are looking for (for many years now):
It takes a small bit of configuration, but gives you additional benefits too:
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/#pmadb
Try out Vertabelo!
It's an online database modeler that supports reverse enginnering.
Just create free of charge Vertabelo account, import an existing database into Vertabelo and voila - your database is in Vertabelo!
It supports following databases:
PostgreSQL,
MySQL,
Oracle,
IBM DB2,
HSQLDB,
MS SQL Server.
Try SchemaBank. They support reverse engineering too.
The "Reverse Engineer Database" mode in Workbench is only part of the paid version, not the free one.
Here is a tool that generates relational diagrams from MySQL (on Windows at the moment).
I have used it on a database with 400 tables.
If the diagram is too big for a single diagram, it gets broken down into smaller ones. So you will probably end up with multiple diagrams and you can navigate between them by right clicking. It is all explained in the link below. The tool is free (as in free beer), the author uses it himself on consulting assignments, and lets other people use it.
http://www.scmlite.com/Quick%20overview