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• Best Database Client For Mac

When this question was asked there were very few tools out there were worth much. I also ended up using Fusion and a Windows client. I have tried just about everything for MAC and Linux and never found anything worthwhile. That included dbvisualizer, squirrel (particularly bad, even though the windows haters in my office swear by it), the oracle SQL developer and a bunch of others. Nothing compared to DBArtizan on Windows as far as I was concerned and I was prepared to use it with Fusion or VirtualBox. I don't use the MS product because it is only limited to MS SQL. Bottom line is nothing free is worthwhile, nor were most commercial non windows products However, now (March 2010) I believe there are two serious contenders and worthwhile versions for the MAC and Linux which have a low cost associated with them.

MySQL Database Client is a streamlined, compact, and powerful MySQL database manager that provides you with all the necessary tools for easily managing, configuring, and administrating MySQL databases. GUI Client Apps. There are many clients for PostgreSQL on the Mac. You can find many of them in the Community Guide to PostgreSQL GUI Tools in the PostgreSQL wiki. Some of them are quite powerful; some are still a bit rough.

The first one is Aqua Data Studio which costs about $450 per user, which is a barely acceptable, but cheap compared to DBArtizan and others with similar functionality (but MS only). The other is RazorSQL which only costs $69 per user. Aqua data studio is good, but a resource hog and basically pretty sluggish and has non essential features such as the ER diagram tool, which is pretty bad at that. The Razor is lightning fast and is only a 16meg download and has everything an SQL developer needs including a TSQL editor. So the big winner is RazorSQL and for $69, well worth it and feature ridden.

Believe me, after several years of waiting to find a cheap non windows substitute for DBartizan, I have finally found one and I have been very picky. My employer produces a simple, proof-of-concept which can be used against any ODBC data source on the web-browser host machine, through the we also produce. These components are free, for Mac, Windows, and more. Applicable to many of the other answers here -- the Type 1 JDBC-to-ODBC Bridge that most are referring to is the one Sun built in to and bundled with the JVM. JVM/JRE/JDK documentation has always advised against using this built-in except in experimental scenarios, or when no other option exists, because this component was built as a proof-of-concept, and was never intended for production use. My employer makes an enterprise-grade JDBC-to-ODBC Bridge, available as either a or a enabling JDBC client applications in any JVM to use ODBC data sources on Mac, Windows, Linux, etc.). This solution isn't free.

Best Database Client For Mac

All of the above can be used with the ODBC Drivers for (or ) we also produce.

> benefit of OSS being that you have access > to the source to fix/add things The place where this is the most beneficial is when considering businesses looking to invest in a technology. If you invest in a company/software product that goes under, then you could be saddled with a piece of tech that you can't fix bugs for, etc. If it's open source you at least have the chance to do so, even if the community around it collapses and there is no new development. The idea that access to the source is some sort of cure-all is a fallacy, but it may also just be a straw man. I don't know that anyone says that all open source projects are going to be manageable just because the source is available, but they are by definition more manageable than a project with no source available. So, I was rescuing an MS Access application that imperfectly synched from a MySQL instance powering the Rails app from which it got data, that had been exported to MS SQL that was running (surprisingly well) inside a Windows XP VM I was accessing via Remote Desktop Connection. So: I have no idea.