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DBeaver – open-source database client

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Post by saikatsg » Sun, Mar 10, 2024, 4:52 PM UTC

DBeaver – open-source database client
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Re: DBeaver – open-source database client

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Post by paulryanrogers » Sun, Mar 10, 2024, 7:48 PM UTC

It's a decent free and cross platform UI. Doesn't have all the DB specific features of a tool like PG admin or MySQL Workbench. Still, I like having the same tool for all my basic needs, and only use a more specialized one where I really need it.

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Post by teaearlgraycold » Sun, Mar 10, 2024, 7:50 PM UTC

Dbeaver is generally great. Sometimes I have weird issues where it just can’t load data after losing connection with Postgres. It’ll act like it’s reconnecting but will invariably fail. I need to manually disconnect and reconnect to get it to work.

But otherwise it does everything I need. I install it on all of my computers.

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Post by vbezhenar » Sun, Mar 10, 2024, 7:51 PM UTC

Also they made a browser database client (cloudbeaver) which is much better than pgdamin IMO. I set it for my company, so people can easily access database without creating tunnels, sharing passwords, etc. I tried pgadmin before, but it was incredibly buggy, almost unusable as a shared installation (often server would just hang until restart).

For desktop I, personally, prefer Idea Database plugin, because it's just SQL editor, but incredibly powerful one.

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Post by htrp » Sun, Mar 10, 2024, 7:51 PM UTC

+1

It's your general swiss army knife for DB tools

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Post by anonu » Sun, Mar 10, 2024, 7:56 PM UTC

I use this successfully with different versions of postgres, SQL server, MySQL, redshift and others. Does the job.

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Post by hackyhacky » Sun, Mar 10, 2024, 7:56 PM UTC

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Post by neals » Sun, Mar 10, 2024, 8:06 PM UTC

I use HeidiSQL for my SQL databases

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Post by cowmix » Sun, Mar 10, 2024, 8:07 PM UTC

DBeaver is amazing. As someone who needs to do adhoc querying / extracting / loading of data from any hosts of system on a daily basis - this tool has saved me over and over again.

My beef is there doesn't seem to be a way to contribute $$$ to the OS version -- except for buying/subscribing to the commercial version. Maybe I've missed some web page that explains how to do contribute -- so if anyone knows if there's a way to do that --- post it here.

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Post by shortrounddev2 » Sun, Mar 10, 2024, 8:18 PM UTC

I use dbeaver extensively at work. I like that you can graphically edit rows and it will start those changes as a transaction, so you can hit ctrl+s to commit the changes