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HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager

103 points by peter_d_sherman

by giancarlostoro

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What's really special about Heidi and idk if this is still true, but sometime after the creator of MySQL forked MySQL into MariaDB, on Windows, the installer used to include HeidiSQL since they no longer owned the MySQL Workbench, and honestly, as far as open source clients go, Heidi was always my preferred one every single time. It's got its quirks but its so good once you figure it out.

by tacomagick

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I got a taste of Navicat (Paid Software) and I wish I hadn't because being able to control everything in one place with a good SSH support and wide support for all including SQlite and Redis in a unified interface, being able to transfer between servers and take dumps at the comfort of a single software feels like a blessing.

by zeroc8

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Just gave the Qt6 version a try on Kubuntu. It's incredible how performant it feels compared to DBeaver and pgAdmin.
The UI is kind of ugly in a few places and having the select right below the empty table command seems a little risky. But man, the speed just rocks.
20 years ago I worked on some Delphi projects, but then suddenly everything had to run in the browser. Now I'm a Spring Boot guy, but I really would like to write some decent cross platform desktop software again.
And the Pascal source code looks so clean.

by articsputnik

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I use neovim for querying my databases with DBUI and tpope dadbod :) https://www.ssp.sh/brain/query-databases-in-vim-vim-dadbod/
But HeidiSQL and DBeaver are great, and open source (DBeaver even has a vim integration too;)

by 51Cards

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Heidi has been my go-to SQL tool for longer than I can remember. Has been great to watch it evolve and have communicated wish list items to the developer several times with great responsiveness.

by smackeyacky

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One thing that tripped me up with Heidi was the default collation for tables is Swedish. Makes sense for them I guess. I stopped using it when I ditched windows. The older versions did crash a bit for me but they probably sorted that out. Dbeaver is good enough.

by tclancy

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It’s been a long time since I used it but it’s one of those pieces of open source that was so vital to my career when contracting I treated it like I had an annual subscription to pay each year.

by dominicrose

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Does it do anything DBeaver doesn't do?

by flossly

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Written in Pascal. That's been a while since I've seen Pascal in the wild!

by bearjaws

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Went to their website and it literally has malvertising that tries to install an extension in your browser right at the top.
Nothing really makes me comfortable connecting to my production database quite like malware at the top of a site.

by owlstuffing

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Delphi?! Interbase?! Is this a Borland reunion?

by yamapikarya

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heidisql is interesting, but right now i am using beekeeper. it's great and just works

by overflowy

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How does it compare to DataGrip?

by fallen_comrade

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My daily driver at work

by mohragk

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I used this to move away from MySQL Workbench, which is absolute trash. HeidiSQL is excellent, even though is fugly. Doesn't matter though, works like a charm.

by orionblastar

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Looks good, but I can't afford Delphi. I might try their Community Free Edition, though.

by peter_d_sherman

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Related: https://www.heidisql.com/

by faangguyindia

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people don't realize how good llm is at SQL. I use to use lots of these tools now i just llm on cli.