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• 51Cards
  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.
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  tacomagick
  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.
• giancarlostoro
  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.
• articsputnik
  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;)
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  dominicrose
  Does it do anything DBeaver doesn't do?
• tclancy
  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.
• flossly
  Written in Pascal. That's been a while since I've seen Pascal in the wild!
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  bearjaws
  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.
• owlstuffing
  Delphi?! Interbase?! Is this a Borland reunion?
• yamapikarya
  heidisql is interesting, but right now i am using beekeeper. it's great and just works
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  overflowy
  How does it compare to DataGrip?
• fallen_comrade
  My daily driver at work
• mohragk
  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.
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  peter_d_sherman
  Related: https://www.heidisql.com/
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  orionblastar
  Looks good, but I can't afford Delphi. I might try their Community Free Edition, though.
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  faangguyindia
  people don't realize how good llm is at SQL. I use to use lots of these tools now i just llm on cli.