Recommendation for a good, lightweight, free SQL IDE?

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Recommendation for a good, lightweight, free SQL IDE?

I'm looking for a free and lightweight SQL IDE that can support MS SQL and Oracle. I have tried Aqua Studio and Rapid SQl, and they both are not free, and a bit bloated.

Any recommendations?

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try toad

Ahmed Said 2009-06-29 20:29:15

he said a *good* IDE :)

skaffman 2009-06-29 20:33:37

Foxy SQL Free 1.0

DreamCoder for Oracle Freeware 4.1

Toad

joe 2009-06-29 20:32:02

EditPlus 3 is a great IDE. And it supports making language packs so there is a whole community behind it to support any new features.

Also, for SQL Server I always suggest to people to try the LINQ Pad. It is a lot of fun and gets you away from mundane SQL when you don't want to write it.

Andrew Siemer 2009-06-29 20:33:27

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I'm not sure what you are looking for when you say SQL IDE, but a very good frontend for various DBMSs is DBVisualizer. Unfortunately, the free version lacks important features so I would recommend to buy it. It costs 149 $ and is totally worth it!

Tim Büthe 2009-06-29 20:38:39

They may well be, but the question is for a free tool.

skaffman 2009-06-29 20:39:45

As I said, there is a _free_ and a so called personal version of DBVisualizer.

Tim Büthe 2009-06-29 21:44:06

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For Oracle, the Oracle SQL Developer is the best free tool I could find.

Karl Bartel 2009-06-29 20:44:38

Sadly, this seems to be true. It's just not very good.

skaffman 2009-06-29 21:01:32

+1, it works and supports both MSSQL and Oracle. It's okay.

sheepsimulator 2009-06-29 21:05:27

Netbeans has a pretty decent data base tool inside...

daniel 2009-06-29 20:52:58

+2 A:

For MSSQL:

SQL Server Management Studio Express

Very easy to use

Egg 2009-06-29 20:55:14

ansaurus

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