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Review on Beekeeper Studio by Justin Spence

Revainrating 2 out of 5

A great open source SQL editor.

A nice open source tool that's pretty easy to install and use. Has all the features you'd expect from a modern SQL editor. One thing though - if you try to use it with MySQL you'll notice that the "Run" button disappears from the menu bar (in fact, the entire menu bar disappears). This may be a bug or a deliberate design decision, but it's annoying nonetheless. If you have any ideas for improving the experience, please let us know! Very good integration with Subversion/SVNKit; works very nicely with Tortoise SVN. Can import data into mysql db using this as an option, but has problems with some types of text files, which makes importing from other sources difficult. Not sure how much effort would go into fixing those issues, but they do exist right now.

Pros
  • Can import data into mysql db using this as an option, but has problems with some types of text files, which makes importing from other sources difficult.
  • Can import data into mysql db using this as an option, but has problems with some types of text files, which makes importing from other sources difficult.
  • Can import data into mysql db using this as an option, but has problems with some types of text files, which makes importing from other sources difficult.
Cons
  • Hard to export data to Excel (if that's what you want)
  • directory
  • Does not seem to handle columns with varying column names well (e.g., the name of one of the columns varies depending on the input file, but the name of the column does not change, so if you have columns named col1, col2, etc., then when you rename one of them, the old column name becomes hidden).