What rock have I been living under? Aqua Data Studio rules!
ColdFusionI was chatting with Matt Woodward this morning about his upgrade to Ubuntu from Windows. In our discussion, I mentioned that the only real need I find for Windows is when dealing with MS SQL Server databases, at which time I either have to do an RDP connection to a remote machine or open up my Windows instance in VMWare . I use dbEdit for Eclipse, and it works pretty well for looking at data, but it definitely does not give enough control for what you need in active development. In agreement, Matt asked if I was familiar with Aqua Data Studio, which I wasn't. It is a platform independent database development tool that seems to offer much of the functionality that I need with SQL Server Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer. In fact, in my usage today I have yet to come up against anything that I couldn't do, other than things due to my own shortcomings of course! If you are interested, there are versions for Windows, Linux, OSX, and Solaris.
As I thanked Matt for directing me to such a great tool, he responded:
"cool--i thought EVERYBODY knew about aqua data studio ;-)"
Well, I guess everyone does now.
It is also great at working with other databases such as Oracle and MySQL. Any database you can connect to with JDBC can be used with Aqua Data Studio. It also works great with SQL Server 2005.
David Fekke.
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