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DbForge Studio 2020 for MySQL是一款功能强大的数据库管理软件，内置好用的sql创建工具，帮助用户快速创建sql数据库，通过对象窗格可以显示开启表、查询等功能，在窗口顶部的工具栏提供其他控制项，你可以用它来操作你的数据。软件允许用户方便的调用数据库和它们的对象，支持数据传输方法，可. The 7.2 version of dbForge Studio for MySQL, Express Edition is provided as a free download on our website. Dbforgemysql.exe is the most common filename for this program's installer. The following versions: 3.1 and 3.0 are the most frequently downloaded ones by the program users. '.sql' is the extension this free PC software can open.

Updated January 28, 2016 / Posted July 29, 2015

By Rob Gravelle

Top 10 MySQL GUI Tools
Many third parties create rich applications to facilitate database management, database development and database administration. Here are ten outstanding graphical interfaces for MySQL.
Workbench
Manufacturer: Sun Systems/Oracle
Website: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/
Price: FREE
License: GPL License
Supported platforms: Microsoft Windows,Mac OS X and Linux
MySQL Workbench is avisual database design tool that integrates SQL development, administration, databasedesign, creation and maintenance into a single development environment. It isthe successor to DBDesigner 4 from fabFORCE.net and replaces the MySQL GUITools Bundle. The current version is 6.3, the earliest version being 5.0, which emphasized the fact thatMySQL Workbench was developed as the successor to DBDesigner4.
Navicat for MySQL
Manufacturer: Navicat
Website: http://www.navicat.com/en/products/navicat_mysql/mysql_overview.html
Pricing: As follows:
* Enterprise version (Windows) ispackaged with Report Builder and Data Modeling Tool, and 2 Navicat ReportViewer licenses.
# Enterprise version (Mac and Linux) includes the Data Modeling Tool feature.
A 14 day trial version isavailable.
License: Available under Commercial orNon-commercial licenses.
Supported platforms: Microsoft Windows,Mac OS X, Linux, and iOS
Navicat for MySQL is both a databaseadministration and development tool. It works with any MySQL database serverfrom version 3.21 or above, and supports most of the latest MySQL featuresincluding triggers, stored procedures, functions, events, views, and usermanagement.
Features in Navicat are sophisticated enough to cater to professionaldevelopers’ specific needs, yet easy to learn for users who are new to MySQL.
Sequel Pro
Manufacturer: The Sequel Pro Project (opensource)
Website: http://www.sequelpro.com/
Price: FREE (donations accepted via PayPal)
License: GNU GPL 2.0
Supported platforms: Mac OS X 10.6 SnowLeopard or newer
Sequel Pro is a FREE open-source application. It is thesuccessor of the CocoaMySQL Mac databasemanagement application. CocoaMySQL was the brainchild of Lorenz Textor, whowas the main developer of CocoaMySQL from its early beginnings in 2003.
Sequel Pro is an application used to manage MySQL databases(locally or over the Internet). It lets you add and remove databases andtables, change fields and indexes, view and filter table content, add, edit andremove rows, perform custom queries, and dump tables or entire databases.
It is compatible with MySQL 3.x, 4 or 5 and nowcomes in 5 additional languages, including Russian, German, Swedish, French andJapanese.
HeidiSQL
Manufacturer: Ansgar Becker
Website: http://www.heidisql.com/
Price: FREE (donations accepted via PayPal)
License: GNU General Public License
Supported platforms: Windows XP, Vista,7, 8, 10 (can be run on any Linux with Wine)
HeidiSQL, previouslyknown as MySQL-Front, is a FREE and open sourceclient developed by German programmer Ansgar Becker and a few othercontributors in Delphi. To manage databases with HeidiSQL, users mustlogin to a local or remote MySQL server with acceptable credentials, creating asession. Within this session users may manage MySQL Databases within theconnected MySQL server, disconnecting from the server when done. Its featureset is sufficient for most common and advanced database, table and data recordoperations but remains in active development to move towards the fullfunctionality expected in a MySQL Frontend.
A version written in Java, jHeidi, which isdesigned to work on Mac and Linux computers, also exists. Unfortunately, theproject has been discontinued since March 2010.
phpMyAdmin
Manufacturer: The phpMyAdmin Project (onSourceforge)
Website: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/
Price: FREE (donations accepted via PayPal)
License: GNU GeneralPublic License, version 2
Supported platforms: Microsoft Windows,Mac OS X and Linux, PHP 4 - 5 and MySQL 3 - 5
phpMyAdmin is a FREE software tool written in PHPintended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Internet. phpMyAdminsupports a wide range of operations with MySQL, the most frequently used beingthe managing of databases, tables, fields, relations, indexes, users,permissions. You still have the ability to execute SQL statements directly aswell.
Tobias Ratschiller, then an IT consultant andlater founder of the software company Maguma, started to work on a PHP-basedweb front-end to MySQL in 1998, inspired by Peter Kuppelwieser'sMySQL-Webadmin. He gave up the project (and phpAdsNew, of which he was also theoriginal author) in 2000 because of lack of time. By that time, phpMyAdmin hadalready become one of the most popular PHP applications and MySQLadministration tools, with a large community of users and contributors. Inorder to coordinate the growing number of patches, a group of three developers,Olivier Müller, Marc Delisle and Loïc Chapeaux, registered the phpMyAdminproject at SourceForge.net and took over the development in 2001.
SQLyog
Manufacturer: Webyog Inc.
Website: https://www.webyog.com/product/sqlyog
License: A full range of licensing options are available ranging from one to unlimited user commercial licenses with one year of free upgrades.
Supported platforms: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 10
There have been many complaints that MySQL Workbench hangsor fails to respond when put under a heavy load. SQLyog is a more robustproduct with many additional tools. It’s available in three major versions:Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate. The main difference between the threeversions is the number of included features. These include data migration,profiling, visual designers, analysis, batch scripting, backup scheduler, user manager,and database copy tools.
At this time, SQLyog is only available for the Windows platform, but, some of the community uses it on MacOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Mageia using WINE.
A single user license costs $99 for the Professional Ed, $199 for the Enterprise Ed, and $299 for the Ultimate Ed. Multi-user packages are also available. A 14-day trial version of SQLyog is available for download from the Webyog's website.
Updated: April 28, 2017
SQLWave
Manufacturer: Nerocode
Website: http://www.sqlwave.com/
Price: $99.00 USD
License: shareware. See http://www.sqlwave.com/Content/Other/license.txtfor more details.
Supported platforms: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
Nerocode SQLWave is a MySQL GUIClient tool designed to automate and simplify the database development process.It also provides an easier way to explore and maintain existing databases,design compound SQL statements, query and manipulate data in different ways. MySQL4.x - 6.x compliant.
A 30 day trial version isavailable.
dbForge Studio
Manufacturer: devart
Website: http://www.devart.com/dbforge/mysql/studio/
Price: FREE for express edition, $59.95(non-commercial standard edition), $124.95 (non-commercial professional edition),$119.95 (commercial standard edition), $249.95(commercial professional edition)
License: Commercial and non-commerciallicenses available. Subscriptions are also offered as an efficient andquickest way to deliver product upgrades and technical support.
Supported platforms: Windows XP/7/8/8.1/10
dbForge Studio for MySQL offers visual MySQL development andadministration.
There are three editions: Express, Standard, andProfessional:
Express is a FREE application that provides basicfunctionality for working with schema objects, user accounts, SQL scripts, andqueries.

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