[Locomotive-users] ORM and ERD tools

[Phillip Novess]

I use Navicat for MySQL. It really is the best tool for MySQL  
development. Everything else seems like a clunky java app.  I dunno  
why so many people love CocoaMySQL. I've had problems/bugs in the  
past using it. Specifically it has problems with changing the table  
definitions. But maybe it's because I'm using MySQL 5. Plus it  
doesn't support views or functions.

Navicat also has a universal binary for Mac and supports version 5.  
if you are using mySQL 5 then you can create views and functions.  
It's a commercial product but it's a nominal price.

For Oracle development I use Oracles own SQLDeveloper. It's a free  
tool that runs on any platform. Supports some key features that most  
DB tools, at least the ones on Mac OSX, seem to miss. Things like  
support for materialized views, views, PL/SQL development, etc. Still  
not as nice as say Toad on Windows but it's the best for the Mac that  
I've seen.

- phill

On Oct 3, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:

> I am looking (again) at tools that aid the development of database  
> intensive applications. As I learn more about Ruby on Rails and  
> Locomotive, I would like to have some tools to ease db side of things.
>
> What tools are popular with people on this list?
>
> TIA,
>  - Mark Phillips
>
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