Please note that SQL Workbench/J has no relation to the product MySQL Workbench which is maintained and owned by Oracle. If you are looking for MySQL Workbench support please contact Oracle.

SQL Workbench/J requires Java 6 (aka JDK 1.6) or later!

Stable release

Current stable release: Build 114, 2013-01-21 (Release History)

The generic package contains the jar file, the manual (HTML and PDF) and the shell scripts for Linux to start the application. It also contains the Windows® launcher and sample XSLT scripts.

The download includes the language files for English and German. The application's language can be changed from within the options dialog (Tools -> Options).

The Mac package is suitable to be extracted on the Mac desktop and contains the jar file, a launcher for MacOS, the manual and the sample XSLT scripts. No shell scripts are included in the Mac package.

• Download generic package for all systems
• Download package for MacOS
• Source code

If you want to import or export Microsoft Excel files (XLS, XLSX) or import OpenOffice Calc documents, download the packages that include the office libraries (approx. 18MB).

• Generic package including libraries to read and write office (ods,xls,xlsx) documents
• MacOS including libraries to read and write office (ods,xls,xlsx) documents

Please note:

If you have copied the jar files for the Excel support before, please delete all existing ones before extracting the archive as some of the library names have changed.

Older versions can be downloaded from the download archive

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A note to Windows Vista users.

A note to Mac OS X users

Current development build: 114.9 ( 2013-05-12)