SQL Workbench/J is a free, DBMS-independent, cross-platform SQL query tool. It is written in Java and thus it should run on any operating system that provides a Java Runtime Environment.
It's main focus is on running SQL scripts (either interactively or as a batch) and export/import features. Graphical query building or more advanced DBA tasks are not the focus and are not planned
Current stable version: Build 104 (2009-05-06)
Current development build:
104.3 (
2009-06-28)
Features:
- Display result data from SQL queries (Screenshot)
- Edit, insert and delete data directly in the result table (Screenshot)
- Powerful export command to write text files (aka "CSV"), XML, HTML or SQL (including BLOB data).
All user tables can be exported into a directory with a single command. Export files can be compress "on-the-fly". - Powerful text and XML file import. A set of files (including compressed files) can be imported from a directory with a single command. Foreign key constraints are detected to insert the data in the correct order
- Reformatting (Pretty-Print) of SQL Statements (Screenshot)
- Full support for BLOB data in query results, SQL statements, export and import. Read more...
- Select rows from related tables according to their foreign key definitions (Screenshot1 Screenshot2).
- Compare two database schemas for differences. The XML output can be transformed into the approriate SQL ALTER statements using XSLT
- Compare the data of two database and generate the necessary SQL statements to migrate one to the other.
- Copy data directly between to database servers using a SQL command or a GUI (Screenshot)
- Makros (aka aliases) for frequently used SQL statements
- Variable substitution in SQL statements including smart prompting for values (can be combined with Makros)
- Auto completion for tables and columns in SQL statements (Screenshot)
- All SQL Scripts (including Workbench specific commands) can be run in batch mode
- A simple interactive console mode (Screenshot)
- Support for pluggable Look & Feels (e.g. JGoodies Looks
) - SQLWorkbench/J is free (License agreement)
SQL Workbench/J also displays important information about the structure of a database schema
- Display table, view and procedure definitions (Screenshot)
- Display view, procedure and trigger source code (Screenshot)
- Display foreign key constraints between tables (Screenshot)
- Search for data across all (character) columns in several tables (Screenshot)