“Pretty aggressive release schedule”, I thought. The next day I mistakenly clicked the shortcut to the old version and was asked to upgrade again. It created a brand new DBVisualizer install and left the old one and still imported my settings. The first upgrade process felt disconcerting because it wasn’t clear if running the exe was going to upgrade an existing install, erase my settings, or what.It has commonly accepted keystrokes for searching, editing cells, deleting rows, and saving changes. The grid interface for editing data is well done.Unfortunately, there does not seem to be keystroke access to the favorites bar. It is somewhat hidden at first as you need to show/hide the favorites toolbar from the view menu. This feature gets the most enthusiasm from my coworkers.
Opening an item from the favorites bar opens the object tree to the correct place so that it is then easy to access other items near it. Favorites items have the same context menus as the regular item in the tree. DBVisualizer helps by allowing you to drag your most used database objects to a favorites bar for easy access. One of the most tedious things about any SQL client is drilling down to get to the object you need.Their people are really good about accepting bug reports and feature requests and I’ve nitpicked to them. I compiled a list of all the things I liked and disliked about the program. Somehow these guys made a super flexible but simple and intuitive tool. It has easy installation, a great SQL editor, built-in support (and drivers) for many databases, quick object and data editing, and most of all simplicity. There are a lot of things to love about dbvisualizer.
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