Re: Database Tooling

Yes, I'm a big dBeaver fan myself.  I especially like that I can install it pretty much any Eclipse configuration, not just RDi.  In part 2 of my series on creating a virtual LAMP stack, I show how to use the Eclipse PDT (since it's free!) to work with the Linux VM, and part 5 will show how to install and use dBeaver to manage the MySQL portion of the LAMP stack.  But I haven't actually tried using the ERD support in the tool; that hasn't been a big focus for me currently.

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Article 1: Building Your Linux VM
https://www.mcpressonline.com/operating-systems/linux-open-source/practical-linux-building-your-linux-vm
Article 2: Practical Linus: Using PDT to Manage Linux
https://www.mcpressonline.com/operating-systems/linux-open-source/practical-linux-using-pdt-to-manage-linux

On 4/7/2019 5:40 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

Thanks Joe.

I should point out that this is not for personal user per-se. I am trying to build a "shopping list" for clients who ask for advice on the subject.

I've been using the free Eclipse plug-in for DBeaver and quite like that. I was hoping to give the latest version of Data Studio a trial run on the Mac for a comparison - but I just found out that the IBM recommendation is to run it in Windows on a Docker instance. Yea - right. If was willing to do that I'd be running it in Parallels today. Very disappointing as there had been several strong hints that a Mac version was coming real-soon-now.