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Add to SafariWhen comparing HeidiSQL vs SQL Notebook, the Slant community recommends HeidiSQL for most people. In the question“What are the best SQL Clients for Windows?” HeidiSQL is ranked 2nd while SQL Notebook is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose HeidiSQL is:
Licensed under GNU GPL.
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Pros
Pro Free
Licensed under GNU GPL.
Pro Portable
Alongside the possibility of downloading the installer and sourcecode, a portable version of the software is available.
Pro Great UI and ease of use
HeidiSQL has a comprehensive and intuitive interface.
Pro Syntax completion
Pro Lightweight
Pro Great user management
The user manager of HeidiSQL can easily set privileges on a per-database level or give access to only certain commands.
Pro Data synchronization
HeidiSQL can compare and synchronize your data and structure between local and remote databases.
Pro SSH tunnel
HeidiSQL allows connecting to your MySQL database via SSH tunnel.
Pro Connect to servers via command line
You can use command line parameters to automate connections.
Pro Works fine with Wine under Linux
Pro Portable version
Pro Cross database queries
Any combination of data sources can be used together in the same SQL query, including cross-file, cross-database, and cross-server queries.
Pro Multi database
Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
Pro Free
Free and open source.
Cons
Con Can be buggy
HeidiSQL is known to have some bugs that results in crashes.
Con Intellisense is not intelligent
No intellisense for columns unless table name is aliased.
Con UI design is very bad
Generic windows form
Con No session backup
You cannot recover your session after close or even worse crash.
Con Works under Linux only with Wine
It works quite well under Wine with Linux, but you must always take notice if the last version of HeidiSQL has been tested, for it may not run at all. There are some bugs in the Wine version that can be annoying and you have to kill the program and restart it. A native Linux version would be great.
Con No built-in debugger included
Con Some queries do not work
Did some tests with PostgreSQL 9.5 and some complicated queries did not work.
