When comparing Database .NET vs SQLGate, the Slant community recommends SQLGate for most people. In the question“What are the best SQL Clients for Windows?” SQLGate is ranked 8th while Database .NET is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose SQLGate is:
Functions; filter, sort and group on grid / Copy, past, sum and statistics functions like excel.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Portable
Pro Multiple databases
Supported databases:
- SQL Server
- SQL Azure
- LocalDB
- MySQL
- Oracle
- IBM DB2
- Informix
- PostgreSQL
- HP Vertica
- NuoDB
- Teradata
- Sybase ASE
- Firebird
- SQLite
- SQLCe
- Access
- Excel
- VistaDB
- dBase
- FoxPro
- OleDB
- ODBC
- OData
- Text
- NoSQL
Pro Diagrams
Can generate diagrams.
Pro Quick data analysis
Functions; filter, sort and group on grid / Copy, past, sum and statistics functions like excel.
Pro Saves time with autocomplete & template functions
Pro Fast processing and easy customization
They put out weekly updates, so there are new and impressive functions being added pretty consistently.
Pro Supports cloud-based DB such as AWS & Azure
Pro Includes PL/SQL editor and debugger
Pro ER diagrams
Entity Relationship database diagrams limitations are: only supports reverse engineering, and can not export to formats other than .erd
Cons
Con Website
The website looks chaotic and gives a bad first impression of an otherwise good product.
Con Logon
The logon process after starting up the application is rather long winded (tested with PostgreSQL, no defaults shown for e.g. port number).
Con Free version is limited
e.g. only 10 tables allowed in ERD designer.