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Add to SafariWhen comparing DbForge Studio for PostgreSQL vs SQLGate, the Slant community recommends SQLGate for most people. In the question“What are the best database design programs?” SQLGate is ranked 2nd while DbForge Studio for PostgreSQL is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose SQLGate is:
Functions; filter, sort and group on grid / Copy, past, sum and statistics functions like excel.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Advanced code completion features
Prompting the names of existing materialized views, as well as context prompting of database objects
Pro Query Profiler
Helpful diagrams of query execution, and also the list of operations that takes place on the server
Pro Data Editor
The data can be edited in the same way as with Google Sheets/MS Excel or in the card view mode.
Pro High execution speed
Downloading the main_ExceptionFrames.sql file of 100 Mb in size ~ 1 min
Pro SQL Code Formatter
Automatic formatting of SQL Code based on user-chosen code styles
Pro Data Export/Import
10+ file format support, including Google Sheets
Pro Master-Detail Browser
The 'design view' for setting up relations between tables, smart sorting, and filtering
Pro Code complition
Prompting keywords for functions etc.
Pro Cached update mode in Data Editor
Allows to control data editing within database objects
Pro Generate Script AS feature
Allows generating a script for the CREATE statements for specific database objects (views, materialized views, triggers, functions, procedures)
Pro Object Explorer
Provides a quick navigation through the object tree
Pro File format support
Dozen of file formats are supported, including Google sheets.
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 Data export
Data export does an individual insert per row of data, which is a little inefficient.
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.
