Comments on: Navicat MySQL: A Tool for Developers and DBAs

By: error

error — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:48:48 +0000

Ive been using SQLYog for years and paid for the enterprise edition. Upgrade support expires after 1 year and if you miss an upgrade you miss an upgrade! My version cannot be updated and fails to dump some large tables. Since I will have to fork out some cash to get a newer version of SQLYog I thought I should look at the market.

Navicat trial version worked first time!

Since I have to pay to upgrade SQLYog (about the same as Navicat) then buying Navicat is a no-brainer for me. Navicat has a better (IMO) upgrade policy and the premium version (still very reasonable price) works for MYSql, Oracle and PostgreSQL.

Easy decision.

By: Tyson

Tyson — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:29:08 +0000

hey guyz, i am a dba user. i have tried both navicat and sqlyog and also other mysql gui tools. Amongst all i vote for sqlyog which simply rocks with its best and improved stable features. you can have best try out of it.

By: fedmich

fedmich — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:20:15 +0000

Yes, I agree. I love this program. Saved me a lot of hours uploading those really-really huge databases.

Thanks

By: will.fitch

will.fitch — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:27:10 +0000

Good post Mark.

I’m personally not a fan of SQL Yog, and I paid for the enterprise version. I found that it crashes with large sums of data brought back.

I do use HTTP tunneling with Navicat and it works beautifully. To each their own.

By: Mark Matthews

Mark Matthews — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:04:06 +0000

I have tried both Sqlyog and Navicat. Initial impression was that Navicat had more features and followed “Access” like interface, so it was better.

However I kept the community version of Sqlyog and I was not disappointed. In terms of speed, sqlyog beats navicat all the way (try bringing a table with 10,000+ rows in the data grid). Moreover, my hosted MySQL server does not allow direct connection and Navicat over HTTP tunnel was non-functional.

Yes, Navicat has got some eye-candy as compared to Sqlyog, but I think the community edition of Sqlyog does > 99% of my work, and since I sync my data to my laptop everyday I shelled out $50 to get an enterprise edition.

Just my 2 cents.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:13:59 +0000

I’ve been using Navicat MySql for about 3 months now and as far as I’m concerned it blows all other clients I’ve tried out of the water (admitedly, this would not be difficult).

It has some very nice features for importing and exporting tables and data that make it really usable. I find the user interface very clean and logical.

It still feels like a young product that has some way to go towards having a rich feature set, but a new upgrade is coming in 2007 that should add a lot to it. For the money I think it is well worth it and I’m really pleased I paid for it.