dbForge Studio for MySQL Express

dbForge Studio for MySQL Express is an IDE that facilitates a user-friendly graphical interface for establishing MySQL and MariaDB connections in order to manage and develop databases. It comes packed with the tools necessary for building and executing SQL queries, developing and debugging routines, and for analyzing information.

This express version is free and supplies you with basic functions for handling user accounts, schema objects, queries, and SQL scripts. During setup, you can associate the application with SQL scripts (SQL format) and database diagrams (DBD format).

From the main app window, you can access an SQL editor to create new queries and edit existing SQL documents just like using a typical text editor, a query builder that's aided by a visual designer, a query profiler capable of optimizing SELECT statements, a script executor that supports large scripts without memory loading, as well as a debugger for stored procedures.

In addition to the SQL development tools, you can access database design components for creating new database diagrams, database objects or schema comparison projects, and for locating database objects by name pattern or attributes. There's also a wizard available for quickly putting together new projects by following simple steps.

It's possible to manage user accounts and permissions for dbForge Studio for MySQL Express keep track of ongoing sessions and the activity of other users, back up the database, verify, optimize and fix tables, manage MySQL service instances from one spot, modify MySQL server variables, restore databases from backups, and flush objects. Table data can be exported to file and later imported.

All aspects considered, dbForge Studio for MySQL Express comes bundled with practical options to help you create and manage SQL databases from user-friendly interface. It worked smoothly on Windows 10 in our evaluation.