QtSQL Browser 0.85 review
DownloadThe purpose of this project is to provide a simple, generic GUI database browsing frontend
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The purpose of this project is to provide a simple, generic GUI database browsing frontend. The tool is a very simple aggregation of the Qt database classes.
The database abstraction is provided by the Qt database drivers. So far, the drivers for PostgreSQL and MySQL have been found to work well.
In principle, there is no reason why ODBC drivers for popular databases such as Oracle, DB2, Informix as well as Firebird and SAP/DB shouldn't work via the Qt ODBC3 abstraction layer.
However, some preliminary tests with these have not been promising. It may be that the only way to get some of these working is to create a native Qt database driver. This is something I'll be looking into much later.
At the moment, it is only possible to build the system on Unix and similar systems. Since Trolltech have released a version of Qt for OSX under the GPL and have announced their intention to do likewise for Win32, it should be possible to provide ports for both of these platforms. For the moment though, I just provide the source.
Here are some key features of "QtSQL Browser":
Tree browser for databases and tables
Display of table descriptions
Display of table contents in main window
Execution of ad-hoc SQL queries in the query tab
Command line history in the query tab
Retrieval of database connection details from XML config file
Retrieval of other configuration parameters from XML config file
Prompting for connection password
Addition of new connections via GUI to the running application and the config file
Display database views with a separate icon
Create a connection name independent of the database name
A "Test" button when creating a new connection
Dynamically generate a list of available drivers
Configuration via autoconf
Fixed bug with executing updates/inserts twice
Refreshing of a DB connection
Deleting of connections via the GUI
Editting of connections via the GUI
Check for the existence of ~/.qtsql
Creation of skeleton config file
Auto saving/restoring of history
Loading of queries
Saving of results
Keyboard shortcuts
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