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DBeaver is great, but it's so heavy/clunky on OSX. Also, 99% of the time I want 1. tables+data 2. data structure+index of table 3. search 4. sql query

DBeaver aims to be a full admin system and simply getting to the data makes me drill 3-4 levels deep in a tree and it's quite annoying that only adds to the "clunky-ness".



There’s an option, simple view on connection or something, that eliminates much of the hierarchy.


OH WOW. This makes it significantly more usable. Thanks for it!

I'm going to give it another serious go. I like TablePlus but I prefer open source options.

I've been using PostBird which fails pretty hard at any "large" data inside a single cell. The columns just bleed everywhere. I'm sad it's not true OSS because I know the community really wanted to take it much further but the original maintainer didn't want to. Their right, I get it, still sad.


Yeah, to me TablePlus feels much better to use than anything else honestly, even if it's not open source.


On Mac OS I use Sequel Ace for MariaDB/MySQL, it's a spiritual successor to Sequel Pro. Native UI. Works great. https://sequel-ace.com/




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