SQuirreL SQL Client

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SQuirreL SQL Client
Developed by	Colin Bell, Gerd Wagner, Rob Manning and others
Latest release	2.6.4 / January 15, 2008
OS	Cross-platform
Platform	Java
Genre	Database administration tool
License	LGPL
Website	www.squirrelsql.org

The SQuirreL SQL Client is a database administration tool. It uses JDBC to allow users to explore and interact with databases via a JDBC driver. It provides an editor that offers code completion and syntax highlighting for standard SQL. It also provides a plugin architecture that allows plugin writers to modify much of the application's behavior to provide database-specific functionality or features that are database-independent. As this desktop application is written entirely in Java with Swing UI components, it should run on any platform that has a JVM.

SQuirreL SQL Client is free as open source software that is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

[edit] Feature Summary

Object Tree allows for browsing database objects such as catalogs, schemas, tables, triggers, views, sequences, procedures, UDTs, etc.
The SQL Editor is based on the NetBeans core editing components to provide syntax highlighting. It can be used to open, create, save and execute files containing SQL statements.
Supports simultaneous sessions with multiple databases.
It runs on any platform that has a JVM.
Plugin architecture to facilitate database vendor-specific extensions (Information or actions not available using standard JDBC - see SQuirreL SQL Client Plugin API for more details)
Translations for the user interface are available in 8 languages (Bulgarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Italian, Spanish).

[edit] History

The SQuirreL SQL project was developed by a team of Java developers around the world and led by Colin Bell. It has been hosted as a SourceForge project since 2001, and is still being developed today.