Best SQL IDEs for SQL Server
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This a list of SQL IDEs that integrate with SQL Server. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with SQL Server. View the products that work with SQL Server in the table below.
What are SQL IDEs for SQL Server?
SQL IDEs (Integrated Development Environments) are software tools that provide a comprehensive environment for writing, testing, and optimizing SQL queries. These platforms typically offer features such as code autocompletion, syntax highlighting, query execution, database connection management, and debugging tools, making it easier for developers to interact with relational databases. SQL IDEs often include tools for managing database schemas, visualizing query results, and optimizing query performance. By using these tools, developers can improve productivity, reduce errors, and enhance the efficiency of their database-related tasks. Compare and read user reviews of the best SQL IDEs for SQL Server currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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DbVisualizer
DbVisualizer
DbVisualizer is one of the world's most popular database editors. With almost 7 million downloads and Pro users in 150 countries worldwide, it won't disappoint you. Free and Pro versions are available. Developers, analysts, and DBAs use it to elevate their SQL experience with modern tools to visualize and manage their databases, schemas, objects, and table data, auto-generate, write, and optimize queries, and so much more. It connects to all popular databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Cassandra, Snowflake, SQLite, BigQuery, and 30+ others, and runs on all popular OSes (Windows, macOS, and Linux). A powerful SQL editor with intelligent autocomplete, visual query builders, variables, and more. You can fully control window layouts, key bindings, UI theme, mark scripts, and database objects as favorites for quick access or even work outside of DbVisualizer. DbVisualizer is also built to meet rigorous security standards, all configurable within the product.Starting Price: Free -
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datapine
RIB Software GmbH
datapine’s business intelligence and dashboard software helps people to turn data into actionable insights and make data-driven decisions in real-time. A user-friendly drag & drop interface empowers managers to data scientists to visualize and analyze complex data by asking important business questions and receiving answers immediately. It offers a wealth of innovative analytics features like predictive analytics and dynamic, interactive business dashboards for modern, KPI driven businesses. Dozens of fast and easy data connectors to all common data sources (databases, flat files, social media, marketing analytics, CRM, ERP, helpdesk etc.) and a wealth of pre-build dashboard templates for different business functions (marketing, sales, management, HR etc.), industries (retail, logistics, healthcare, market research etc.) and platforms (Google Analytics, Facebook, Twitter, Zendesk etc.) help new users to get started quickly. datapine is a RIB Software GmbH solution.Starting Price: $249.00/month -
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DataGrip
JetBrains
Meet DataGrip, our new database IDE that is tailored to suit the specific needs of professional SQL developers. Allows you to execute queries in different modes and provides a local history that keeps track of all your activity and protects you from losing your work. Lets you jump to any table, view, or procedure by its name via the corresponding action, or directly from its usages in the SQL code. Gives you an extended insight into how your queries work and into the database engine behavior, so you can make your queries more efficient. DataGrip provides context-sensitive code completion, helping you to write SQL code faster. Completion is aware of the tables structure, foreign keys, and even database objects created in code you're editing. DataGrip detects probable bugs in your code and suggests the best options to fix them on the fly. It will immediately let you know about unresolved objects, using keywords as identifiers and always offers a way to fix the problems.Starting Price: $199 per year -
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DBeaver
DBeaver
Free multi-platform database tool for developers, database administrators, analysts and all people who need to work with databases. Supports all popular databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access, Teradata, Firebird, Apache Hive, Phoenix, Presto, etc. Copy As: format configuration editor was added. Extra configuration for filter dialog (performance). Sort by column as fixed (for small fetch sizes). Case-insensitive filters support was added. Plaintext view now support top/bottom dividers. Data editor was fixed (when column name conflicts with alias name). Duplicate row(s) command was fixed for multiple selected rows. Edit sub-menu was returned to the context menu. Columns auto-size configuration was added. Dictionary viewer was fixed (for read-only connections). Current/selected row highlighting support was added (configurable). -
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Navicat Premium
Navicat
Navicat Premium is a database development tool that allows you to simultaneously connect to MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases from a single application. Compatible with cloud databases like Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud and MongoDB Atlas. You can quickly and easily build, manage and maintain your databases. Data Transfer, Data Synchronization and Structure Synchronization help you migrate your data easier and faster for less overhead. Deliver detailed, step-by-step guidelines for transferring data across various DBMS. Compare and synchronize databases with Data and Structure Synchronization. Set up and deploy the comparisons in seconds, and get the detailed script to specify the changes you want to execute.Starting Price: $64.99 per month -
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DbSchema
Wise Coders
DbSchema is for visual designing the schema in a team, deploy and document the schema. Other integrated features like data explorer, visual query editor, data generator, etc., makes DbSchema an every-day tool for everybody who interacts with databases. DbSchema supports all relational and No-SQL databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, MariaDB, Redshift, Snowflake, Google and more. DbSchema is reverse-engineering the database schema from the database and visualize it as diagrams. You will interact with the database using diagrams and visual tools. DbSchema model is using its copy of schema structure, independent from the database. This allows the schema deployment on multiple databases, save the design model to file, store it in GIT and design the schema in a team, design the schema without database connectivity, compare different versions of the schema and generate SQL migration scripts.Starting Price: $63 one time payment -
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SQLGate
CHEQUER
SQLGate is a simple but powerful IDE for multiple SQL databases. As an integrated database management and development solution, it simplifies the construction and operation of databases. It is customized for seven different databases that make up 83.2% of the DBMS market. These include Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, Tibero, and PostgreSQL. SQLGate makes it easier and quicker to deal with databases holding large amounts of data. Multiple Languages available: Korean, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, etc..Starting Price: Free -
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Aqua Data Studio
AquaFold, an Idera, Inc. company
Aqua Data Studio is a multiple-platform, integrated development environment (IDE) for data. It provides benefits to a variety of data-centric roles, allowing them to manage a wide range of data sources. Aqua Data Studio provides scalable, cross-platform data management, supporting IT and data-centric specialists, including developers, database administrators, as well as data analysts, data modelers, and data architects. Simplifies tedious tasks involving SQL queries, data, result sets, schema, data models, files, instances, servers, as well as automation. Aqua Data Studio can be installed on the three popular operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, and Linux. The graphical user interface can display the nine of the most widely spoken languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Korean, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese. Aqua Data Studio supports over 40 of the most popular data source platforms, including relational, NoSQL, as well as managed cloud data sourceStarting Price: $499 per user per year -
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DbGate
Sprinx Systems
DbGate is a cross-platform SQL + NoSQL client that runs on Windows, macOS, Linux as desktop app, or in Docker - and then entirely in your browser. It has very powerful data browser, which allows you to quickly find or modify, what you need, even when using complicated relations. There are many filtering options allowing you in few clicks define quite complex conditions. You could of course use classical SQL editor with code completion or query designer. DbGate also has capability of design queries on NoSQL databases and event join results with SQL databases. Database compare tool is very fast, as it uses already cached DB models. You could browse and filter objects by type (table, view, procedure function) and by comparing status (equal, changed, added, removed). You could also deploy changes to database. Quite new feature is DbGate Cloud - online storage for connections and SQL scripts. You could also share folders with connections with others, with role-base permission access.Starting Price: Free -
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dbForge Studio for SQL Server is a comprehensive platform with an intuitive graphical user interface and robust functionality that enables users to handle a variety of database-related tasks both on-premises and in the cloud. Key Features: T-SQL editor with intelligent code completion, debugging, formatting, and more Database schema and data comparison and synchronization Source Control with support for all popular version control systems Visual database designer with ER diagrams. Visual Query Builder for constructing complex T-SQL queries Data import and export Data generator of high-quality test data Real-time database monitoring Query Profiler with analysis and optimization Data analysis, visualization, and reporting Automatic database documenting Task automation via the Command line dbForge Studio for SQL Server is a powerful alternative to SSMS. It offers the features of the default SQL Server IDE along with many additional tools and options.Starting Price: $229.95
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TablePlus
TablePlus InC
Modern, native client with intuitive GUI tools to create, access, query & edit multiple databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, MariaDB, CockroachDB, Vertica, Cassandra, Snowflake, Oracle, Redis.Starting Price: $59.00 -
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JackDB
JackDB
Write and execute queries in a fully interactive SQL editor. JackDB has everything you'd want in a database client, including: syntax highlighting, code formatting, and intelligent autocompletion. Snippets allow your most useful SQL queries to be saved and shared. Simply write and save any query in JackDB, and share the snippet publicly with your team. Whenever anyone updates a snippet, everyone gets access to its latest version. Security is our highest priority at JackDB. Roles are a very convenient and secure way to restrict database access to authorized users and provision new users with access to data sources. Explore everything in your database, not just tables and views. View your indexes, schemas, and other important system details such as tablespaces and user sessions.Starting Price: $49 per user per month -
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HeidiSQL
HeidiSQL
HeidiSQL is free software, and has the aim to be easy to learn. "Heidi" lets you see and edit data and structures from computers running one of the database systems MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Invented in 2002 by Ansgar, HeidiSQL belongs to the most popular tools for MariaDB and MySQL worldwide. Free for everyone, OpenSource. Connect to multiple servers in one window. Supported database systems: MariaDB, MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Connect to servers via commandline. Connect via SSH tunnel, or pass SSL settings. Create and edit tables, views, stored routines, triggers and scheduled events. Generate nice SQL-exports, compress these afterwards, or put them on the clipboard. Export from one server/database directly to another server/database. Manage user-privileges, import text-files, export table rows as CSV, HTML, XML, SQL, LaTeX, Wiki Markup and PHP Array. Browse and edit table-data using a comfortable grid.Starting Price: $0 -
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Beekeeper Studio
Beekeeper Studio
Encrypt your connection with SSL, or tunnel through SSH. Save a connection password and Beekeeper Studio will encrypt it. Our built-in editor provides syntax highlighting and auto-complete suggestions for your tables so you can work quickly and easily. Open dozens of tabs so you can work quickly without having to switch windows. Table DDL and data views get their own tabs too! Easily save and organize commonly used queries so you can use them again and again across all your connections. Beekeeper's SQL table creator lets you create, edit, and delete table columns in just a few clicks. Export a table to CSV, JSON, JSONL, or SQL with just a few clicks. Optionally apply filters to export only the data you need.Starting Price: $7 per month -
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SQLPro Studio
SQLPro Studio
SQLPro Studio is a fully native, cross-platform database management tool. It supports a wide range of database systems and provides several features including syntax highlighting, SQL autocompletion, customizable themes, and tabbed interfaces for managing multiple queries simultaneously. It also offers cloud support for services like Amazon RDS, Microsoft Azure, and Heroku, along with SSH tunneling and master password protection for enhanced security. SQLPro Studio is optimized for performance and user experience, providing an intuitive interface without relying on Java, ensuring faster and more reliable operation. You can execute multiple queries and have the results for each displayed at the same time, including any errors and messages. SQLPro boasts an intuitive interface, where the most basic to advanced database needs are easily accessible.Starting Price: $17.07 per month -
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Reportql
Reportql
Reportql is a SQL-based, AI-powered data visualization tool designed to streamline the process of generating real-time reports and dashboards. It enables users to connect their databases and effortlessly query data using natural language, eliminating the need for extensive development cycles and reducing dependency on developers. It supports multiple AI models, including OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Mistral, facilitating instant data insights without the necessity for AI model training or investment. Features include the creation of real-time dashboards displaying essential metrics from various databases, automated email reports triggered by scheduled or event-driven actions, and alert notifications for shifts in key performance indicators, trends, anomalies, or metric digests. Reportql's low-code interface accelerates report creation, allowing developers to deliver reports ten times faster, while its AI capabilities empower end-users to access data instantly.Starting Price: $29 per month
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