HeidiSQL - MySQL made easy

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HeidiSQL is a lightweight, Windows based interface for managing MySQL and Microsoft SQL databases. It enables you to browse and edit data, create and edit tables, views, procedures, triggers and scheduled events. Also, you can export structure and data either to SQL file, clipboard or to other servers. read more...

News

22 Jan New feature: Pluggable authentication

Starting with MySQL 5.5.7 or MariaDB 5.2, the server allows the client to authenticate via plugin. HeidiSQL now fully supports establishing such connections, by providing an exported method called mysql_authentication_dialog_ask, which is automatically invvoked by libmysql.dll, if the server says so during the connection handshake.Curious how that works? Here's a simple example:1. Be sure to ha ... [read]
19 Jan New feature: SSL settings in user manager

In MySQL you can restrict users to connect only via SSL settings. HeidiSQL's user manager now adds support for these settings, which include cipher, subject and issuer. You can also select X509 certificate, in which case cipher etc. do not matter. To get this new feature, you just need to update to the latest build (see Help > Check for updates). [read]
10 Dec Automated installer creation

On the download page you will find the executable for each SVN commit in the HeidiSQL repository. The executables are processed in conjunction with a SVN post commit hook. I just extended this process so it also creates the installer with that executable, using a InnoSetup command line. This way, users who need a full installer and also want to use the latest build can do that in one download.T ... [read]
19 Nov Windows authentication on SQL servers

Users of MS SQL servers may find it useful to connect to their server via Windows authentication. The login dialog disables username + password in that case, as these are not required (indeed ignored by the server). The old option "Prompt for credentials" is now mutually exclusive to the new checkbox option "Windows authentication". Makes no sense to prompt for user+pass which then are ignored ... [read]
18 Nov Black icons on Wine fixed

Wine users reported this a couple of times in HeidiSQL's bug tracker, and also on WineHQ there were several reports for the same thing found: black color on icon areas which should be transparent. Cosmetic though quite annoying for a GUI which provides important buttons on a main toolbar. Wine 1.3.33 says this is fixed now, as stated on WineHQ. [read]