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UPDATE: By now, if you have been reading much of what I write, you most likely have picked up that I put a lot of stock into the Customer Service that I receive from a company, I mean that speaks volumes as to the core of that company as far as I am concerned. I also strive to deliver the utmost in customer service as I go about my day to day travels, so maybe that is why it means so much to me when I am a customer. That being said, when I purchased this piece of software and received my registration information (Name and Key) to unlock it, something was amiss. I believe it was generated and mailed from an automated system, and I don’t know what went wrong, but something did and it didn’t work when I tried to register my software purchase. I emailed tech support and explained the situation, even including relevant details from my purchase receipt. I was hoping for a quick response, but I didn’t expect a reply within mere minutes, and not just some automated “Yeah, we gotcha” message, but a fix for the problem that worked. Oh yeah, that’s good customer service. Maybe I just got lucky this time, maybe not, I prefer to think of it as someone who shares my same vision and passion for kickass customer support! I was so impressed, I had to update my review, and share the good experience. Thanks.
Great stuff ahead! I came across something that I have to share with everyone. This is a Cool Tool pick from all of us here at Solarum, and it’s a top notch pick if I say so myself. Let me start by saying that I love databases! I love to build ’em, tune ’em, tinker with ’em, you name it. Heck, sometimes I create databases just for fun, even if I don’t need one that instant for an app I am working on. Speaking of creating and using databases, I do a lot of web development and therefore I use a lot of databases to get done what I want to get done.
About now, you are probably asking yourself why in the world is this crazy nut telling me about his database fetish? Well, I am glad you asked! For years now I have been on the lookout for a really good design tool that would let me graphically draw, create, brainstorm, edit … well, whatever the heck I want to do with databases. Being a visual person, the graphical part of this desire was pretty important to me. It was also what seemed to be the hardest to find, a good graphical tool. I tried MySQL workbench, Visio and DBDesigner to name a few, but none of them really stood up to even basic requirements either functionally or visually. It seems that I could find one or the other, but not both. Maybe I am just too picky. Or at least that is what I thought until I ran across this awesome little tool called DbSchema. Oh yeah!
Not only does this tool perform great for many database operations (reverse engineer a database, design a database, sync project to database, generate SQL files, grouping and more), but I have to tell you that this tool is a work of art, I mean it’s beautiful. So when you combine beauty, form and function, you get a very nice tool that actually makes me want to work. Well, maybe … 🙂
You can even download a free version of the tool at http://www.dbschema.com/download.html, so go check it out.
*Note: No compensation or consideration of any kind was received by Solarum for this post/review.