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I normally use mySQL Workbench, but love PHPstorm and see they make an IDE for Databases. Do any of you use DataGrip? Do you like it?
@tovisbratsburg I know this isn't what you were asking about but I can't recommend TablePlus enough. It's simple/clean connects to MySQL, SQLite, Redis, etc. I also would argue it is probably the most popular in the Laravel community and fairly inexpensive (or free if you can deal with limited tabs).
I could see using DataGrip if you enjoy PHPStorm though. I personally code in VS Code most often.
I can't get over the Microsoft part of VS code :-).
I'll check out TablePlus though.
@tovisbratsburg Honestly, I'm 100% in agreement with you... but I look at it like, Microsoft bought out Atom and just stole most of what was good about that. I loathe Microsoft but VS Code is something I'll actually defend as being REALLY good for the most part.
I would actually even say, PHP Storm feels more like a Microsoft product to me than VS Code does. Let that one mess with your mind for a while. =)
Good point, I used Dreamweaver for a long time, with Godaddy. After banging my head on the wall I swapped to Bitnami LAMP on Google Cloud with Sublime Text and mySQL WorkBench along with Filezilla.
Sublime text was good when designing my own stuff using vanilla everything, but now that I am getting into Frameworks I love PHPstorm.
FYI DataGrip is already integrated in phpStorm.
I use it daily and it has replaced SQLYog which I used at the time for db management (5 years ago). It's handy to have everything in one spot.
I wondered this, is it the same thing, or is what is integrated in there a watered down version of DataGrip?
Yes
What is the difference between DataGrip and the Database plugin in other IntelliJ IDE products like IDEA, PyCharm, PhpStorm?
It is the same. DataGrip and the Database plugin for IntelliJ IDEA have the same functionality.
As a third alternative, Sequel Ace is also a fairly useful tool if you work solely with MySQL/MariaDB on macOS. It's an unofficial, maintained fork of Sequel Pro and it works wonders.
My co-workers would also recommend TablePlus.
I am on Ubuntu.
JetBrains product is full of feature. I love JetBrains! (Powerful indexing)
TablePlus is laggy and query autocomplete is not as good like DataGrip.
Syslog is stable and visual schema.
Navicat is simplify but very buggy.
Datagrip, very powerful but hungry memory resources.
Is DataGrip already fully in PHPStorm?
My question is No! Just small part in PHPStorm only.
JetBrains new feature is very useful.
That why, JetBrain earn hundred of million dollar every year.
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