I start my second semester of university on the 6th of July and one of my subjects is Database Concepts.
For the subject, we must install two programs "Oracle SQL Developer" and 'Oracle Database Express Edition". There is a Mac version Oracle SQL Developer but only Windows or Linux for Oracle Database Express Edition. I tried to install the latter with Docker but keep running into issues. Mainly when I start it there are no logs and I always get this error:
"The Oracle Database is not configured. You must run '/etc/init.d/oracle-xe-18c configure' as the root user to configure the database.
The following output is now a tail of the alert.log:
tail: cannot open '/opt/oracle/diag/rdbms///trace/alert*.log' for reading: No such file or directory
tail: no files remaining"
I have followed this tutorial and done exactly what he does but at timestamp 11:47 you can see that he has log messages while I just have the error posted above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbopSCwATIg
Hoping someone can help me with this, if I can't fix this then I will have to use my Windows partition which isn't very convenient. If there. is no solution to this can someone please recommend an alternative of Oracle Database Express Edition for Mac that is free?
Many thanks.
To run the Oracle Database in MacOS, you have different choices. The most easy ones are:
Oracle Cloud Free Tier
You can setup your free online Oracle Cloud Free Tier environment and configure your local SQL Developer installation to the Cloud environment. https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
For further information about the Cloud Free Tier environment, check the posts https://dgielis.blogspot.com/2019/09/best-and-cheapest-oracle-apex-hosting.html from Dimitri Gielis for detailed instructions on how to do that.
Note that this is the only option if you own an ARM64 (M1/M2) based Mac.
Vagrant/VM
For a local setup, this is the most easy way in my opinion, since I'm not an experienced user of Docker. Oracle has made Virtual Machines available for free, https://github.com/oracle/vagrant-projects
Use the OracleDatabase v18.4.0-XE or v19.3.0 image, if you need the database only.
Use the OracleAPEX (v18.4.0-XE) image, if you intend to use APEX as well.
Docker
If you are known to Docker or want to learn it, you can follow the link in #Bjarte Brandt comment https://github.com/bjarteb/oracle-apex-ords. The setup documentation in that link is quite comprehensive.
Update due to Apple's M1/M2 processor
Since Apple introduced new M1/M2 mac's based on the ARM cpu architecture, the only option left available for the moment is the Oracle Cloud Free Tier. Unfortunately, VirtualBox VM doesn’t support the ARM architecture yet and it doesn’t work with Rosetta..
(13/09/2022) Oracle SQL Developer 22.2.1 is now natively available for MacBook M1/M2 clients. Previous versions would need Rosetta to run. Unfortunately, no signs for VirtualBox supporting ARM yet..
If you own a MAC based on the 'old' Intel processor, you would still have the other two options as well.
I will update this answer when more options for M1/M2 mac's become available.
We have an application that makes use of OLEDB and the Jet engine Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0. We are converting our application to also run in 64-bit mode. However, the database engine is no longer a standard part of 64-bit Windows. But Office 2010 64-bit does install a 64-bit access database engine (See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=C06B8369-60DD-4B64-A44B-84B371EDE16D&displaylang=en) so you can use Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0.
So I am working on fixing issues so that our application runs in 64-bit mode as well. But the OLEDB code complains about the database engine not being registered. So I try to install the redistributable 64-bit engine on the above link. But it tells me I need to uninstall 32-bit Office 2007 first. No way am I going to do that, because I am sure some settings etc. will be lost.
So my questions are:
How is that the 32-bit database access components do not work in 64-bit mode, but you cant install the 64-bit one if the 32-bit is installed already? Does that make any sense to anyone at all?!
I realize Microsoft wants people to switch to SQL server Express, except it is too invasive, does install reliably even on clean new Windows 7 computers, and it is not simple to copy or move the data around between different machines. Is there a suitable alternative to Jet then? Something that is simple but works on 32 and 64 bit and ideally has OLEDB and ODBC support? SQLite looks promising maybe?
Just did a quick search and there doesn't seem to be alot of alternatives to Access without going to SQL server. I found This, http://www.vistadb.net/, which sounds cool but the developers license is pretty expensive.
As an alternative, you can still use Access without installing the 64 bit driver. This happened to me, had to read from Access but could not convert the app to 32 bit. My answer was to write a separate 'proxy' executable that would run in 32 bit. I'd start the app using the System.Diagnostics.Process object and communicate with it through redirected standard input and output, passing the connection string as a command line parameter. The DataTable class has built in ReadXML and WriteXML functions which makes passing the data like this easy.
I'm trying to learn MariaDB (v5.2.4), but I'm running into some issues.
I can download and install it, but it doesn't seem to be running or I'm missing something.
I'm looking for a good resource for the 1st timer running on Windows.
A few specific questions:
Does it require MySQL to run? Alot of the installation help out there seems to be geared around upgrading from MySQL, but I want to start fresh.
Is there a management tool for the database (like SQL Server Management Studio)? If not, what do people typically use?
You do not need MySQL to run MariaDB. Once you've installed MariaDB you should be able to type
net start mysql
at a command prompt and that will start MariaDB (yes you actually type mysql)
To answer the second part of your question, I know a company called Navicat used to offer an administrative gui, but I can't seem to find it on their site anymore.
If You need GUI server tool you can use Mysqlcc (it maybe work for MariaDB) or HeidiSQL (it is trully work for me) , go to google for get it...for HeidiSQL there is a portable version as I ussualy use it..but I use it in XP.....
Here you have a post about how to install MariaDB. It's in spanish, because I haven't had time yet to translate to english.
http://www.manejandodatos.es/2013/9/probando-mariadb
For the second question, I use heidiSQL.
I have used SQLyog as a GUI for MariaDB. The free version can be downloaded from here: https://code.google.com/p/sqlyog/wiki/Downloads . Also Navicat has a Mariadb Version which is paid.
As Google code has seen a shutdown,the latest version of SQLyog Community can be downloaded from here >> https://github.com/webyog/sqlyog-community/wiki/Downloads .
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How can I connect to a remote SQL server using Mac OS X? I don't really need a GUI, but it would be nice to have for the color coding and resultset grid. I'd rather not have to use a VM.
Is there a SQL client for Mac OS X that works with MS SQL Server?
Let's work together on a canonical answer.
Native Apps
SQLPro for MSSQL
Navicat
Valentina Studio
TablePlus
Java-Based
Oracle SQL Developer (free)
SQuirrel SQL (free, open source)
Razor SQL
DB Visualizer
DBeaver (free, open source)
SQL Workbench/J (free, open source)
JetBrains DataGrip
Metabase (free, open source)
Netbeans (free, open source, full development environment)
Electron-Based
Visual Studio Code with mssql extension
Azure Data Studio
SQLectron
(TODO: Add others mentioned below)
The Java-based Oracle SQL Developer has a plugin module that supports SQL Server. I use it regularly on my Mac. It's free, too.
Here's how to install the SQL Server plugin:
Run SQL Developer
go to this menu item: Oracle SQL Developer/Preferences/Database/Third-party JDBC Drivers
Click help.
It will have pointers to the JAR files for MySQL, SQL Server, etc.
The SQL Server JAR file is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtds/files/
This will be the second question in a row I've answered with this, so I think it's worth pointing out that I have no affiliation with this product, but I use it and love it and think it's the right answer to this question too: DbVisualizer.
When this question was asked there were very few tools out there were worth much. I also ended up using Fusion and a Windows client. I have tried just about everything for MAC and Linux and never found anything worthwhile. That included dbvisualizer, squirrel (particularly bad, even though the windows haters in my office swear by it), the oracle SQL developer and a bunch of others.
Nothing compared to DBArtizan on Windows as far as I was concerned and I was prepared to use it with Fusion or VirtualBox. I don't use the MS product because it is only limited to MS SQL.
Bottom line is nothing free is worthwhile, nor were most commercial non windows products
However, now (March 2010) I believe there are two serious contenders and worthwhile versions for the MAC and Linux which have a low cost associated with them. The first one is Aqua Data Studio which costs about $450 per user, which is a barely acceptable, but cheap compared to DBArtizan and others with similar functionality (but MS only). The other is RazorSQL which only costs $69 per user.
Aqua data studio is good, but a resource hog and basically pretty sluggish and has non essential features such as the ER diagram tool, which is pretty bad at that. The Razor is lightning fast and is only a 16meg download and has everything an SQL developer needs including a TSQL editor.
So the big winner is RazorSQL and for $69, well worth it and feature ridden. Believe me, after several years of waiting to find a cheap non windows substitute for DBartizan, I have finally found one and I have been very picky.
My employer produces a simple, proof-of-concept HTML5-based SQL client which can be used against any ODBC data source on the web-browser host machine, through the HTML5 WebDB-to-ODBC Bridge we also produce. These components are free, for Mac, Windows, and more.
Applicable to many of the other answers here -- the Type 1 JDBC-to-ODBC Bridge that most are referring to is the one Sun built in to and bundled with the JVM. JVM/JRE/JDK documentation has always advised against using this built-in except in experimental scenarios, or when no other option exists, because this component was built as a proof-of-concept, and was never intended for production use.
My employer makes an enterprise-grade JDBC-to-ODBC Bridge, available as either a Single-Tier (installs entirely on the client application host) or a Multi-Tier (splits components over the client application host and the ODBC data source host, enabling JDBC client applications in any JVM to use ODBC data sources on Mac, Windows, Linux, etc.). This solution isn't free.
All of the above can be used with the ODBC Drivers for Sybase & Microsoft SQL Server (or other databases) we also produce ...
I thought Sequel Pro for MySQL looked pretty interesting. It's hard to find one tool that works with all those databases (especially SQL Server 2005 . . . most people use SQL Server Management Studio and that's Windows only of course).
Squirrel SQL is a Java based SQL client, that I've had good experience with on Windows and Linux. Since it's Java, it should do the trick.
It's open source. You can run multiple sessions with multiple databases concurrently.
I vote for RazorSQL also. It's very powerful in many respects and practically supports most databases out there. I mostly use it for SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
DbVisualizer supports many different databases. There is a free edition that I have used previously. Download from here
I have had good success over the last two years or so using Navicat for MySQL.
The UI could use a little updating, but all of the tools and options they provide make the cost justifiable for me.
I use the Navicat clients for MySQL and PostgreSQL and am happy with them. "good" is obviously subjective... how do you judge your DB clients?
I've been using Oracle SQL Developer since the Microsoft software for SQL Server is not currently available on Mac OS X. It works wonders. I would also recommend RazorSQL or SQLGrinder.
I use AquaFold at work on Windows, but it's based on Java and supports Mac OS X.
I like SQLGrinder.
It's built using Cocoa, so it looks a lot better and feels more like an Mac OS X application than all the Java-based application mentioned here.
It uses JDBC drivers to connect to Microsoft SQL Server 2005, FrontBase, MySQL, OpenBase, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Sybase.
Free trial or $59.
I've used (DB Solo) and I like it a lot. It's only $99 and comparable to many more expensive tools. It supports Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL and others.
Not sure about open-source, but I've heard good things about http://www.advenio.com/sqlgrinder/ (not tried it, I prefer to write Python scripts to try things out rather than use GUIs;-).
When this question was asked, Microsoft's Remote Desktop for OS X had been unsupported for years. It wasn't a Universal Binary, and I found it to be somewhat buggy (I recall that the application will just quit after a failed connection instead of allowing you to alter the connection info and try again).
At the time I recommended the Open Source CoRD, a good RDP client for Mac.
Since then Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for Mac 2 was released.
I use Eclipse's Database development plugins - like all Java based SQL editors, it works cross platform with any type 4 (ie pure Java) JDBC driver. It's ok for basic stuff (the main failing is it struggles to give transaction control -- auto-commit=true is always set it seems).
Microsoft have a decent JDBC type 4 driver: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6D483869-816A-44CB-9787-A866235EFC7C&displaylang=en this can be used with all Java clients / programs on Win/Mac/Lin/etc.
Those people struggling with Java/JDBC on a Mac are presumably trying to use native drivers instead of JDBC ones -- I haven't used (or practically heard of) the ODBC driver bridge in almost 10 years.
It may not be the best solution if you don't already have it, but FileMaker 11 with the Actual SQL Server ODBC driver (http://www.actualtech.com/product_sqlserver.php) worked nicely for a client of mine today. The ODBC driver is only $29, but FileMaker is $299, which is why you might only consider it if you already have it.
This doesn't specifically answer your question, because I'm not sure in any clients exist in Mac OS X, but I generally just Remote Desktop into the server and work through that. Another option is VMware Fusion (which is much better than Parallels in my opinion) + Windows XP + SQL Server Management Studio.
I've used Eclipse with the Quantum-DB plugins for that purpose since I was already using Eclipse anyway.
Ed: phpMyAdmin is for MySQL, but the asker needs something for Microsoft SQL Server.
Most solutions that I found involve using an ODBC Driver and then whatever client application you use. For example, Gorilla SQL claims to be able to do that, even though the project seems abandoned.
Most good solutions are either using Remote Desktop or VMware/Parallels.
Try CoRD and modify what you want directly from the server.
It's open source.
http://cord.sourceforge.net/
For MySQL, there is Querious and Sequel Pro. The former costs US$25, and the latter is free. You can find a comparison of them here, and a list of some other Mac OS X MySQL clients here.
Steve
Since there currently isn't a MS SQL client for Mac OS X, I would, as Modesty has suggested, use Remote Desktop for the Mac.