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.
I've been tasked with writing a Mac App in xcode 4.3 that can search and display data from a publicly available MS Access Database that's updated regularly. For this reason, I can't just convert the file to a different database platform. I've searched the depths of Google and can't find anyone else attempting such a task.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
You may try to use 3rd party tools that provide connectivity like actualtech one.
http://www.actualtech.com/product_access.php
I personally never tried this one, but it looks promising.
I believe there are no native Microsoft support for other platforms than Windows.
If the database is in an MDB file, you could try using this online MDB to MySQL converter.
You could write a daemon that fetches the latest SQL dump daily or even hourly and stores it in a local SQLite file. Then your client app just needs to query the local file.
I know it's not as convenient as connecting to the database directly, but this is a 'free' solution.
I'm looking for some spatial database features but can't upgrade to SQL Server 2008 at the moment. I've come across this open source mssqlspatial package which would provide most of the features I need however I'm hesitant to deploy it without knowing if it's production ready. I was wondering if anybody out there had deployed this package.
Thanks
Never heard of mssqlspatial, sorry. Have you considered PostGIS though? That'll give you an open source spatial database, and I believe it's quite well regarded. Never used it myself.
This isn't answer...just some additional info.
We just went to SQL Server 2008, but PostGIS would have been my first choice (wasn't my choice). As MarkJ says, it is well regarded.
You might want to checkout SharpmapV2. It's not a spatial database but you've got providers on just about everything including MsSqlSpatial:
http://sharpmapv2.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/SharpMap.Data.Providers/
And I'm seeing the same developers in both repositories (John Diss looks like a busy guy), so I think SharpMapv2 is more current:
http://mssqlspatial.codeplex.com/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx
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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)
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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.