I ended up going out yesterday and getting a mac laptop and so far
I'm pretty happy with it. I've already done a little bit of billable
work with it using Dreamweaver so that's nice.
It's funny Paul that you mentioned Aqua Data Studio having some
trouble when the user only having access to one database because
that's the exact thing I found out this afternoon and it was nice for
you to say it to verify my problems. I can connect to our server and
create tables and procedures fine (with a user that has all privs),
but I couldn't do that with this other server where I have more
limited priviledges.
I think for now I'm going to just use a remote desktop type thing to
our server and use the Enterprise Manager there to do some things I
need to with that database immediately.
I'm not used to using SQL to create tables and columns so I think
I'll learn that stuff using something like SQL Grinder or whatever on
something that I don't have to worry about screwing up!
Also re:IDEs I think it is funny how there is an insane number of
text editors and interfaces for doing coding and development and it
seems like there's nothing that anyone is totally happy with (unless
they wrote it themselves or something but that's just silly). I
suppose I'll use Dreamweaver for now even though I pretty much only
use it for text editing and transferring files.
Anyway, thanks again for your input!
-Aaron
On Jun 24, 2005, at 2:29 PM, Paul Marcotte wrote:
Hi Demetrius,
I made the switch about a year ago and have tried just about
everything out there for connecting to SQL Server from my mac.
Here are some of my findings...
- Aqua Data Studio was buggy when connect to a server where my user
privs were for only one database on the server. I did like the
'Enterprise Manager' look and feel though. So if you are going to
connect to the db as sa or some other superuser with privs to all
databases, you should evaluate Aqua Data Studio.
- I'm currently evaluating SQL Grinder and it is good enough to
work with, but requires some getting used to. When you connect it
is like connecting with the Query Analyzer. You can then view the
schema. Neither product has the same GUI tools you'll find in
Enterprise Manger, so if you need to add FKs, Indexes, etc. Be
prepared to run SQL commands instead of using gui...
On another note, if you are also looking for an IDE on Mac, you'll
be hard pressed to find one that does it all. I worked almost
exclusively in Dreamweaver using code view. The workspace is
rather annoying in that all open files are in a separate window.
Not tabbed. I've tried Eclipse, which is very promising, but slow
on my powerbook G4 with 1Gig of RAM. One other text editor I'm
working with at the moment is TextMate. TM is uder heady
development at the moment, but has some cool features.
In all, I'm glad I made the switch, because it really opened doors
for areas of web development that I hadn't tried (PHP, MySQL,
Postgresql), but it wasn't without some growing pains.
Good luck!
Paul Marcotte
Fancy Bread Multimedia
2085 East 12th Ave.
Vancouver, BC V5N2A9
mobile: 604.999.2733
http://www.fancybread.com
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