Sequel Pro Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score9 out of 10

33 Reviews and Ratings

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Business Problems Solved

Sequel Pro has become an indispensable tool for our engineering department, allowing us to design, investigate, query, and manage databases on a daily basis. The intuitive user interface and powerful capabilities of Sequel Pro have made it our MySQL client of choice for administering databases. It effectively solves the business problem of providing a GUI-based client for managing and administering MySQL databases, which is preferred over terminal or web-based solutions.

Developers widely use Sequel Pro for accessing MySQL and alternatives like MariaDB, providing a more efficient and convenient way to perform basic to advanced tasks and queries. It simplifies database maintenance by making it easier to correct data errors in MySQL tables. We rely on Sequel Pro for querying data from test QA databases and testing certain elements when creating new features, ensuring data accuracy and correctness. Additionally, it serves as a versatile tool for building reports, queries, and basic SQL Server management across our engineering and product departments.

Sequel Pro acts as a database IDE, allowing us to create, update, delete, and view table schemas, contributing to robust and secure software development. The software is widely used as a database management interface by engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders who need easy access to peek into databases and view tables and database schemas. Users also rely on Sequel Pro for data analysis. By pulling custom data sets, they gain insights on products, customers, sales, and more. Furthermore, the marketing department uses the software to connect to the cloud database built on our Magento eCommerce platform and write custom SQL syntax. Overall, Sequel Pro has proven to be an essential tool that enhances productivity and efficiency in managing databases.

Sequel Pro Reviews

3 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesInformation Technology & Services1Marketing & Advertising2

Great Database IDE Toolkit

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 18, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sequel Pro is being used by our organization as a database IDE. My department uses it to create, update, delete and view the table schemas. It helps me to build the software robust and secure.

Pros

Ability to define the schemas and run the queries.
Gives a great UI to work with and the ability to see the application content data in an integrated manner and filter them as per our needs.

Cons

User Interface can be made better and appealing.
It can be made smarter by suggestion of auto completion of queries.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's a great tool when building the software, the ability to add SQL and No-SQL databases. Very convenient to write the queries and generate the filtered data we require. Gives the ability to export, import databases of various formats and generate reports from them.

It might not be suitable if you want the data to be seen in a visualized manner.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Information Technology and Services company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Free, powerful and easy to use database management tool

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 13, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sequel Pro is used by our developers for accessing MySQL and alternatives like MariaDB. We work with many different clients and websites so having a GUI application that stores credentials for this database but also provides the ability to perform basic to advanced tasks and queries has proven far more efficient than using the terminal or web-based applications like PhpMyAdmin.

Pros

Searching and filtering
Connections over SSH
Raw SQL when you need it
Database and table management
User management, credentials and roles

Cons

Some queries can be slow and fail to stop
Support for different types of database structures like SQLite or NoSQL would be awesome

Likelihood to Recommend

I always suggest Sequel Pro for accessing databases. It's free, secure and easy to use. Because it's an application that lives on your machine and possesses the ability to connect to databases over SSH it means we don't have to expose web-based database management applications or expose the database port publicly on the server. The only time Sequel Pro is not an option is if the database is not MySQL or an equivalent.

Joey Yax

Web Developer in Engineering at Grady Britton (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Sequel Pro: Everything you need in a Mac MySQL interface

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 8, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Sequel Pro is almost indispensable in our organization. It strikes the perfect balance of intuitive UX and powerful capabilities. We use it internally to query from several databases containing ad-performance data. It is useful for everything from simple exploratory data work to query optimization for BI visualization tools. Sequel Pro's ability to view/create/change database structure and relations make dealing with API or data structure changes a breeze.

Pros

A favorite Sequel Pro feature is the UI for Table/Database creation. APIs and data structures change often so having an intuitive way to make quick updates is a lifesaver.
Sequel Pro makes it easy to manage and connect to multiple databases with tabbed windows. It's great to have multiple databases open with their specific queries stored and ready to go.
As the database admin for my team I also value the ability to manage users and database privileges. As our teams change in size or different clients and applications need access I can easily create and provision credentials.

Cons

Wish it could handle more database types. As of now it can't connect to disparate datasources.
Wish it could autoformat.
Error messages aren't typically verbose enough to really debug a query without resorting to EXPLAIN queries.

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazing for ad-hoc requests and simple aggregation.
Great for writing, troubleshooting and optimizing queries for BI visualization tools and preprocessing data for more advanced analysis in Python or R data environments.
Amazing for quick schema/structure changes.
Not a visual query editor which necessitates knowledge of MySQL syntax.
Not for the code-averse.

Kyle Randolph

Analyst in Social Media at VaynerMedia (Marketing and Advertising, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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