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by reaperducer 1064 days ago
My chooosen database explorer is Dbeaver

I just checked it out, and it looks promising.

Con: There are too many licensing options. I'm not even sure which one I would need.

Pro: They'll send out an invoice, like a real company. I work for a billion-dollar healthcare company, and if your company only takes PayPal, or Venmo, or something else that makes it look like two guys in a basement, it'll never get through our purchase approval process. Big companies do business with other big companies. Startups have to learn to interface with businesses on a business level if they ever want to grow out of being a startup.

2 comments

Start with the Community Edition and see where it takes you.
As if two guys in a basement couldn't send out an invoice
The parent isn't saying that they couldn't. They are saying that they shouldn't advertise their two-guy-ness in the financial parts of their company.