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SQuirreL SQL Client is a graphical Java program that will allow you to view the structure of a JDBC compliant database, browse the data in tables, issue SQL commands etc, see Introduction. The minimum version of Java supported is 1.6.x as of SQuirreL version 3.0. See the Old Versions page for versions of SQuirreL that will work with older versions of Java. SQuirreL's functionality can be extended through the use of plugins. A short introduction can be found here. To see the change history (including changes not yet released) click here. For a more detailed introduction see the English or German of our paper on SQuirreL. Susan Cline graciously took the time to document the steps she followed to setup an Apache Derby database from scratch and use the SQuirreL SQL Client to explore it. Quite some time ago Kulvir Singh Bhogal wrote a great tutorial on SQuirreL and published it at the IBM developerWorks site. He has kindly allowed us to mirror it locally. The tutorial is not really up to date but especially for doing the first steps it is still of help. SQuirrel was originally released under the GNU General Public License. Since version 1.1beta2 it has been released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
The nuBuilder platform is a database development tool where all forms, reports, company data and PHP/JavaScript code is stored in MySQL and displayed dynamically. At nuSoftware we created nuBuilder so that we could produce customized web-based applications faster than it takes to write applications from scratch. Our nuBuilder development tool has been so useful to us that we have now decided to release nuBuilder under the GPLv3 Open Source licence model. Enterprise level software that you can download and use for free. nuBuilder is a database development tool similar to Microsoft Access® - except that it runs completely in a web browser.