Database Workbench started out as a developer tool specifically for InterBase, "InterBase Workbench", initially modeled after the SQL Navigator tool for Oracle Database by Quest Software. During its early years, InterBase became open-source for a short while, and soon after Firebird was created as a fork from the InterBase code base. The main developer of Database Workbench, Martijn Tonies, was closely involved in the early development of Firebird and has been a committee member of the Firebird Foundation. Database Workbench continued to support both database systems, initially through a separate "Firebird Workbench" release. Not long after, the program became interoperational between the different database systems and this initial support for multiple database systems led to the renaming of the product to its current title "Database Workbench" in 2003. It also opened the path to the inclusion of support for more database systems: support for Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL was added in 2003; in 2005, support for Oracle Database and NexusDB was added and SQL Anywhere support followed in 2008. Early 2010, a full Unicode version of Database Workbench was released and version 5 of Database Workbench was released in August 2014. A free version with limited functionality, Data Workbench Lite, based on Data Workbench 4 is also available.
Supported databases and environments
Database Workbench supports the following relational databases: Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Anywhere, Firebird, NexusDB, InterBase, MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL Version 5 of Database Workbench runs on 32-bit or 64 bitWindows platforms. Under Linux, FreeBSD or Mac OS X Database Workbench can operate using Wine.
print database schema, source code, lists of objects or query result sets
It includes several productivity features:
Favorite Databases for easy access to your most used databases
SQL Insight including "Join Completion"
Parameter Insight
Code Templates
Object Templates
Name Templates
Two-way Visual Query Builder
History
Initially created by as InterBase Workbench
Version 1: 2001
Version 1.4: 2002, Firebird Workbench to only work with Firebird. InterBase Workbench works with both Firebird and InterBase.
Version 2: 2003, renamed Database Workbench with modular approach for supported database systems, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle and NexusDB support added.
Version 3: 2007, SQL Anywhere support added.
Version 4: 2010, fully Unicode enabled.
Version 5: 2014, High DPI aware and support for PostgreSQL added.
