Navicat系列数据库管理工具简介

Navicat™ is a fast, reliable and affordable Database Administration tool purpose-built for simplifying database management and reducing administration costs. Designed to meet the needs of database administrators, developers, and small and medium businesses, Navicat is built with an intuitive GUI which lets you create, organize, access and share information in a secure and easy way.

 

Navicat is well-known, trusted, and used everyday around the world by global enterprises, government agencies and educational institutions. Since early 2001, Navicat has been downloaded over 2,000,000 times worldwide and has got a customer base of over 50,000 users. Currently more than 100 of Global Fortune 500 companies are using Navicat.

Navicat is now available in 7 languages and is recognized as the Most Popular MySQL front end GUI.

It’s available for MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL for local or remote database administration and development.

 

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 Navicat Oracle, MySQL Admin Tool - the World's Best Oracle Manager, MySQL GUI & PostgreSQL GUI for Windows, Linux & Mac OS X !

 

Support Access to MySQL, Excel to MySQL, MySQL editor, MySQL administrator, MySQL frontend, MySQL manager, phpmyadmin, MySQL management, MySQL administration, MySQL front, MySQL for Toad, MySQL query builder, MySQL download, MySQL migration, MySQL control centre, MySQL client and MySQL report builder！

 

详情参见http://www.navicat.com/

 

可以下载其30天试用版本，界面直观，很容易上手。

 

如果是使用Navicat for Oracle，可以使用无需安装的Oracle Instant Client作为Oracle客户端，该软件由Oracle官方提供，可以自由下载。

关于Oracle Instant Client参见http://blog.youkuaiyun.com/svnLight/archive/2009/08/08/4424575.aspx。

 

安装好Navicat for Oracle之后，启动Navicat，选择ToolsàOptions，打开Options对话框，从左侧列表中选择OCI，配置OCI和SQL*Plus的绝对路径，分别指到d:/Oracle/instantclient_11_1(以实际的解压缩目录为准)目录中选择即可。