Sequel Pro is the best desktop app I have used to manage MySQL databases by far. I haven't had a Mac in years and haven't found anything near as good on Windows or Linux.
- the bling in TP is too much for me. I don’t want or need an overly shiny DBA tool.
- I’ve memorized the keyboard shortcuts in Sequel Pro.
- Sequel Pro seems to handle large imports/exports of .sql files better. I think it’s because Sequel chunks dumps into multiple insert statements while TP does not.
Overall, I’m just lazy and don’t want to learn a new tool that offers the same features.
Fair. I switched from MySQL Workbench to Sequel Pro because Workbench didn't support Percona TokuDB, but I missed safe mode (warn before sending queries other than SELECT/EXPLAIN, by having edit/commit be separate steps). So when TablePlus had it, I switched immediately.
Sequel Pro crashes every time you close it (supposedly 1.2 fixes this, but it's still not released yet), and doesn't support asking for confirmation before committing changes (so a typo can accidentally make an unintended change).
I've switched to TablePlus, which is also Mac native and seems better in every way: https://tableplus.com/
(It even has a dark mode!)
(But on the other hand, Sequel Pro is open-source and TablePlus isn't, which might also affect your decision.)
I've been using it for the last few weeks and while I do have some nitpicks, I like it! It crashes every now and then when I close a tab and I wish that when manually adding a new row I could select the value of a foreign key from a dropdown instead of entering it manually. But both get in my way rarely enough that I still like it
