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Eric Blanchette
Eric Blanchette

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I Hated Working With SQL So I Built My Own MySQL GUI

SQL was always a pain for me. Not the concepts, the actual day to day work. Switching between tools, writing the same boilerplate, trying to visualize schemas in my head. It slowed me down constantly.
So I spent 2 months building something better.

What It Does
Free My Query is a desktop MySQL GUI for Windows.

ER diagrams: connect to a schema and see your tables and relationships laid out visually. Clickable, live, no setup.
No-code SQL: insert, update, delete, query through the GUI. No writing SQL by hand.
Java code generation: point it at your user table, get Java login and authentication functions back. Done.
SSH tunneling (coming in newer version): connect to remote MySQL instances. It just works.

Why I Built It
Workbench is bloated. DBeaver is fine but it's not built around how I work. I wanted one tool that handled everything without getting in the way.
Two months later, here it is. It's free.

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