WinSQL 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

WinSQL

4.4

(29)

Pricing

Starting at $99.00 per year

About WinSQL

WinSQL is a database management solution that helps businesses streamline operations related to data migration, schema comparisons, task scheduling, offline backups and more on a centralized platform. It enables employees to use a drag-and-drop interface to handle data import and export processes in multiple file formats.

WinSQL comes with WYSIWYG SQL wizards, which let data analysts manage code scripting operations using syntax highlighting, auto-code completion and built-in hotkeys, among other tools. The designing tools enable staff members to draw E/R diagrams, view relationships among tables and pull scripts for triggers and stored procedures. The administrative dashboard enables users to update statistics, handle data backups, create new users and generate database-specific DDL. Additionally, it allows users to access the query history lists in order to view and execute previously run queries.

WinSQL facilitates integration with Microsoft Excel. It is available for free and on a perpetual license and support is extended via phone, email, documentation and public discussion forum.

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WinSQL Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $99.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$99.00

per year

No plan information available

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WinSQL Features

Popular features found in Database
Backup and Recovery
Database Conversion
Data Connectors
Data Migration
Data Replication
Data Virtualization
Multiple Programming Languages Supported
Performance Analysis
Secure Data Storage
More features of WinSQL
Abbreviation Detection
Dashboard
Database Support
Data Capture and Transfer
Data Dictionary Management
Data Discovery
Data Quality Control
Data Retrieval
Data Storage Management
Data Visualization
Predictive Analytics
Relational Database Management
Self-service Analytics

WinSQL User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

55%

41%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.6

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.3

Functionality

4.2

Have you used WinSQL and would like to share your experience with others?

Deepak M.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2020

Handy and light weight database administration tool

I started using winsql so as to connect multiple databases like oracle and db2.I required to configure odbc in order to make it work. Overall it was satisfactory to work on it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

1. Easy to connect to different databases like db2, oracle etc. 2. Easy to get reports and extracts out of databases. 3.Light-weight application

Cons:

1. Connection through IP address is not possible. 2 .It is not available for Mac OS 3. Sometimes it hangs and closes automatically during heavy queries.

Danny S.

Verified reviewer

Accounting

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed February 2019

Awesome Database Tool

I have been using WinSQL for many years, and unlike people, it just gets better with age. I'm a big believer in the product, and it has always performed very well regardless of which DB I'm using. It is a great tool for prototyping, development and production platforms. It has way more features than any of the free DB-specific browser/query tools, and now it even has its own data specific plug-in ODBC drivers. As a developer, having one tool to master and use against a variety of DB products, has saved me many hours over the years that I could put toward other phases of development instead of spending time on DB schema, query, stored procedure building and other issues. As an end-user tool, I have never found anything users liked better than WinSQL. Because of its ease of use, it takes the fear of complexity out of learning to use a query and reporting tool.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Among the many great features of WinSQL, the one that stands out the most is it ease of use. From setting up a DSN to creating and executing a query, WinSQL makes it so easy that I have been able to quickly train non-IT users how to run their own queries and reports. By enabling users to do so much with the tool, it really reduces the requests and workload for IT. Its ease of use also means new developers have a tool they can use to quickly check DB results from running their development programs in a test mode, or to quickly populate a table with test data to use for testing their program's DB I/O, either using WinSQL's Test Data Generation Wizard, or simply writing a quick INSERT group of records, and doing it manually. It is such a versatile tool with so many great features, it is hard to say which is my favorite. It all depends on what I'm doing in my development work, then whatever WinSQL feature I'm using, becomes my favorite. That is what makes it such an awesome database tool, its breadth of features!

Cons:

About the only thing I don't find very useful is the Task Scheduler. That is only because I have always used a different scheduler. So it isn't that I like it the least, it is just the feature I use the least. I can't think of anything I don't like about the tool.

John G.

Verified reviewer

Broadcast Media

10000+ employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Reviewed February 2019

WinSQL is now banned on SAP IQ

It’s a shame we had to ban it. Although very slow to start on a large Datawarehouse, it had a good user interface and searching for objects was better than the tools provided by SAP.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use, good catalogue of objects, but this has caused massive problems

Cons:

WinSQL on SAP IQ multiplex with 60,000 objects has been causing significant degradation in performance. The background refresh even caused outages on busy days. Since it was banned, we have seen performance gains and stability of the IQ service has improved.

Nathaniel M.

Verified reviewer

Utilities

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed February 2019

WinSQL is a great tool for developing web tools

During the 30 day trial, I was able to use the full version and I could do pretty much anything I needed to, including being able to explore the server stored procedures and find logic problems our vendor had introduced when programming the database. Currently, I still use it daily to pull information and compile reports and am very satisfied with it's performance.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I like that WinSQL has all the features needed to find information in most databases even if using the free version. I use it to connect to an Informix server while MS SQL server manager will not.

Cons:

The restriction to a single server connection in the free version is an annoyance, but I understand it's incentive to purchase the full version.

Shane D.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed February 2019

Excellent, flexible SQL query tool

This is my go-to SQL query tool, and has been for many years. It does what it says. I do wish there were some better options for interface colors or theming, but it works well without that.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Very easy to setup to and use just about any database connections you’d need.

Cons:

The interface looks a bit dated. If there are any auto-formatting features for sql code I haven’t found them. A mini-map for larger queries would also be helpful.

Vendor Response

Auto-formatting feature will be available in the upcoming version 12.

Replied March 2019

Chris V.

Verified reviewer

Warehousing

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed February 2019

WinSQL the way to pull your data

Generally use it for adhoc data collection and the base to create user refresh able excel sheets.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I have medium level SQL skills. WinSQL is easy to use with no extra stuff. WinSQL never slows me down. I like the different tabs and the ability to keep the query on the session.

Cons:

Hard to export large data sets (over 200k records)

Vendor Response

Chris, WinSQL should be able to export over 200K records. Could you please contact our support so we can investigate why is it not letting you do that.

Replied March 2019

Leon B.

Verified reviewer

Semiconductors

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed February 2019

Queries with WinSQL

We have to constantly extract information form our DB2 databases. WinSQL is a fantastic tool to do so.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The lite version is very easy to install and easy to use and it's free!

Cons:

With the new version, the software ask us frequently to reconnect. Secondly, maybe it's because I don't know how to do it but I'm not able to change the font size. I would also like to be able to remove the yellow area that pops up when you run a request.

Patrick H.

Verified reviewer

Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2019

Why did I using MySQL

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Connection to each ODBC databases. Possibility to have query results in full page, in table or in text (for multiple select)

Cons:

Since last version, it's impossible to do a search on a text result. Impossible to do a direct connection with a database (with IP adress)

Vendor Response

You should be able to connect to a database using just the host IP. That information is stored in the ODBC DSN. Contact our support if you need further help regarding this.

Replied March 2019

Kevin R.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed December 2019

Great tool for quick, on-the-fly analysis

Great tool for its usage as a quick and dirty tool for building and formatting queries on the fly.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to connect to multiple database platforms; color coding and formatting are very helpful; logging history

Cons:

Sometimes it pings the database to pull all tables to help retrieve a table or column name-- can take a while and slow things down; script DDL does not always work

Reasons for choosing WinSQL

Mainly price and basic features needed

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2019

A simple SQL editor

I have used WinSQL for finding and fixing data errors in ERP systems: eg: Make items with no BOMs, BOMs where components are missing from item master etc.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use, and bundled ODBC drivers mean WinSQL is the easiest way to extract data from virtually any database.

Cons:

The Free "Lite" version is missing some useful features, but that is what one would expect.

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