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Ben Sinclair • Edited

I pay for indie games. Also for a couple of services.

I convinced my company that TablePlus was a worthwhile purchase because of the problems with Sequel Pro and MySQL Workbench, so though technically I don't pay for it, we do.

Honestly, for my cases, there's not much software that doesn't already have a free equivalent that's better than the proprietary ones.

Oh, the last thing I paid for was by using the "buy me a coffee thing" for someone who made a dark skin for Google Play Music.

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Alex Kluew

i hope your coworkers appreciate TablePlus! Such wonderful software.

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Ben Sinclair

It's pretty good. What my boss appreciates most is being able to "lock" connections so you can't commit changes to databases on other people's servers without unlocking them first.
We end up being given accounts on legacy live systems that have most permissions, so that could be a Bad Thing unless we were to set up local replica databases and use them instead. This means we can quickly log into someone else's host and do a bit of forensics.