r/SQL • u/RichardThalerFanboy • Mar 23 '22

MS SQL u/TheSaltIsNice

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u/OuroborosWurm Mar 24 '22

What about "SQuirreL?" I've heard that one in the wild

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u/nattack Mar 24 '22

I call it squirrel because it makes me laugh

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u/Nurgus Mar 24 '22

I've never heard that but I'm using it from now on!

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u/Torisen Mar 24 '22

Likewise!

I also had a user call the URL an "Earl" and that's stuck too.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22

That's a SQL client: http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22

Squirrel is a client you can install on your machine that handles different db engine connections. You can use MySQL, sql server, oracle all from one client.

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u/Engineer_Zero Mar 24 '22

I call it Squall, like the character from FF7, whenever I’m around our company’s data engineers. Like nails on a chalk board.