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Active Admin vs db Forge Studio for SQL Server: What are the differences?
What is Active Admin? The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications. Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration.
What is db Forge Studio for SQL Server? SQL Server IDE for Effective Development. It is a powerful IDE for SQL Server management, administration, development, data reporting and analysis. The tool will help SQL developers to manage databases, version-control database changes in popular source control systems, speed up routine tasks, as well, as to make complex database changes.
Active Admin can be classified as a tool in the "Ruby Utilities" category, while db Forge Studio for SQL Server is grouped under "Database Tools".
Some of the features offered by Active Admin are:
- Global Navigation
- Scopes
- Index Styles
On the other hand, db Forge Studio for SQL Server provides the following key features:
- Edit and run queries in a new SQL document
- Build queries in a visual designer
- Run a large script without loading it into memory
Active Admin is an open source tool with 8.57K GitHub stars and 3.03K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Active Admin's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Active Admin
- Customizable6
- Easy Integration3
- Powerful Admin Portal2
Pros of dbForge Studio for SQL Server
- Database Administration31
- Data Export and Data Import31
- Source Control31
- SQL Coding Assistance31
- Index Manager31
- Database Designer31