Since you are reading this blog, there is a high chance that you are a Mac user. And if you are using a Mac, there is a high chance that you are either someone who works on video a lot, a graphics designer or a web developer.

If you are a web developer you might already be familiar with MAMP, and most probably you’re working on MySQL databases. In that case you must already be familiar with PhpMyAdmin to manage your databases.

While PhpMyAdmin works fine as a web based solution to access and manage databases, but sometime I do want a native MacOS X app to work on. This is where Sequel Pro comes in.

Sequel Pro is a fast easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases. Derived form CocoaMySQL, an open-source project.

Maybe some of you are uber-command line experts that manage your MySQL databases through command line, or you already am comfortable with PhpMyAdmin. For me I prefer to work with a native Mac OS X app.

Sequel Pro interface looks and feels just like any other Mac OS X app. Sequel Pro make viewing and modifying tables easy.

It supports MySQL version 5 or older version like MySQL 3 or MySQL 4. It gives you access to MySQL databases locally or on a remote server. It supports concurrent connections, new instance are presented in on a new window.

There is a query panel where you can run your MySQL queries when there are things that the UI can’t do. Supports importing and exporting databeses in SQL or CSV/Tab files and also exporting tables in XML.

Sequel Pro is not yet version 1.0, but it’s pretty stable, and it’s free.