I found the pre-7.0 versions of Navicat (on Windows) to be the most bug-ridden commercial software I've ever used. I'm not going to list all my complaints here, but suffice it to say that it was like a bad alpha build until v7.0 was released. What's more, after being initially helpful, or at least honest and admitting to bugs and glitches, Navicat support didn't respond to two of my support requests (about further buggy behaviour), something which left a further bad taste. Having said all this, post 7.0 versions are much improved it seems (again, on Windows). Yes, I stuck with it because the 'competition' seemed little better. Now that it has settled down I find it to be a very useful application -- for me, worth the money. It certainly slaps a more relaxed face on MySQL and has some genuinely useful functionality wrapped up in simple commands (such as the database backup and data transfer). Not sure to what extent the Win32 version is comparable to the Mac version in terms of reliability, but anyway, for what it's worth...
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