SQLyog was started as aan undergraduate college project by [http://www.riteshn.com Ritesh Nadhani] when he had to use [[MySQL]] for one of his required course project in [[2001]]. For 2 years, it was developed by him with technical and project management input given by his elder brother Rohit. Rohit later on joined the development team as a full time contributor.<ref>[http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/interviews/rohit-nadhani-webyog.html Interview with Rohit Nadhani], ''MySQL AB'', August 23rd, 2006</ref>
After 8 months of development v0.9 was released for public as a closed source free software. SQLyog was a free software up until v3.0 when it was made a commercial software.
