Sid wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] GUI for MySQL Server' on Sun, Aug 01 at 04:16:
peter Nikolic wrote:
Someone suggested phpMyAdmin, great! It brings up a nice screen. As a simple exercise, you create a database and table, again great! Now you want to enter data into the fields, CHECKMATE!
What? Click "insert" and up comes a page with text boxes that you put the data into. PHPMyAdmin isn't exactly a tool that any uninformed person can use, but entering data into a database is *not* one of the things it makes difficult. Actually, the query builder is pretty easy, too. You can't add pretty graphics to the background, but otherwise it's not difficult to use at all. It's a little hard to set up if you don't read the manual, but there again, learning is good... The newer versions can do *lots* of cool stuff.
Funnily enough, you can more easily manipulate the database from the command line, but if you are a very occasional user, you have to go back and relearn the stuff you learned months ago as none of it is intuitive.
Go to google. Type in what you're trying to do. Click the first few links. Maybe stick "site:mysql.com" in your query somewhere. If you're only doing it once every few months, that's not that big of a deal. :)
It's like having to manually set the mixture, the timing, points gap and other stuff in order to get your engine running, hard luck if you left the manual and tools back at home.
Next time, just remember that the mixture screws are usually backed about 1.5 turns from bottomed out as a starting point, and you usually want around 8-10 degrees initial advance, with maybe 30 or so total. Throw that points ignition away and get a modern elecronic replacement - costs about $30 US and is much less of a hassle than remembering a .065" point gap (setting dwell is more of a pain). ;) --Danny