peter Nikolic wrote:
On Saturday 31 Jul 2004 23:29, Dalton Silva Ribeiro Filho wrote:
Anyone know a GUI where I can start MySQL Server?
I know MySQL Control Center and MySQL Query Browser but I still haven't found a GUI for MySQL Server - anyone know? Is there a package for it?
Thanks in advance.
Dalton
Any one know when we are going to get Dbase III Plus for Linux we might get a database that is useable then instead of one that is just a pain in the butt ..:-)..
Pete .
Going back many moons there was a web application that was that easy to use, then along came a change (glibc I think) in Linux that broke that app. Next it was yanked rather than upgraded. All the applications I've seen and I have tried many, demand you become a DB administrator familiar with sql language. It seems databases for the common man is not thought politic, so if you just want to enter and retrieve data and you can't structure queries, you're cornered. 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! 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. 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. Going back to DOS, there were databases that were easy to setup and query, with no need to understand the internals. One colleague back then asked me if there was a sharware database I could recommend, I suggested one and he was instantly up and running, I don't think he or I knew what SQL was. I keep looking, but there is nothing available currently that fits that bill, nothing beyond a wrapper to displace the need for some typing. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====