Comments on: The Different Faces of MySQL

By: Alex Kuk

Alex Kuk — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000

For more than a year I use Mysql Data Manager (from cgiscriptshop.com) to support our DB directly on the web site. I do not believe any other interface can compete with it. Nice looking and feature rich. No bug I’ve seen so far. Backup creator is amazing

By: Shab

Shab — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:28:00 +0000

I’ve used MySQL Query Browser, MySQL Administrator and phpMyAdmin, and none of them seem to have proper support for foreign keys. Is it too much to ask to be presented with a drop-down list? Do any of the other listed programs allow this functionality? I know phpMyAdmin has a really sucky hacked way of doing it, but I’m not interested in that.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 01:31:00 +0000

It would be good if people could state when they list an app if it’s free or not - as I don’t do MySQL for hours every single day I’m still sticking with free stuff if possible :)

Tijs: may not be much help to you on the Mac, but I use the free DBDesigner from FabForce [1] to design my databases. The guys developing it were signed on by MySQL and are supposed to be releasing a version under the MySQL brand eventually… they’ve got side tracked on Administrator and Query Browser so far.

By: Shantanu Oak

Shantanu Oak — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:12:00 +0000

Worth mentioning…

MyDB Studio http://www.mydb-studio.com/

Toad for MySQL http://www.quest.com/mysql/

phpFlashMyAdmin http://www.tufat.com/script7.htm

I personally use MySQL Data Manager.

By: bill weaver

bill weaver — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:56:00 +0000

I’ve used the MySQL command line, phpMyAdmin, MySQL Control Center, and MySQL Administrator. They’re all useful, but for remote hosted databases I find phpMyAdmin does the job just fine and is free (or at least included with most hosting plans).

Thanks for the article, though. It gives me motivation to try some of the others you mentioned.

By: Chris Campbell

Chris Campbell — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 22:50:00 +0000

“with a little bit of MS Access sometimes for quick and dirty…”
I knew I’m not the only one out there!

By: creeront

creeront — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 22:27:00 +0000

I can’t condonse using MySQL it’s unreliable. Just check the huge slashdot post about MySQL problems. PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Oracle are the only databases I will ever really consider using.

By: Ryan Campbell

Ryan Campbell — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 19:13:00 +0000

Aqua Data Studio looks tempting because of all of the different database support. I’m gonna give it a good look.

I hear ya Greg - backing up is something that you can never have enough of, so I’ll take any help I can get from a GUI.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 16:45:00 +0000

Thanks for this Ryan, I’d not come across Navicat before and it is indeed very good, and as you say, very responsive. I may even do more frequent backups of my databases now thanks to this!

Cheers, Greg.

By: Gerard McGarry

Gerard McGarry — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 13:41:00 +0000

I use the MysQL Administrator, although previous versions have been buggy. I’ve used phpMyAdmin on a few web-based packages, though.

I wasn’t aware there were so many third-party programs out there, though. Thanks Ryan!