Re: FN-FORUM: MySQL Newbie Q

date posted 31st January 2007 10:40



Craig wrote:
> I’m having to install MySQL to take over some work. I’ve downloaded and
> installed MySQL 5.0. The MySQL web site is awful and not helpful. Can
> anyone tell me what they use as a front end GUI to manage this DBM? It
> seems there isn’t one provided and you have to use a 3rd party’s app. Does
> anyone have a favourite and could tell me where to get it from?
>
>
I use SQLyog ( from http://www.webyog.com/ ) but they are much of a
likeness. You're going to need to know SQL to work with MySQL at all
really, which is fine; for the majority of tasks it is pretty easy to
work with. The MySQL documentation on their site (also can be downloaded
as normal help documentation, iirc) is also very useful when you're
trying to remember the differences between different dialects or work
out why a given query isn't working out as expected.

-ben