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What MySQL database admin app should I be using?

Asked by richardhenry (4701 points) | asked 3 months ago | 10 responses | “Great Question” (0 points) | Flag as…

I’m using Mac OS X Leopard, but feel free to share for other platforms too. Is there anything better than Navicat available? I would like to be using something desktop-based, not web-based.

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sferik's avatar

I use the MySQL command-line tool. Learn it. Love it.

Stocky's avatar

I was recently at a MySQL user group and like sferik said the MySQL command line tool seemed to be the weapon of choice. Im still very much a novice so I havent used it enough to vouch for it myself. But thats what im focusing on learning.

andrew's avatar

Use the command line. Ask us for help.

You wouldn’t use Dreamweaver, would you?

richardhenry's avatar

Haha okay. I get the message. I’ll be installing and playing with the command line tool then. Do you really find it more efficient than having a GUI interface? Or is it simply the flexibility you enjoy?

Stocky's avatar

I might take you up on some of that help andrew im really interested in learning it

Skyrail's avatar

I’ve always used phpmyadmin just because that’s what I begun with, I don’t do much database admin and I don’t know much SQL for MySQL (or any SQL engine for that matter) but I’d love to learn how to use the command line for MySQL.

cynomyso's avatar

I agree with the CocoaMySQL recommendation. It doesn’t do everything but for day to day data inserts, updates and deletes it works very well. I still use the CLI for more administrative tasks.

chaosrob's avatar

phpMyAdmin isn’t bad, and puts a nice GUI on almost all functions.

ninechars's avatar

Seconded: PHPMyAdmin

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