Re: gui-tool?

Hey Sam,

> I have a new CentOS 5.2 installation with MySQL 5.1 and Gui- 
> Tools5.1. I have tried to setup a test table using Gui-Tools. It  
> seems that the Gui-Tools documentation is too little and the screen  
> shots do not match with the written documentation. This leaves me  
> with the following choices:
>
> 1. Consult MySQL 5.1 documentation and setup table manually (it is  
> difficult because this is my first encounter with MySQL;
> 2. Look for other documentation/samples/tutorials for Gui-Tools! For  
> this recommendation I need some direction pointing me towards these  
> documents/samples/tutorials;
> 3. Try Navicat (except I have no money to spend).
> 4. Try PostgreSQL & hope that they have better GUI tools.

First, you should be aware that working with databases, regardless of  
which RDBMS or tool you use, is never trivial. You must know what you  
are doing. So it is essential to at least read a few basic  
introduction documents to know the most basic terms and processes. The  
online documentation for the GUI tools is not very extensive, that's  
true, but it covers everything necessary to get you going, provided  
you know what it is talking about.

What I wonder is which tool you actually tried. Both, MySQL  
Administrator as well as MySQL Query Browser allow to create tables  
(and other schema objects). The used editor is the same in both tools,  
so you don't have to learn two different ones. What's nice about QB is  
that you can easily take any of the examples given in the main  
documentation for the MySQL server and run it in the query area (the  
smaller SQL edit control which comes up by default). This way you can  
easily create a table within a couple of seconds. You could start  
here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/create-table.html.

Mike
--
Mike Lischke, Senior Software Engineer
Database Group, Developer Tools
Sun Microsystems Inc., www.sun.com


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