Re: gui-tool?

Hey Dave,

> I have to agree with you both.   I use the MySQL Administrator and for
> some things it works okay, but certain functions are definitely
> unstable.   The User Account portion of this tool is particularly  
> evil!

Well, MySQL has a very own model to manage access rights and it is not  
easy to map this into a GUI. It seems sometimes to be illogical in  
workflow, but I haven't seen it crash on my for a very long time (but  
then I almost certainly know this feature too well so that I  
instinctively avoid the pitfalls :-) ).

> If only MySQL would just fix the bugs and add some more features that
> the competition has, then it would be a great tool.

We are on the way, though not as you might expect. The GUI tools as  
such won't be developed further, instead we will merge all their  
functionality into MySQL Workbench. By re-implementing that in WB we  
can fix design flaws and duplicate functionality which has gotten into  
the legacy tools over the years, creating so a really great tool for  
all the tasks a DBA might have today.

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


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