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MySQL Official GUI Interface

Posted by timothy on from the peeking-at-your-data dept.

ChopsMIDI writes "Announced today at MySQL, is the new GUI for MySQL: The MySQL Administrator. This integrates database management and maintenance into a 'seamless' GUI. 'Easily perform all the command line operations visually including configuring servers, administering users, and dynamically monitoring database health. Other common administrative tasks such as monitoring replication status, backup and restore, and viewing logs can also be performed through the MySQL Administrator graphical console.' This sounds like a pretty sweet tool, but sadly, it's not available for downlodad yet, but it does have some nice screenshots."

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  1. Similar to PgAdmin for Postgres by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Take a look

    There's also a great free front end for Oracle but its name escapes me at the moment. It's from Sweden I think.

  2. Re:Unix support? by Vaevictis666 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Says it will be initially available for Windows and Linux (Sorry Mac users, you'll need to wait).

  3. TORA - the best GPL'd GUI front end bar none by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is here

  4. At the risk of seeming stupid... by drakaan · · Score: 4, Informative
    Has everyone ignored MySQL Control Center (I've been using it for a year or so, now)?

    It looks like Administrator will be a better version (or at least more attractive), but it's not like "Oh, finally!!! a GUI interface for mySQL!!!". Granted, it's still at version 0.9.4 (*note to self: newer version than the one I'm running...have to update), but that's farther along than the currently-nonexistent Administrator.

    Well?

    --
    "Murphy was an optimist" - O'Toole's commentary on Murphy's Law
    1. Re:At the risk of seeming stupid... by OneFix+at+Work · · Score: 5, Informative

      I don't think the plan is to replace Control Center, once you look at the page and screenshots, it looks less like Control Center.

      The big giveaway for this is the fact that I don't see any way of reading table data...as a matter of fact, the more you look at it, Control Center will obvously be used more for database development and data entry, but The MySQL Administrator seems to be just that...more focused towards UNIX Administrators...

  5. Until then... MySQLFront by carrowood · · Score: 3, Informative

    Until then, I'll stick to MySQLFront (slow link). It does a pretty good job for windoze users. I do hope the new GUI is an open-source tool.

  6. Re:If only PostgreSQL had one... by questionlp · · Score: 3, Informative

    Per a previous post, there is and has been one called pgAdmin. It may not be as pretty as the one just announced, but it's cross-platform and does a fairly good job IMNSHO.

  7. Mascon?? by ajayrockrock · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Windows users here at my work swear by Mascon. It's 50 bucks and really cool. Makes my installation of phpMyAdmin pale in comparison. They do make a linux version but it's nowhere near as good as the Win32 version (at least it wasn't last time I looked at it six months ago)

    later,
    ajay

  8. While your waiting... by agwis · · Score: 3, Informative

    I look forward to this being released. I've tried several different gui's for working with MySQL but have not found one that does everything I hoped for. Until it's released, I've found combining Dbvisualizer and phpMyAdmin works.

    It would be really nice to have the features of both all combined in one nice gui...which is what I hope this will be.

    -Pat