On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:35:42 GMT, Chuck
<skilover_nospam@bluebottle.com> wrote:

>Good Man wrote:
>>
>> GUI tools, it all depends. Some people don't use any at all. Personally,
>> I'm a big fan of Navicat: http://www.navicat.com/
>>
>> Good luck!
>
>I was thinking about the GUI tools on the mysql.com web site.
>Will I need any of them?

Not really.
My favourite 'GUI tools' are a simple ASCII editor and a
generic shell script for testing.
I always start with a 'schema file' which begins with
"DROP DATABASE ...;" and testdata for every table.

While developing, I seldomly edit tables in the database,
because it is generally faster to edit my schema source
and load everything all over again. For a testdatabase
loading the schema and test data typically only takes a
few seconds.
Clicking in a GUI is usually slower.
I only use PHPMyAdmin to browse tables and to test queries
before adding them to the schema as views.
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