MySQL GUI Tools

Written November 23, 2007 in mysql, webdev

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MySQL has released a suite of GUI tools that rival Microsoft’s offerings for a RDBMS management studio. And bonus: They’re cross-platform.

Unfortunately, they’re building the suite on Windows XP — all of the tools either crash or cause serious problems on OSX and Vista, which are the two platforms I’m working on right now. I haven’t tested it on Linux yet, but considering some of the crash bugs I’ve encountered in the ’stable’ versions on OSX… I don’t have high hopes.

Great tools … and I’m really looking forward to using the Workbench when it gets released in final version … but they’re almost unusable right now on any platform except XP, and I can’t even do that because I have to boot to BootCamp to use XP.

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These GUI tools have been out for at least a couple years, and the Mac version was doing great on Mac OS X 10.4, there’s just some compatibility issues that will have to be worked out with Leopard.

Written by Brian on November 30, 2007 at 3:07pm
My bug-testing was being done on OSX 10.4.10… so it definitely wasn’t a Leopard issue. I will admit that they’re rock solid on WinXP.

Within the first few hours of using MySQL Query Explorer, I had filed 3 crash bugs and had two verified as reproduce-able. I’m working on reproducing the third…

Written by Karl Katzke on November 30, 2007 at 3:16pm
Ditch the mysql gui tools and get navicat. It has far more functionality, is faster, easier than the mysql ab tools. I spent a year of mysql development fighting with the free mysql ab suite as it crashed multiple times per day on both windows and mac osx. The day I got navicat, all that ended. It hasn’t crashed once and is waaaay more functional.

Written by NoMoreMysqlAb on February 21, 2008 at 1:21pm