Hi All,
It ain't free, but there's a lovely client for mysql called navicat
(http://www.navicat.com/) that we've been using. And even though I *can*
do command line queries, gotta say I love pulling lines between tables to
set them up. It's not too expensive and I find that for light to medium
weight stuff it's fun and easy to use.
-t
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
On Jul 30, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Cloutman, David wrote:
Perhaps you should put together some MySQL training materials for
librarians. A webinar, perhaps. I'd love it if my colleagues had those
skills. I don't think there is that much interest, but I could be wrong.
There are at least 101 ways enterprise level database skills could be
put to work in my library. I'm pretty sick of our core technical
solutions being Excel spreadsheets and the occasional Access database.
Blech.
Tell me about it, and besides, basic SQL is not any more difficult than CCL.
SELECT this FROM that WHERE field LIKE "%foo%" Moreover, IMHO, relational
databases are the technological bread & butter of librarianship these days.
Blissful ignorance does the profession little good.
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Eric Lease Morgan
Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
