On 30 Oct 2007 at 14:27, Trevor Talbot wrote: > To help the conversation along a bit, phpMyAdmin is a web-based > administrative and design interface for MySQL. I don't use it so I > don't know exactly what kind of searching the OP is looking for > either, but at least we know the type of tool :)
Just so -- I'm sorry about the confusion [I'd assumed, incorrectly, that my mention of phpMyAdmin would clarify what I was talking about]. Indeed: you can do *everything* from phpMyAdmin. Rename tables, add/delete columns, change column types [and names, of course], construct SQL statements graphically, etc, etc. The particular thing I was referring to was the search facility: you get a GUI presentation of the columns of the table and indicate which ones, and which search values, you care about and you get what we would call a 'view' of *just* those rows that match [so unlike from the command line, you don't even need to get a WHERE clause that matches _exactly_ -- if it just hits a few you just click the 'edit' icon on the one [or more] that you really care about]. I can't remember the last time I needed to do *anything* in terms of managing/editing/etc a MySQL database that required that I fire up the command line interface. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
