[CLUE-Tech] MySQL question.
Kevin Cullis
kevincu at orci.com
Mon Jun 18 14:04:24 MDT 2001
Hi all,
I'm trying to get some people to try MySQL and other good software and
below is just one comment. This friend is a BIG database guru and so he
has some things he normally does that maybe MySQL may not be so readily
available to him. Any suggestions?
Kevin
>
> Kevin,
>
> I've downloaded MySQL and taken a look at it. I'm not sure what I was
> remembering as the low-end database engine from Sybase, but this is not
> it. This is "free" software. It's not intuitively obvious to me how
> to build the tables in a GUI tool with MySQL...are you aware of how this
> is done? Also, what form-based tools are available for this? I'm
> thinking of both form-based input and probably form-based report builders.
> The former I see as much more important at the moment than the latter.
> If you've looked at my proposal, you will see that even for something
> as straight-forward as the "People" information, there are several tables
> involved in storage of the information. These tables are joined together
> to put together a picture of each person's information. This is most
> easily done if there is a form with a query behind it that is joining
> all of the necessary tables. If this is not done, there is too much
> chance of a person making a mistake updating all of the join columns
> between tables.
>
> If there is no tools like this at the moment for MySQL, I would suggest
> going with something that has them, then migrating at a later date.
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