[CLUE-Tech] [Fwd: MySQL]

[Kevin Cullis]

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.