Todd wrote:
>I come from a microsoft environment and never really had to deal with a
>command line based database before.
>All the documentation for MySQL doesn't make sense to a rookie and is
>frustrating... Anywhere to go where I can feel like I can learn
>something?
Go to your local computer bookstore, or on-line at Amazon, spend USD49.99
and get a copy of "MySQL" by Paul DuBois, published by New Riders, ISBN
0-7357-0921-1. This seems to me to be the widely acknowledged best work on
MySQL, and it covers the Windows 9X/NT versions of MySQL as well.
Personally I regard it as a book to recommend without reservation, and my
copy now looks a little battleworn! I also seem to remember that there are
quite a few excellent web sites with information on MySQL
I don't think that there is anyway to avoid the command line with MySQL,
(I'm guessing that initially install and user config has to be done with
the command line). That said, day to day, there are a veritable swarm of
excellent GUI clients. I'm using DBTOOLS here, not because I think it's the
best, (maybe it is?), but because it's quite small, (v1.0.8 that I've got
is a mere 2.08MB!). It's available at http://dbtools.vila.bol.com.br/
I would recommend that you do try and use the command line, since the MySQL
one is quite good, (command line recall and editing). Further, if you get
the Windows one 'down', then you can admin a Unix version of MySQL with
no/very-little trouble indeed.
Regards
Bob Cross.
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