Anything you could want to know, and more, can be found here:

http://www.mysql.com/downloads/gui-mysqlgui.html

Mike

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>Hello,
>I have the Mysql 3.23.27-beta version installed on my Windows NT PC and I am able to 
>create the database and query from the command line and from a Perl script. I was 
>reading the readme file which comes with the installation about a GUI tool for Win32 
>version. I am typing an excerpt from the file as follows:
> 
>- Most things appears to work nicely on Win32. We use the MySQL benchmarks and 
>crash-me to check each version before releasing it.
>- The distributed default MySQL version is compiled with debugging information so one 
>can get a trace file with: mysqld --debug. After one has verified mysqld works 
>correctly one can switch to the optimized version:
>mysqld-opt or mysql-nt.
>- There are two versions of the 'mysql' command line tool; 'mysql', compiled on 
>native Win32, which offers very limited text editing capabilities and 'mysqlc', 
>compiled with the Cygnus gnu compiler and libraries, which offers readline editing.
>- The default permission is that anyone can use any database that  starts with 'test' 
>from any host and anyone running on the same machine as mysqld is running can take it 
>down.mysqladmin shutdown.
>- Normally one should add a password for the 'root' user and take mysqld down with:
>mysqladmin --user=root --password=your_password shutdown
>In this case one should remove the entry with host='localhost' and user='' from the 
>user database.
>The above is most easly done with:
>shell> mysql mysql
>mysql> delete from user where host='localhost' and user='';
>mysql> quit
>shell> mysqladmin reload
>shell> mysqladmin -u root password your_password
>- This distribution includes the a prototype of a the GUI tool,
>MySQLManager, by James Pereria. This has still some rough edges, but it can serve as 
>a great base for further development!
>- MySQLWinAdmn is a Delphi program, by David B. Mansel, to administrate
>MySQL databases. (Binary only). We are waiting for an updated version that
>will work with the current libmysql.dll
>- This distribution includes two small helper programs: 
>- mysqlshutdown ; If one installs this program on Win95 / Win96 in the 
>Programs/Startup folder then it will automaticly take down the mysqld daemon on reboot
>- mysqlwatch ; If you have problems on NT that MySQL dies (this should only happen 
>when you testing/developing MySQL), this service will automaticly restart the mysqld 
>service if notices that the mysqld server isn't running.
>(Thanks to Irena for the above programs!)
>If you would like to work on the MySQL win32 version, you can find a list of open 
>issues in the reference manual. We are not that used with the Win32 environment so 
>many of the issues may be real easy to solve for someone familiar with 
>Win95/Win98/NT):
>If you want to help us develop MySQL for Win#/NT please mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>to get help to set up your environment! All questions that are specific to the 
>windows version should be posted to this list! Please remember to include all 
>relevant information that may help solve your problem.
>
>I would appreciate if I could get help on the GUI tool and appropriate info on how to 
>acquire the tool.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Manisha Basu.
>
>
>
>
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