From: Dusan Spisak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Here is my question: > Is it possible to use MySQL in the similar way to Access? > Without any servers and administration and clients and > controlcenter...? I don't need any network at all, I just > would like to create and run some small database for home > use. Is it possible in MySQL? And, it seems, there is no user > interface in MySQL at all. Am I right?
MySQL is a database server. However, Access is, too. It's just masked by Microsoft and bundled into a nice GUI (graphical user interface, if you're not familiar with the term) package. It's perfectly acceptable to install the MySQL server locally and only use it locally. It doesn't need to be accessible from the outside. There's a companion client for the server, but it's pretty bare-bones command-line stuff. If you're looking for any sort of GUI, you'll need a webserver installed locally as well. Any GUI I've seen for MySQL runs as a web application, usually written in PHP. As someone said before, I can highly recommend taking on the learning curve for MySQL. It's actually much easier than it may seem -- one of those "easy to learn, a lifetime to master" things. However, if you're turned off by having to either work on the command-line console or run a local webserver to use a GUI, I can't say that MySQL is necessarily what you're looking for. Good luck in your decision, though. -- Mike Johnson Web Developer Smarter Living, Inc. phone (617) 886-5539 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
