

I’ve downloaded OSS to play with it, and included its install steps here so you can do the same. This is a pain if you are trying to re-engineer an existing database, or create one from scratch. The downside to the OOS version is that it won’t connect directly to your Server and Database – you must do so via script imports and exports. The OSS version (the free download version) will let you do that, sort of. MySQL Workbench: This is a tool to build and update your databases via a graphical interface. I’m interested in developing my web site, not in being a “hard core” database administrator. I find that the Administrator application is more user friendly and it saves on a lot of typographical, and other such swearing under the breath, errors. MySQL Administrator: All of the items that you can do with My SQL‘s GUI Administration can pretty much be done via command line options, or phpMyAdmin, and so forth. See TechNote: 0-WordPress Install Sequence On XP Pro plus Reference Links TechNote 4 in the WordPress installation and setup series reviews the procedures for setting up 5.x of MySQL Administrator and Workbench, and also touches on the MySQL Migration Toolkit.
