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MySQL GUI Tools 5.0-r1b (Mac OS X)

Almost impossible to use  

I had heard great things of MySQL Administrator and the Aqua interface looks great, but when I actually tried to use it for some serious work it was ERROR, ERROR, CRASH, CRASH. It took me five tries and as many crashes to create one-and-a-half table (I gave up halfway the second one). Tip: don't try to set a primary key when you create table. Create the table first (with at least one field in it), then add your fields one by one (in case it crashes again). Don't make a mistake setting the datatype because trying to change a field from an int to tinytext later will result in nothing but crashes. Oh, and check out the catch-22. When you create a user and fill out more than just the user name and the password, you can't save the user with specifiying the host first. Only when you then try to specify the host, you're told to first save the user. Crash! [alert admin]

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Tuesday, August 22 2006 @ 01:47 AM PDT

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