Thinking of building a query browser

fez · 16 Feb 2010 at 10:29

Right,

I dont know if this is a good idea for a side project but I really hate mysqlquery browser and I am equally as disappointed with the new workbench replacement.

I like the way that query browser works in a lot of ways but some things are useless.

Simple things like not being able to edit in the popups properly. The formatting is shocking.

There are other thing but my general question relates to whether other people would be interested in a better version of query browser and what features they would like to see in it.

Dj_Jestar · 16 Feb 2010 at 11:47

Why not just improve the MySQL query browser?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/query-browser/el/mysql-gui-install-source-download.html

fez · 16 Feb 2010 at 12:13

Indeed! Thank you very much for that link. I think I might just do that.

Pho · 16 Feb 2010 at 13:23

The query browser is being phased out in favour of MySQL Workbench so you may want to look at that instead.

fez · 16 Feb 2010 at 13:50

Not a fan of workbench at all and neither are any of the people I work with. Thanks for the heads up though.

Imy · 16 Feb 2010 at 16:29

You might want to give Navicat MySQL a go first. It's leagues ahead of anything that's available for free.

fez · 16 Feb 2010 at 17:26

Yeah I have navicat and think that its brilliant in general. I just like the simplicity of the query browser when doing certain tasks.

Pho · 16 Feb 2010 at 17:38

fez said:
Not a fan of workbench at all and neither are any of the people I work with. Thanks for the heads up though.

Heh I couldn't work it out and so downloaded the query browser instead.

I mainly use SQL Server Management Studio and the MySQL tools just aren't as good.