I have been watching this thread for a while now and I cannot believe that there
are users of MYSQL out there that are not aware of all the GUI clients out
there.

I have been using MYSQL for 3 years now and the only time I need to use the
command line is when I do an upgrade.

What is the problem with that?

Maybe as one person suggested, MYSQL is now starting to be used by those that
have not been around for long and cannot come to grips with a simple concept of
using a little black interface with nothing more than a flashing cursor. That
from my perception would suggest that MYSQL is definately developing a wider
audience other than the serious computer junkie (which I guess is the category I
probably fall into).

And as someone else suggests, when you have finished with the toys like Access,
Superbase, both of which I have used extensively then you can get serious and
use a real database like MYSQL, all I requires is a little upgrade in ones
concept of what a database is and what it should do.

Well that is my 2 cents worth.

Cheers....

Rob

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I have been reading this mail group for some time now, trying to figure out how MySQL is supposed to work. I have been more and more confused with all the coding details that have been used to answer the questions of people who are often as confused as I am.

It seems that it is necessary to use a Command Line Interface. To my mind this is a dinosaur and will seriously handicap the spread and use of this program. The developers need to realise that users are mostly not programmers.

I have been using a database for 13 years, it is Superbase and runs on an Amiga and is very user friendly. I am amazed that MySQL does not match this old system for usability, the Amiga in it's day was ten years ahead of most other systems and MySQL is still using MSDos!!!!!!!!!

I had hoped to set up a database on a PC using the data currently running on the Amiga but as this would be used at various locations around the country and would need to be set up and run by people with very limited computer knowledge, it is not to be. I will have to advise these people to try and obtain an Amiga or perhaps an Amiga clone to run on a PC.

I'm sorry but MySQL does not come any where near the hype for me.

I will now proceed to uninstall MySQL and will unsubscribe from this mail group.

Perhaps if I come back in ten years time?

Regards

Jim McCaughan