Database Front end suggestion

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004, Shawn Tayler wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>
>I have a problem.  I am not at all familiar with perl or PHP or Pythoin, my
>last coding bit was some very simple awk and sed scripts and the QuickBasic
>coding about 20 years ago.  I need to shuffle a large about of data into
>and through a database.  I have both postgresql and mysql operational on a
>box with 300G of LVD SCSI HD space, 1G RAM and, a P4 2.8Ghz chip.  
>
>What I really need is a newbie friendly frontend that will allow me to
>build tables and run queries and impoirt and export data and results.
>
>I spent a couple hours just trying to build a table in mysql today,
>apparently the syntax in the book is wrong and I'm spinning my wheels.  
>
>Would you fine gents know of something?  Linux and Open Source would be
>great but I can shell out some sheckles  if needed.

There are a couple of general purpose php based utilities for working with
postgresql and mysql, phpMyAdmin and phpPgAdmin.  OpenOffice.org interfaces
nicely using jdbc or odbc connections to either of these databases (jdbc is
probably a better choice as OpenOffice.org has strong java roots).  Zope
and Plone have excellent tools for working with back end databases.

Bill
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