Database Front end suggestion

[Shawn Tayler]

Thanks Bill,

I'll look into these today....

Shawn

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 22:02:20 -0800 Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com>
exclaimed:

> 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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