SQLyog MySQL GUI Tool

I’ve always worked with UNIX, for years (on the side as a side project as well as for consulting). I’ve ran my own web servers, database servers, and I usually did this all through the command line. When I needed to use MySQL I either went command line or I went through phpMyAdmin. PhpMyAdmin is a great web interface for managing databases, but still, I always felt it was lacking in somewhat. It wasn’t responsive and it was kind of “clunky” but it was still better than the command line.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the command line for certain things, but sometimes when I need to look at tabular data, the command line isn’t my tool of choice.

I recently ran into SQLyog, and I’m using the Community Version and I fell in love with it. The interface reminds me of old Query Analyzer from SQL 2000 and yonder, but its light years better than working with the web interface. I was able to get 10x as much work done with this tool at a client as compared to the command line. Again, I know there are MySQL super guru’s out there who can smoke me on the command line, and I’m cool with that, but this is for the guy who likes the GUI and wants to get a few normal tasks done without having to memorize the entire MySQL Api.

If you work with MySQL at all this tool is worth looking at (if you haven’t already).