2 Great Web Based Alternatives to PHPMyAdmin

PHPMyAdmin has many features, but it’s slow. Personally I think I use around 30% of what it has to offer. So I searched around for other lighter and faster alternatives and found not one, but two.

1. SQL Buddy

Features:

  • no setup (works out of the box )
  • reduced load time, because it’s AJAX based
  • import - export, which is a must
  • it’s open - source

http://www.sqlbuddy.com/

2. PHP Mini Admin

Features:

  • single file package, extremely portable
  • it has all the basic features: insert, select, create, etc.
  • it’s open - source
  • import - export

http://phpminiadmin.sourceforge.net/

Comments
  1. Vladimir
    September 12th, 2008

    Nice post! I also did one tool who is doing similar stuff it is called:MySql Lite Administrator you can find more on http://code.google.com/p/mysql-lite-administrator/

  2. Henry Ho
    September 12th, 2008

    Thank you for the finds. I will check them out later. Meanwhile, I find MS-SQL to be more productive.

  3. Bull3t
    September 12th, 2008

    I have jsut installed SQL Buddy for use on my server but I find it to be too condensed and error-prone so I am afraid that phpMyAdmin is still number 1 for me.

  4. leo
    September 12th, 2008

    Thanks for the update ‘Bull3t’, but how about the other one that the article talks about?

  5. Gyorgy Fekete
    September 13th, 2008

    SQL Buddy doesn’t support IE6, maybe that’s the problem. I hate IE6 I hope it will be discontinued soon.

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  7. Jeremy Zachary
    September 13th, 2008

    Well if you are not hell bent on using “web-based” tools, then SQLyog is a nice alternative. Actually, I prefer a native client compared to web-based admin software for serious MySQL stuff.

  8. Gyorgy Fekete
    September 13th, 2008

    Yes. I used it a lot, but I switched to Mac and sadly it doesn’t support it. There’s Navicat lite version for Mac, but I don’t feel it…

  9. Flash Developer
    September 17th, 2008

    @Vladimir,
    I checked your tool. Its really nice.

  10. Plasma2002
    September 26th, 2008

    Got any recommendations on a mysql admin program thats NOT web based? Ive been looking for something light and simple that can simply be run from any machine.

  11. Gyorgy Fekete
    September 26th, 2008

    Check out my article on desktop MySQL GUIs here: http://blog.primalskill.com/?p=52

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  13. J Corry
    October 27th, 2008

    [quote]@Vladimir,
    I checked your tool. Its really nice.[/quote]

    That is hilarious!

  14. Paul
    December 6th, 2008

    Just installed SQL Buddy. It’s great! I was getting a long list of PHP Notices outputted when I would export, but adding a .htaccess file in the sqlbuddy directory that contained this solved the problem: # supress php errors php_flag display_startup_errors off php_flag display_errors off php_flag html_errors off php_value docref_root 0 php_value docref_ext 0

  15. Ean
    December 10th, 2008

    Hi dude Jeremy is absolutely rite. Even i found and was suggested
    Sqlyog the best db management tool. Too friendly tool. No doubt in
    trying and using it.

  16. Gregory Patmore
    December 11th, 2008

    “Got any recommendations on a mysql admin program thats NOT web based? Ive been looking for something light and simple that can simply be run from any machine.” I’ve used the freeware community edition of SQLYog now for a few years. I love it.
    FEATURES: http://www.webyog.com/en/sqlyog_feature_list.php
    DIRECT DOWNLOAD: http://www.webyog.com/en/download_form.php?url=http://www.webyog.com/downloads/SQLyog714.exe

  17. Gyorgy Fekete
    December 11th, 2008

    You could use Navicat it supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

    A lite version is also available.

  18. Rob Gordon
    April 28th, 2009

    The free verson SQLYog has very little functionality - it is nearly useless. I’m using MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query, but I wish there was something better. If anyone know of anything, please let me know.

    Rob

  19. mike
    June 5th, 2009

    Thx for sharing.

  20. site4fast
    June 23rd, 2009

    Tanks. Really cool an useful tools

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