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SQLyog: Open source MySQL manager for Windows

by Jordan Running on September 5, 2006 at 03:30 PM

I've never actually heard of SQLyog before (even though it claims to be the "most popular MySQL GUI for the last 4 years"), but its web site is making a big deal out of the fact that this GUI front-end for MySQL is now open source, ergo free, and I certainly won't complain about there being more free MySQL front-ends in the world. To be fair, it's the "Community Edition" that's gone OSS--Enterprise will still cost you--but it does tout a solid feature set, including a favorites manager, a tabbed query/result set editor, SQL templates, export to CSV/XML/HTML, user management, and more. With the recent death of MySQL-Front, SQLyog is a very welcome addition to the open source family.

Tags: database, db, dbms, frontend, mysql, mysqlfront, opensource, sql, sqlyog, windows

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blablaSep 5th 2006 6:10PM

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well it LOOKS good.

only problem: to access my SQL database I need the SSH tunneling. and this feature is only available in the enterprise version. I think this is strange because SSH tunneling is very important ESPECIALLY for non-corporate users that have their SQL database running on a hosted webserver... too bad.

Does anyone have alternative suggestions? Accessing SQL directly from my home sounds great compared to PHP MyAdmin...

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blablaSep 5th 2006 6:31PM

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update: well looks like I did not miss much. i tried the trial of the enterprise version and it does not work either. I suppose the problem is, that it does not allow to specify SSH authentication methods, and since my server uses "keyboard interactive" instead of "password" it can't even login to the ssh server.

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Peter LaursenSep 16th 2006 7:37PM

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@blabla: Your problem was that version 5.2 beta1 was wrongly packaged. It simply contained the wrong version of the tunneller client code. The changelogs clearly tells that. It was fixed with beta2 long ago now. Try again! (and BTW: beta3 has been released now)

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