On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 02:52:49PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 04:27:30PM -0400, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira > wrote: > > I have some questions: > > 1) Is there any frontend gui to postgres in Debian Hamm or Slink > > or Pota > > to? > > 2) Is there any frontend gui to mysql in Debian Hamm or Slink or > > Potato? > > Does it make much sense to have a generic gui frontend to an SQL db? > Usually you would want something specific to your database/application.
Ah, here's a difference between the Pee-Cee world and the *nix world where there's something to be said for the "other place." It's really handy to be able to take a quick look at a database to see what the structure is like, how many tables, how many records, etc., etc. You can certainly do that with SQL (I do it regularly), but I do find myself remembering fondly how much easier it was to do in Paradox for DOS. Note that I'm not talking about an application-specific front end, that's an entirely different kettle of fish. -- your man pann
