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Add to SafariWhen comparing Adminer vs SQL Buddy, the Slant community recommends Adminer for most people. In the question“What are the best MySQL admin PHP interfaces?” Adminer is ranked 1st while SQL Buddy is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Adminer is:
The installation and Adminer itself only requires a single PHP file. Once it's uploaded you can log in and start using it.
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Pros
Pro Lightweight
The installation and Adminer itself only requires a single PHP file. Once it's uploaded you can log in and start using it.
Pro Supports more than MySQL
It supports several database management systems (Postgres, SQLite, Oracle, MS SQL and of course MySQL).
Pro Database views
Anyone who uses the views function will appreciate Adminer better. You can click on a view and edit to change the view. In phpMyAdmin, you can edit a view, but it's not easy or intuitive. SQL Buddy doesn't have any way of doing this.
Pro Themes
Has a great variety of themes which transfers pretty ugly application into a great looking one.
Pro Installation
No need to install, it's available to use out of the box.
Pro Requires no installation
SQL Buddy can run inside the web browser and requires no installation whatsoever. Just extract the folder to the server and login using the database username and password.
Pro Support for both SQLite and MySQL
SQL Buddy supports not only MySQL by SQLite as well.
Pro Easy to use
It has a powerful, simple interface.
Pro Beautiful interface
Cons
Con Bulk edition problems
Con Relatively slow
The UI uses AJAX, which while not terribly slow, it's still slower than other options that strictly use only HTML for their UI.
Con No newline character rending on varchar fields
Con Bulk edition problems
