When comparing SQL Buddy vs PHPMyAdmin, the Slant community recommends PHPMyAdmin for most people. In the question“What are the best MySQL admin PHP interfaces?” PHPMyAdmin is ranked 2nd while SQL Buddy is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose PHPMyAdmin is:
Editions can be performed over a result table just by clicking the desired field.
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Pros
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
Pro Easy to edit
Editions can be performed over a result table just by clicking the desired field.
Pro Available in most hosting services
Because of its portability, popularity and robustness phpMyAdmin is included in most hosting services that support the LAMP stack.
Pro Easy installation
The installation process itself is very simple, you need to have PHP and MySQL installed on your server, extract the files to a specified directory and run the install script. If you get stuck somewhere there's a lot of help online. The official wiki is very good too as far as the installation goes.
Pro Complete functionality
phpMyAdmin is complete as far as features and functionality go. You can even build a full website without knowing any MySQL.
Pro Portable
phpMyAdmin can run in a web browser, this makes it a very portable tool because it can be run on any computer and on any OS as long as it has a web browser installed.
Cons
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
Con Confusing interface
It may take some time to get used to it.
Con No schema visualization
Con No code higlighting
phpMyAdmin does not have any code highlighting or auto-completion capabilities, unlike other options.
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