It seems as though phpMyAdmin will have competition for the first time. TurboDbAdmin is a breakthrough web application providing online database administration utilizing a single page interface. AJAX powers TurbuDbAdmin so things you do are instant, no need to press submit and wait for the next page to load to see if it was a success/failure. However, it is currently a beta, so I’m not sure how much I could trust such an application with my precious databases. If phpMyAdmin has anything going for it, it is definitely reliability. Playing around with the live demo (needs Firefox 1.5+, doesn’t work in Safari) of TurboDbAdmin brings out some letdowns of the software. AJAX is a great technology but is it really necessary for such an important task? Similar to the way server operating systems cut down on graphics, I don’t think a fancy interface is vital, especially if that comes at the cost of performance and dependability. The way TurboDbAdmin uses AJAX, the moment you edit something it’s saved and executed instantaneously. That creates a playground for error and catastrophe. As of now, the beta does not offer support for creating and altering tables, executing SQL commands, or importing/exporting databases. However, they did spend their time on making it customizable via themes. Somehow, I don’t think they got the point. What server admin is really going to care about the theme of their database software when they have to resurrect a database? Do not get me wrong; the concept of an AJAX-ified database administration client is fantastic. However, TurboAJAX’s execution of this concept needs an overhaul.
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Oh not again, an AJAX fever! AJAX is a good piece of script (technology?) and I do like the implementation of it on my Gmail, but on phpmyadmin? Nah, I think I’ll pass
Not exactly sure how to describe AJAX… its more of a hybrid. Two programming languages used together.
AJAX defined. The Wikipedia definition is fairly good.
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I’ve had phpMyAdmin for about 5 years now. I agree SOME features would be great as AJAX based, but I don’t like the idea of losing my Next/Back buttons, or accidentally changing something. With SQL you want to doublecheck everything before you confirm it.
One incorrect click can mean you’re doing data repair for hours. It’s like vBulletin, that forum features plenty of great AJAX features (optional), but it’s not entirely AJAX based. It’s lets you do simple things using AJAX, but it still uses the old fashioned HTML forms.
I am deeply bored. Everywhere I searched, almost every related page to a replacement of phpMyAdmin in AJAX point to this so-called turbo admin.
There is numerous problems related to it.
There is no authentification (Hello-O ?! The password of the database even has to be entered in plain text in a configuration file !). You can’t modify the structure. There is no search function. I found it astounishingly slow.
There is not the QUARTER of the functions I find in phpMyAdmin. What is the buzz with all this ?!?
IMO phpmyadmin definitely needs some dusting up, the dang thing is sooo slow. I use sqlyog (http://webyog.com/en/).
Haven’t tried TurboDBadmin, and after reading your post, I won’t be :)
I wrote a little greasemonkey script while I was doing some testing which required me to do a lot of quick database editing. It ajaxifies table values on the browse page so that you can just double click the values, type in a new value and hit enter.
It’s only been tested on that one version of phpmyadmin though so I don’t know how it works on others.
http://blog.dayjo.org/?p=263
It looks like TurboDBadmin is no longer available. MonoQL is also a single page, fully AJAXed client tool for phpMyAdmin. Check it out: http://demo.monoql.com