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Hi All, It ain't free, but there's a lovely client for mysql called navicat (http://www.navicat.com/) that we've been using. And even though I *can* do command line queries, gotta say I love pulling lines between tables to set them up. It's not too expensive and I find that for light to medium weight stuff it's fun and easy to use. -t On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > On Jul 30, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Cloutman, David wrote: > >> Perhaps you should put together some MySQL training materials for >> librarians. A webinar, perhaps. I'd love it if my colleagues had those >> skills. I don't think there is that much interest, but I could be wrong. >> There are at least 101 ways enterprise level database skills could be >> put to work in my library. I'm pretty sick of our core technical >> solutions being Excel spreadsheets and the occasional Access database. >> Blech. > > > > Tell me about it, and besides, basic SQL is not any more difficult than CCL. > SELECT this FROM that WHERE field LIKE "%foo%" Moreover, IMHO, relational > databases are the technological bread & butter of librarianship these days. > Blissful ignorance does the profession little good. > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan > Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame