MySql Control Center General Information  

  MySQL Control Center (also known as MySQLCC) is a platform-independent administration 
client for the MySQL database server. Built Trolltech's Qt application toolkit, MyCC makes
it easy to create databases and tables, write and execute SQL queries in a syntax-highlightning 
editor, examine the contents of your tables directly, and back up or fine-tune your server setup. 
It support both local and remote servers, and all table types.

 The Main Features: 
1.Interactive queries with a syntax-highlighting SQL editor.
 
With MySQLCC, you can construct queries using a syntax-highlighting text editor,
and then view the results in a configurable table display. 
The table view includes support for viewing images stored in BLOB fields. 

2. Database and table management.
 
MySQLCC makes it easy to create and manage databases and tables, including
views for all of the table and field attributes such as comments and key
lengths. You can also check, repair, and optimize tables.

3. Server administration.
 
You can easily view and change server variables, as well as view server
status information. MySQLCC also supports multiple servers. 

4. Cross-platform
 
MySQLCC uses Trolltech's Qt toolkit, which means it can run on Microsoft Windows 
and Unix environments.

Notes on QT:
Qt is a multiplatform C++ GUI application framework. 
It provides application developers with all the functionality needed to build applications
with state-of-the-art graphical user interfaces.
Qt is fully object-oriented, easily extensible, and allows true component programming. 
Qt is also the basis of the popular KDE Linux desktop environment. 

Qt is supported on the following platforms: 
Unix/X11 -- Linux, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Compaq Tru64 UNIX, IBM AIX, SGI IRIX and a wide range of others 
Macintosh -- Mac OS X 
Embedded -- Linux platforms with framebuffer support. 

The latest version of Qt Free Edition can be downloaded from 
http://www.trolltech.com or from ftp.trolltech.com.

5. Compiling MySQL Control Center under Linux/Unix.
1. The basic commands to install MCC source distribution are:

     shell> gunzip < mysqlcc-VERSION.tar.gz | tar -xvf 
     shell> cd mysqlcc-VERSION 
     shell> ./configure 
     shell> make

For a list of possible configure options type: shell> ./configure --help

2. MySQL Client libraries and headers need to be installed. 

3. Trolltech's Qt 3.x.x library is required to build this application from source. 
To fully enable graphics support in MySQL Control Center add the following optionS:
     -shared  
     -thread 
     -qt-gif   
     -no-stl   
     -qt-imgfmt-png
     -qt-imgfmt-jpeg 
     -qt-imgfmt-mng  
 
4. Start MySQL Control Center with the following command: shell> /usr/local/mysqlcc/mysqlcc

MySQL Control Center is a Graphical GUI Client.  
This means you will need to be running in an X environment before starting MySQLCC.
         


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Last Modified  January 24, 2003