![]() If your application only consists of three or four tables, then you may already have one of these sketched out on a bit of paper. Well, if your brain works anything like mine does, then you’ll agree that sometimes it’s nice to have a “big picture” view of things–a diagram of your data goes a long way to helping understand how it fits together. And frameworks like Rails have migrations now, so we’ve got all the tools we need, right? ![]() And if you don’t fancy doing your heavy lifting over http, there are desktop tools like MySQL Query Browser and TOAD. We have web-based tools, like phpmyadmin and phpPgAdmin. Sure, we’ve come a long way from the SQL command line. ![]() You know, filling them with data, watching my users fill them with data, deleting my users’ data* … but as long as it’s all from the safety of a server-side programming language–I’ve never been a big fan of interacting with them directly.
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