Using PHPMyAdmin as MySQL administration tool
phpMyAdmin is an excellent tool for MySQL administration. It is an open source PHP based web based application and will require a web server such as Apache with PHP enabled. The advantage of using a web based administration tool is that once installed on a server, anyone in the team can access it without the need to install a database administration tool. If there are multiple MySQL instances to be connected you can have multiple copies of phpMyAdmin running against each MySQL instance with different URL aliases. More than anything all you require is a system to setup and all of the necessary software comes for free. The best way to install all of these in one single shot is to use XAMPP (X stands for any OS, A for Apache, M for MySQL, P for PHP and P for Perl). The package also consists of phpMyAdmin.
