Alternatives to PHPMyAdmin

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I like phpmyadmin - I need it at least a couple times a week - but it can crash Firefox and hang my computer with large databases. Has anyone tried any of the alternatives like http://phpminiadmin.sourceforge.net & http://www.sqlbuddy.com ?

 

I'm going to upload sqlbuddy and see how it works.

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Well, it depends on the client. Some are as small as a meg and others can be about 20 megs. But I don't know if it is the database or phpmyadmin. I just assumed the larger db's are to blame although I'm reading that phpmyadmin is hefty and may be a bit bloated.

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I've worked on databases up to 400MB on my own machine without problems. However on a production server, I've seen PHPMyAdmin choke on a database about 50Mb in size. We had to allocate more RAM to it on the server.

 

I realise that's a slightly different issue, just thought I'd mention it.

 

I checked out sqlbuddy last night. Although it was nice and fast, I was getting PHP errors and warnings all over the place. (It was MySql server running on Ubuntu). I can't trust a production database to that! Anyone else seeing these problems?

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I still haven't had a chance to try it out yet. My problems could be b/c of Firefox. I should create a profile that has a trimmed down set of addons because I use a lot and it eats up my RAM. Ff can peak over 350MB on a regular day of work.

 

And it might only happen with certain hosts or php settings. I'll have to keep track of it now b/c I wonder if happens on hosts that have a PHP memory limit setting or execution time.