Comments on: TurboDBAdmin

By: Jesse Gardner

Jesse Gardner — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:27:53 +0000

Very good find! Interesting because while I do like the power of phpMyAdmin, doing anything in it is like using DOS. Thanks for the headsup.

By: Scott J. Miles

Scott J. Miles — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:51:36 +0000

Update: it turns out TurboDbAdmin does in fact support HTTPS out of the box. IMO, HTTPS + basic auth = solid security.

By: Scott J. Miles

Scott J. Miles — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:40:28 +0000

Hi, thanks for mentioning TurboDbAdmin in your blog. We didn’t include a login procedure in the 0.1 version in order to keep installation at an absolute minimum: we decided that .htaccess is just as secure and probably easier to set up.
Having said that, we do have a login system we will provide later on, after we ensure the stability of the core. We may also include a tunneling protocol, but the crypto is slow in JS. HTTPS does make a lot of sense, look for that support soon too.

By: filosofo

filosofo — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:54:30 +0000

Yes, I don’t understand why there isn’t a basic login procedure.

By: mounty

mounty — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:24:56 +0000

Might be data type problems - Access doesn’t like the BIGINT type that MySQL defaults to for auto_increment fields. The other caveat about this is that it’s not secure - no HTTPS and no authentication beyond the initial configuration. At the very least anyone using this should .htaccess the directory this sits in.

By: filosofo

filosofo — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:06:45 +0000

Yeah, I’ve used Access before in the same way. This is just more convenient for me because I use a Linux box most of the time. Also, I’ve noticed some odd behavior by Access when adding records to a remote db, if the table has an automatically generated key field.

By: mounty

mounty — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:58:33 +0000

Looks interesting. I’ve found that, for servers that I have control over, five minutes of tweaking will allow me to use Access and ODBC to get everything I need, data-wise. This comes in handy with one particularly slow file server I run - phpMyAdmin takes forever to run, but Access ODBC on a remote system is lightning quick. For quick edits it’s a good deal. I’ll see what this is like. Thanks for the heads-up.