phpMyAdmin

Easy to use web gui. Best used for web services employing mysql database. Been using for quite sometime now on several servers.

You made managing mySql quick and reliable. I have saved countless hours thanks to your wonderful project.

phpMyAdmin succeeded in making database management easier. Its cross-platform compatibility is remarkable. However it did not succeed vulgarizing the technical jargon to encompass all sort of users.

Unless you want to do everything by hand, this is the best tool to get a visual tool for administrating MySQL databases. Historically there have been quite a few security vulnerabilities (its PHP after all ;)), so personally I would never run this on a publically available server, but you can always put some protection (htpasswd, etc.) in front of it, since only very few selected people should have access to it anyway. Great timesaver!