Serious BUGs for MySQL- Look inside for details

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OK, I was thinking this was a very nice tool, but have since found some very 
SERIOUS bugs that make it unreliable for complete usage.

Look below and save yourself LOTS of time and frustration!

1. MySQL 5.1.60 on shared webhost

2. wwwsqldesigner 2.6 on Windows 7, running from webhost (same as in #1) via 
Firefox 8.0

The MySQL code generated has a few problems.

1. Text fields use field size in parenthesis for create table, which will NOT 
work. Ex: collector (100)   <--You MUST remove the (100) for it to work. In 
MySQL 5.1 (at least) the 100 is where collation and such would be. Syntax error.

2. I enabled the option to display field sizes in the table and then reloaded 
the page. When you output the code, the TEXT fields are created with the size 
as part of the name!!! Ex: Name: collector (100)
This causes a form not to submit to add_record.php (form input field must match 
field of database exactly). This was very difficult to find and only caught my 
attention after much debugging and using an admin program to view the table 
structure that was created.

So both issues seem related to Text type. I don't know if this is due to 
changes in mySQL with v5.1 or what, but as is WILL NOT WORK! You can modify the 
output code and use it, but it would be better to fix it in the program itself- 
PLEASE! :)

In summary, I like the simple and clean interface. It makes visualizing data 
very simple, but it really needs to be fixed so it functions properly with text 
fields in current versions of mySQL.

I like it. Please fix it.

- JC

Original issue reported on code.google.com by scrap...@gmail.com on 5 Jan 2012 at 6:14

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The issue #2 (field size as a part of field name) was already fixed 
(http://code.google.com/p/wwwsqldesigner/source/detail?r=b06737612b95517be74ec68
467b69bbb66aa9ca6), please update your wwwsqldesigner.js to latest revision.

I will further investigate issue #1 and let you know the resolution.

Original comment by ondrej.zara on 5 Jan 2012 at 7:39

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The generated code should work:

mysql> create table test ( a char (10), b varchar (20) );
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.06 sec)

$ dpkg -l | grep "mysql-server\s"
ii  mysql-server                                            5.1.49-3 

Original comment by ondrej.zara on 10 Feb 2012 at 1:12

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Closing for no activity.

Original comment by ondrej.zara on 15 Mar 2014 at 9:18

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