Hey.
This is Shacho writing.

Recently, when I was looking through how DB Tracklayer is being recognized on search engines, I found a website that gives a pretty detailed review.
A blog of sbpyun from Korea.

Written in Korean, maybe people in other countries won’t have a chance to have a look, so we translated it. Let me introduce you.
sbpyun! Thank you for the wonderful review and generously allowing us to reprint the article.

sbpyun’s Blog（http://lab.namudal.com/）

Below is the translation of the Blog.
Post address: http://lab.namudal.com/90
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Connect from iPhone to MySQL and send queries and control.

It seems like iPhone is receiving more and more reputation.
This Thursday morning at dawn, I’m going to introduce you a powerful iPhone application, DB Tracklayer, created in Japan.

This application is very useful for users of MySQL.
If you are not familiar with MySQL, maybe you don’t have to read the below.
And also if you don’t need to connect to MySQL DB on a network, then you don’t need to read this information too.

Let me give you a simple example. On Sunday, you are climbing Mt.Inwangsan and then you suddenly have to connect to the MySQL DB on a server in the office or on a PC at your home for an urgent business matter.
If you have iPhone, you have no problem. You can immediately do your job relating to DB control at Mt.Inwangsan.
It’s because there is an application “DB Tracklayer” which I’m going to introduce you now.

It’s a free application.
You should search and download it right away.
This is a splash screen of DB Tracklayer, a very simple one.
The splash appears only for a second, so it took a trouble to take this image capture.

The image above is a screen that appears when you click the last icon on the image below.

These images are from application information.
It supports English, Japanese, Chinese and even Korean.
And it supports every basic database manipulation.
It’s quite a powerful tool.

4 images below show what it is like to connect to MySQL on an address 192.168.11.52 with an ID named root and to browse DB status and DB table structure and to execute a query.

Let’s check this flow with my database.

This shows the information of the company which created this application.
You can see on their website that they are a company named Tracksystems, located in Ueno, Tokyo.
As their motto is “simple, fresh, usable”, the application is really simple but fresh and usable.

OK, then let’s connect to my DB.
(I blacked out some information such as IP. Thanks for your understanding. )

The HELP pages are great. Have a look!

Now I’m connecting.
When it’s connected, you’ll see a list of databases.
Hmm, familiar database names.
The one blacked out.
Tap the DB to get in, then you can see tables in the DB.

Actually… I guess it searches faster than SQLyog does.
Very satisfying.

Well then let’s try a simple query..
Tap the –Q button on the top of the screen above, then the SQL screen to generate query statements will appear.
The results are below.

I’d like to express gratefulness to the developer in Japan for making a sincere effort to create such a necessary and simple application.
Thank you so much. .

sbpyun.

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We are also grateful to sbpyun for tracing basic manipulation in quite a detail.
Thank you very much.

Well, such an attractive application, DB Tracklayer.
If you are an iPhone or a Touch user, I really recommend you to download and try it.
In fact…
DB Tracklayer is soon going to switch to a new version which implements a proprietary MySQL connector, and at the same time, the existing full version is going to change to a paid App.
We are going to distribute a free Lite version at the same time, but it has limited functions. So the present version on AppStore (1.0.3) is going to be a last free full version.
Users who possess a version 1.0.3 or earlier can upgrade to the version 1.5.0 for free, so you should get DB Tracklayer right away. (To tell the truth, we would appreciate it if you support us by buying the paid version..)

Well then, see you.