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This tool really sped up my work one time, when I took on a new project and the server person sent me credentials to a really strangely configured & locked down account. Then a year or so later it happened again and man, there are a lot of people running small business servers that make tools like this valuable (this was years ago and I still come across this kind of thing).

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just wonder isn't this same as login via db shell. psql or mysql whatever? Why do we need a php file to do that?

Its useful if you dont have access to the shell, i've used it many times in situations where theres less than ideal access.

It's just faster. For many people, including me, clicking trough the DB and figuring out stuff in GUI is faster and easier that doing it from CLI. Usually I still execute final query manually either trough CLI or Adminer but figuring out what have to be done I'm doing trough GUI. Even things like searching records or editing single entries are easier and faster in GUI.

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