I am either asking the wrong question or looking for something the wrong way through Google.
I have a MySQL template file (or that is what I would call it) that is used as the basis for creating the necessary fields and values to start a new MySQL DB for each new project.
I need to toss in a few more folders that came with package. As well as edit the contents and values of a few others.
Navicat , and Db Forge Studio all want to work with *.sql files that are already loaded (or so it appears) but what i need to edit is the "layout" for a db that is not yet installed.
I can edit it just fine in Notepad++ but the results are not exactly what I expected. I was hoping to find a tool that would allow me to load the "starter".sql file, make the necessary changes and then see what they would look like IF they were installed.
Since I seldom read instruction manuals
and have never edited a MySQL file structure anyway, it is quite likely one of these will already do this but i am not using the correct function to load the file. I am just asking for opinions on whatever program might be best suited for this task.
And of course, it has to work without reading a manual
