Feature ideas for MySQL support in NetBeans

Lots of folks are having lots of ideas about things we could do around NetBeans and MySQL. This page is an attempt to capture a dump of these ideas as an initial step towards determining what we should be doing.

Please add each feature idea as a separate section to allow for discussion.

Note: All of these features were actually implemented in 6.1, with the exception of "support for MySQL SQL extensions"

Auto-recognize MySQL installation and set up connection

Support for MySQL SQL extensions

Support for creating MySQL stored procedures

Make it easy to bring up phpmyadmin from NetBeans

Make it easy to bring up MySQL's Admin tool from NetBeans

Make it easy to quickly create MySQL sample databases

Port the existing NetBeans sample databases (SAMPLE, TRAVEL, VIR) to MySQL