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 Information-File for HeidiSQL
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 ** General Information:
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HeidiSQL is an easy-to-use interface and a "working-horse" for web-developers
using the popular MySQL-Database. It allows you to manage and browse your
databases and tables from an intuitive Windows® interface. 

With HeidiSQL you will also be able to 
- generate nice SQL-exports 
- synchronize tables between two databases 
- manage user-privileges 
- import text-files 
- export table-data as CSV, HTML and XML 
- browse and edit table-data using a comfortable grid 
- batch-insert ascii or binary files into tables 
- write queries with syntax-highlighting
- monitor and kill client-processes 
- and much more :)


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 ** Links for more information:
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Website:            http://www.heidisql.com/
Support-Forum:      http://forum.heidisql.com/
Bugtracker:         http://bugs.heidisql.com/
Featuretracker:     http://rfe.heidisql.com/
Changelog:          http://changes.heidisql.com/
Developer-Readme:   http://svn.heidisql.com/readme.html
This file:          http://svn.heidisql.com/out/readme.txt


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 ** Requirements:
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- libmysql.dll (Client-library for MySQL-Server) 
- msvcrt.dll (Microsoft (R) C Runtime Library) 
- TCP/IP-Protocol 


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 ** License:
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HeidiSQL is OpenSource and released under GPL (GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE).

Maybe it saved you a lot of time and therefore you like it. In this case
you may make a donation. For this purpose point your web-browser
to the following URL:
http://www.heidisql.com/donate.php


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 ** The authors:
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- Ansgar Becker (project lead and development)
- David Dindorp (development)
- Martijn Nijenhof (development)
- Francisco Ernesto Teixeira (development)
- Sven Lorenz (graphics)
- Mikkel M. Gerhardt-Pedersen (additional bugfixes)
- Tony Peng (additional bugfixes)

The team is spread over 5 different countries:
Germany, Danmark, Netherlands, Brazil and China.


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 ** Very special thanks go to:
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- ZeosLib under GPL - http://sourceforge.net/projects/zeoslib/
- SynEdit under LGPL - http://synedit.sourceforge.net
- Scalabium Software for Freeware SMDBGrid - http://www.scalabium.com/
- Inno Setup - http://www.jrsoftware.org/
- Sebastián Mayorá for EDBImage
- Daniel Hahler for the name "HeidiSQL" - http://daniel.hahler.de/
- MySQL for great database software


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