I've used mysql with forums and blogs. I don't know any DB language per se, although I'm not scared to make queries in PHPmyadmin if I'm given the command to execute. And I can poke around in the tables and usually eventually find what I need. That's all worked fine up until now.

Now I need to have a custom DB made to store some customer and sales info so I can track converting KWs, revenue, etc. I was just in the process of writing an ad to find someone to set this up for me and then it dawned on me that I have no idea how to use and manipulate that data once it's in there.

I searched for things like "mysql administration", "use mysql data", etc. but all I've found are command line things which I hope to avoid. I have the mysql administrator tool but that's really not much different from phpmyadmin. (Unless I'm missing something.)

Is there any WYSIWYG software that would allow me to view/sort/manipulate the mysql data or do I have to learn command line stuff? I'd even settle for some way to get it into a spreadsheet and use it that way.

It also dawned on me that maybe I don't even know enough about this to be specific about what I need a programmer to do, but I guess that's another subject.

I appreciate any ideas.