So, I decided to use MySQL Query Browser to look over my database remotely through SSH. I''m currently on Windows Vista and had decided not to use PHPMYADMIN, mainly because others gave me good reasons not to via security issues. I opened up putty, configured SSH > Tunneling to point to localhost 3306 and added this to my saved putty session which connects via SSH to a very unknown port. In essence, this would allow me to SSH to my server remotely and also create a tunnel that mysql query browser can use locally. What I found out by accident is that when I opened netbeans to work in development it automatically connected to my development database remotely through the SSH tunnel. So, I was able to work on my development app on my production box through my IDE. Now, I''m sure others might have already known this but I actually found it very nice for testing purposes to be able to utilize the DBs on my production box against the code I''m writing. Anyhoo, I thought I''d share this with anyone that didn''t know you could do this. If you need more information, holler. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.