The MySQL Workbench GUI is cross-platform, open source, and incredibly easy to use.

Inserting a string into a MySQL table is a matter of logging into the MySQL server, then issuing an "insert" command for the table column that holds text data.

Click the database you want to use to insert data. Type the MySQL insert statement that inserts the characters, placing a backslash in front of any commas or quotes.

Jack Wallen explains how to add data into a MySQL table from the command line.

The MySQL Workbench team has released the latest Release Candidate 5.0.15 of their new DBMS modeling tool. This includes quite a few recent bug fixes and it's now rapidly approaching the GA status ...