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Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management

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Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management

Overview of this book

phpmyAdmin is one of the most widely used open source applications, which is written in PHP. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations with MySQL. Currently, it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges, export data into various formats and is available in 52 languages.phpMyAdmin is a web-based front-end to manage MySQL databases and has been adopted by a number of Open-Source distributors.Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management is an easy-to-read, step-by-step practical guide that walks you through every facet of this legendary toolóphpMyAdminóand takes you a step ahead in taking full advantage of its potential. This book is filled with illustrative examples that will help you understand every phpMyAdmin feature in detail.This is the official guide to this popular MySQL web interface. It starts with installing and configuring phpMyAdmin, including the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage, which is the key to its advanced features. This is followed by configuring authentication in phpMyAdmin and setting parameters that influence the interface as a whole.You will also learn some advanced features such as defining inter-table relations with the advanced Designer module. You will practice synchronizing databases on different servers and managing MySQL replication to improve performance and data security. Moreover, you will also store queries as bookmarks for their quick retrieval.In addition to it, this book helps you to learn new features introduced in version 3.4.x such as users' preferences, producing charts and the visual multi-table query builder.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Query window


In Chapter 3, we discussed the purpose of this window, and the procedure for changing some parameters (such as dimensions). This window can easily be opened from the navigation panel using the SQL icon or the Query window link, as shown in the following screenshot, and is very convenient for entering a query and testing it:

The following screenshot shows the Query window that appears over the main panel:

The window seen in the screenshot contains the same Columns selector and<< button as that used in a Table view context. This distinct Query window is a feature supported only on JavaScript-enabled browsers.

Query window options

The SQL tab is the default active tab in this window. This comes from the configuration directive $cfg['QueryWindowDefTab'], which contains sql by default.

If we want another tab to be the default active tab, we can replace sql with files or history. Another value, full, shows the contents of all the three tabs at once.

In the Query window, we see...