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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

Understanding the goals of the tracking system


Each software application has its own idea of what changes are important to track for its users. This section describes tracking systems that exist in other applications, and compares them to the one offered by phpMyAdmin.

Tracking in other software applications

Having access to historic data that displays all of the changes made to an information system is a feature that is taken for granted in many software products. The "undo" feature of any serious word-processing software is an example of being able to go back in time, albeit one step at the time. A more complex example would be the history feature of MediaWiki (the core software of Wikipedia). It enables us to go back to any state of a given page, to see the changes between any two versions, and even to mark any older version as the current one. Tracking information includes the author (or IP address), the date and time of change, and a comment.

In MySQL itself, the logging system (binlog...