Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management

Whether you are an experienced developer, system administrator, web designer or new to MySQL and phpMyAdmin, this book will show you how to increase your productivity and control when working with your databases.

You will learn how to:

• Administer MySQL users and privileges, and get statistics about MySQL servers and databases
• Manage databases, table data and structures, and indexes
• Use bookmarks and metadata
• Generate multiple SQL queries
• Generate better documentation of evolving table structures

Along the way you’ll build a more detailed understanding of SQL and how it works in MySQL.

What you will learn from this book

As an application developer you’ll learn how to use phpMyAdmin to:

• Effectively perform day-to-day database and table management.
• Create better database tables and relational structures
• More easily document your evolving data structure

As a MySQL server administrator, you’ll benefit from the in-depth and practical coverage of:

• Using phpMyAdmin to manage users and privileges
• Getting server and database statistics

All database users will expand and refine their knowledge of SQL in a MySQL context through using phpMyAdmin to track SQL execution and results.

Approach

The book begins with a comprehensive tutorial of phpMyAdmin that systematically explains and demonstrates the potential of this tool. It then goes on to show the less well known and generally under-used features and capabilities of phpMyAdmin in depth.

In the book you’ll learn about:

• Installing, configuring, and customizing phpMyAdmin.
• MySQL administration.
• Managing databases, table data and, structures.
• Managing indexes.
• Exporting databases and table data and structures.
• Searching databases and tables
• Using metadata and bookmarks
• Generating multiple SQL queries
• Documenting table structures
• Mime-based transformation
• Using themes, character sets, and collations

Who this book is written for

phpMyAdmin is a must have tool for everyone who needs to manage MySQL databases and tables. This book is a must read for every serious phpMyAdmin user who would like to use this outstanding application to its full power.

“The book also includes some good information about PHP and MySQL in general. On page 86, in the chapter on importing data, there's a solid little discussion about PHP file upload and execution limits that trumps anything I've read before. I'm a better developer for having read these four paragraphs about the "upload_max_filesize," "memory_limit," and "post_max_size" parameters.”