Introduction — phpMyAdmin 4.6.6 documentation

phpMyAdmin can manage a whole MySQL server (needs a super-user) as
well as a single database. To accomplish the latter you’ll need a
properly set up MySQL user who can read/write only the desired
database. It’s up to you to look up the appropriate part in the MySQL
manual.

Currently phpMyAdmin can:

Many people have difficulty understanding the concept of user
management with regards to phpMyAdmin. When a user logs in to
phpMyAdmin, that username and password are passed directly to MySQL.
phpMyAdmin does no account management on its own (other than allowing
one to manipulate the MySQL user account information); all users must
be valid MySQL users.

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Welcome to phpMyAdmin’s documentation!

Requirements

Introduction

Supported features

A word about users

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  • browse and drop databases, tables, views, columns and indexes
  • display multiple results sets through stored procedures or queries
  • create, copy, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, columns and
    indexes
  • maintenance server, databases and tables, with proposals on server
    configuration
  • execute, edit and bookmark any SQL-statement, even batch-queries
  • load text files into tables
  • create [1] and read dumps of tables
  • export [1] data to various formats: CSV, XML, PDF,
    ISO/IEC 26300 – OpenDocument Text and Spreadsheet, Microsoft
    Word 2000, and LATEX formats
  • import data and MySQL structures from OpenDocument spreadsheets, as
    well as XML, CSV, and SQL files
  • administer multiple servers
  • manage MySQL users and privileges
  • check referential integrity in MyISAM tables
  • using Query-by-example (QBE), create complex queries automatically
    connecting required tables
  • create PDF graphics of your
    database layout
  • search globally in a database or a subset of it
  • transform stored data into any format using a set of predefined
    functions, like displaying BLOB-data as image or download-link
  • track changes on databases, tables and views
  • support InnoDB tables and foreign keys
  • support mysqli, the improved MySQL extension see 1.17 Which Database versions does phpMyAdmin support?
  • create, edit, call, export and drop stored procedures and functions
  • create, edit, export and drop events and triggers
  • communicate in 80 different languages
[1] (1, 2) phpMyAdmin can compress (Zip, GZip or RFC 1952
formats) dumps and CSV exports if you use PHP with
Zlib support (--with-zlib).
Proper support may also need changes in php.ini.

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