Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.3.x for Effective MySQL Management

Table of Contents

Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.3.x for Effective MySQL Management

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with phpMyAdmin

Introducing phpMyAdmin

Web applications

PHP and MySQL: The leading open source duo

What is phpMyAdmin?

Project documentation

Installing phpMyAdmin

Required information

System requirements

Downloading the files

Installing on different platforms

Installing on a remote server using a Windows machine

Installing on a local Linux server

Installing on local Windows servers (Apache, IIS)

Configuring phpMyAdmin

The config.inc.php file

Avoiding false error messages about permissions on config.inc.php

Configuration principles

Web-based setup script

Manually creating config.inc.php

Tips for editing config.inc.php on a Windows client

Description of some configuration parameters

PmaAbsoluteUri

Server-specific sections

extension

connect_type, socket, and port

compress configuration

PersistentConnections

Upgrading phpMyAdmin

Summary

2. Configuring Authentication and Security

Logging in to MySQL through phpMyAdmin

Logging in to an account without a password

Authenticating a single user with config

Testing the MySQL connection

Authenticating multiple users

Authentication types offered

The control user

Logging out

Authenticating with HTTP

Authenticating users with cookie values

Authenticating through the signon mode

Configuring for multiple server support

Defining servers in the configuration file

Authenticating through an arbitrary server

Securing phpMyAdmin

Protecting phpMyAdmin at the directory level

Displaying error messages

Protecting with IP-based access control

Defining rules

Order of interpretation for rules

Blocking root access

Protecting in-transit data

Authenticating using Swekey hardware

Configuring Swekey authentication

Using phpMyAdmin in a Swekey context

Security note

Access logging

Available information

Configuring Apache

Summary

3. Over Viewing the Interface

Over viewing panels and windows

Login panels

Navigation and main panels

Home page

Views

Query window

Starting page

Customizing general settings

Configuring the window title

Configuring icons

Natural sort order for database and table names

Creating site-specific headers and footers

Displaying MySQL documentation links

Themes

Configuring themes

Selecting themes

Assigning colors using the color picker

Sliders

Limiting URL lengths

Restricting the list of databases

Character sets, collations, and language

Collations

Unicode and UTF-8

Selecting languages

Effective character sets and collations

Navigation panel

Configuring the logo

Database and table list

Light mode

Tree display of database names

Table name filter

Full mode

Table short statistics

Table quick-access icon

Nested display of tables within a database

Choosing from the server list

Handling many databases or tables

Limits on the interface

Improving fetch speed

Main panel

Home page

Database view

Table view

Server view

Icons for the home page and menu tabs

Opening a new phpMyAdmin window

Query window

Summary

4. Taking First Steps

Creating a database

No privileges?

First database creation is authorized

Creating our first table

Choosing the fields

Creating a table

Choosing keys

Inserting data manually

Data entry panel tuning for CHAR and VARCHAR

Browse mode

SQL query links

Navigation bar

Query results operations

Sorting results

Headwords

Color-marking rows

Limiting the length of each column

Display options

Browsing distinct values

Customizing the browse mode

Creating an additional table

Summary

5. Changing Data and Structure

Changing data

Entering edit mode

Moving to the next field with the tab key

Moving with arrows

Handling NULL values

Applying a function to a value

Duplicating rows of data

Multi-row editing

Editing the next row

Deleting data

Deleting a single row

Deleting many rows

Deleting all of the rows in a table

Deleting all rows in many tables

Deleting tables

Deleting databases

Changing a table's structure

Adding a field

Vertical mode

Horizontal mode

Editing field attributes

TEXT fields

BLOB (Binary Large Object) fields

Uploading binary content

ENUM and SET fields

DATE, DATETIME, and TIMESTAMP fields

Calendar pop up

TIMESTAMP options

Bit fields

Managing indexes

Single-field indexes

Multi-field indexes and index editing

FULLTEXT indexes

Optimizing indexes with EXPLAIN

Detecting index problems

Summary

6. Exporting Structure and Data (Backup)

Dumps, backups, and exports

Scope of the export

Exporting a database

The export subpanel

SQL

Defining options for SQL export

The Save as file subpanel

File name template

Compression

Choosing a character set

Kanji support

CSV

CSV for MS Excel

PDF

Microsoft Word 2000

LaTeX

XML

Open document spreadsheet

Open document text

YAML

CodeGen

Texy! text

PHP array

Excel 97-2003 and Excel 2007 Workbook

MediaWiki table

Exporting a table

Split-file exports

Exporting selectively

Exporting partial query results

Exporting and checkboxes

Exporting multiple databases

Saving the export file on the server

User-specific save directories

Memory limits

Summary

7. Importing Structure and Data

Limits for the transfer

Time limits

Other limits

Handling big export files

Uploading into a temporary directory

Importing SQL files

Importing CSV files

Differences between SQL and CSV formats

Exporting a test file

CSV

CSV using LOAD DATA

Requirements

Using the LOAD DATA interface

Importing other formats

Open Document Spreadsheet

Excel

XML

Reading files from a web server upload directory

Displaying an upload progress bar

Configuring APC

Displaying a character set dialog

Summary

8. Searching Data

Using Search page daily

Single-table searches

Entering the search subpage

Searching criteria by field—query by example

Searching for empty or non-empty values

Producing reports with Print view

Searching with wildcard characters

Performing a case-sensitive search

Combining criteria

Search options

Selecting the fields to be displayed

Ordering the results

Applying a WHERE clause

Avoiding repeated results

Performing a complete database search

Restricting the search to a column

Stopping an errant query

Summary

9. Performing Table and Database Operations

Maintaining a table

Changing table attributes

Table storage engine

Table comments

Table order

Table collation

Table options

Renaming, moving, and copying tables

Appending data to a table

Multi-table operations

Repairing an in use table

Database operations

Renaming a database

Copying a database

Summary

10. Benefiting from the Relational System

Relational MySQL

InnoDB and PBXT

Linked-tables infrastructure

Goal of the infrastructure

Location of the infrastructure

Installing the linked-tables infrastructure

Installing for a single user

Configuring the infrastructure

Installing for multiple users

Defining relations with the relation view

Defining internal relations

Defining the relation

Defining the display field

Foreign key relations

Foreign keys without linked-tables infrastructure

Defining relations with the Designer

Over viewing the interface

Defining relations

Defining foreign key relations

Defining the display field

Exporting for PDF schema

Benefiting from the defined relations

Foreign key information

The drop-down list of foreign keys

The browsable foreign-table window

Referential integrity checks

Automatic updates of metadata

Column-commenting

Automatically migrating column comments

Summary

11. Entering SQL Commands

The SQL query box

The Database view

The Table view

The Fields selector

Clicking into the query box

The Query window

Query window options

Session-based SQL history

Database-based SQL history (permanent)

Editing queries in the query window

Multi-statement queries

Pretty printing (syntax-highlighting)

The SQL Validator

System requirements

Making the Validator available

Validator results

Standard-conforming queries

Non-standard-conforming queries

Summary

12. Generating Multi-table Queries

Choosing tables

Exploring column criteria

Field selector: Single-column or all columns

Sorting columns

Showing a column

Updating the query

Adding conditions to the criteria box

Adjusting the number of criteria rows

Adjusting the number of criteria columns

Generating automatic joins

Executing the query

Summary

13. Synchronizing Data and Supporting Replication

Synchronizing data and structure

Goals of synchronization

Moving between the development and production servers

Collaboration between database designers

Preparing for replication

Over viewing the synchronization process

Preparing for the synchronization exercise

Choosing source and target servers and databases

Analyzing comparison results

Performing a complete synchronization

Performing a selective synchronization

Supporting MySQL replication

The Replication menu

Configuring replication

Master server configuration

Slave server configuration

Setting up a test environment

Controlling a slave server

Obtaining replication information

Gathering replication status

Replicated databases

Replicated tables

Summary

14. Using Bookmarks

Comparing bookmark and query history features

Creating bookmarks

Creating a bookmark after a successful query

Storing a bookmark before sending a query

Making bookmarks public

The default initial query for a table

Multi-query bookmarks

Recalling bookmarks from the bookmarks list

Executing bookmarks

Manipulating bookmarks

Bookmark parameters

Creating a parameterized bookmark

Passing a parameter value to a bookmark

Executing bookmarks by browsing the pma_bookmark table

Summary

15. Documenting the System

Producing structure reports

Creating a printable report

The database print view

The selective database print view

The table print view

Preparing a complete report with the data dictionary

Generating relational schemas in PDF

Adding a third table to our model

Editing PDF pages

Page planning

Creating a new page

Editing a page

Displaying a page

Changing the font in PDF schema

Laying out a PDF schema with the Designer feature

Summary

16. Transforming Data Using MIME

Browsing data without transformations

Switching display options

Enabling transformations

Configuring settings for MIME columns

Selecting the MIME type

Browser transformations

Assigning values to transformation options

Requirements for image generation

Configuring GD2 library availability verification

Asserting support of JPEG and PNG libraries

Evaluating the impact of memory limits

Examples of transformations

Clickable thumbnail (.jpeg or .png)

Adding links to an image

Date formatting

Links from text

text/plain: link

text/plain: imagelink

Preserving the original formatting

Displaying parts of a text

Displaying a download link

Hexadecimal representation

SQL pretty printing

IP address

Transforming data via external applications

External application example: In-cell sort

Summary

17. Supporting MySQL 5.0 and 5.1

Activating support for views

Manually creating a view

Main panel and views

Creating a view from results

Renaming a view

Controlling row counting for improved performance

Supporting routines—stored procedures and functions

Creating a stored procedure

Changing the delimiter

Entering the procedure

Testing the procedure

Manipulating procedures and functions

Manually creating a function

Testing the function

Exporting stored procedures and functions

Executing code with triggers

Manually creating a trigger

Testing the trigger

Using information_schema

Profiling

Partitioning

Creating a table with partitions

Maintaining partitions

Exporting a partition definition

Exploring the Event Scheduler

Activating the scheduler

Granting EVENT permission

Creating an event

Manipulating events

Exporting

BLOB streaming

System requirements

Configuring BLOB streaming

Examining implementation limitations in phpMyAdmin

Creating the PBMS system tables

Preparing the table

Uploading to the BLOB repository

Streaming the data from the repository

Changing repository data

Summary

18. Tracking Changes

Understanding the goals of the tracking system

Tracking in other software applications

Tracking in phpMyAdmin

Prerequisites

Configuring a basic tracking mechanism

Principles

Versioning

Taking a snapshot of the current structure

Understanding archiving issues

Initiating tracking for one table

Choosing the statements to be tracked

Testing the tracking mechanism

Tracking report

Determining tracking status

Deactivating and activating tracking

Structure snapshot

Exporting a version

Creating a new version

Quickly accessing tracking information

Deleting tracking information

Summary

19. Administrating the MySQL Server with phpMyAdmin

Managing users and their privileges

The user overview

Privileges reload

Adding a user

Entering the username

Assigning a host value

Setting passwords

Understanding rights for database creation

Assigning global privileges

Limiting the resources used

Editing a user profile