Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management

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Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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

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 client

Installing on a local Linux server

Installing on a local Windows server (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

PersistentConnections

controluser

Installing phpMyAdmin configuration storage

Goal of the configuration storage

Location of the configuration storage

Performing the installation

Installing for a single user

Installing for multiple users

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

Authenticating with HTTP

Authenticating with cookie values

Authenticating with signon mode

Configuring for multiple server support

Defining servers in the configuration file

Authenticating through an arbitrary server

Logging out

Securing phpMyAdmin

Protecting phpMyAdmin at 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

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 window title

Natural sort order for database and table names

Creating site-specific header and footer

Themes

Configuring themes

Selecting themes

Selecting a language

Slider

Restricting the list of databases

Deactivating Ajax

Character sets and collations

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 abridged statistics

Table quick-access icon

Nested display of tables within a database

Counting the number of tables

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 home page and menu tabs

Opening a new phpMyAdmin window

User preferences

Accessing user preferences

Possible locations for saving preferences

Saving in phpMyAdmin configuration storage

Saving in a file

Saving in the browser's local storage

Changing settings

Disallowing specific preferences

Showing developer settings

Query window

Summary

4. Creating and Browsing Tables

Creating a database

No privileges

First database creation is authorized

Creating our first table

Choosing the columns

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

Displaying data as a chart

Sorting results

Headwords

Color-marking rows or columns

Limiting the length of each column

Display options

Browsing distinct values

Profiling queries

Creating an additional table

Summary

5. Changing Data and Structure

Changing data

Entering edit mode

Moving to 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

Inline row editing

Deleting data

Deleting a single row

Deleting multiple rows

Deleting all of the rows in a table

Deleting all rows in multiple tables

Deleting tables

Deleting databases

Changing table structure

Adding a column

Vertical mode

Editing column attribute

TEXT column type

BLOB (Binary Large Object) column type

Uploading binary content

ENUM and SET column types

DATE, DATETIME, and TIMESTAMP column types

Calendar pop up

TIMESTAMP option

Bit column type

Managing indexes

Single-column indexes

Multi-column 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 Table(s) sub-panel

The Output sub-panel

File name template

Choosing a character set

Kanji support

Compression

Export formats

SQL

CSV

CSV for Microsoft Excel

PDF

Microsoft Word 2000

LaTeX

XML

Open document spreadsheet

Open document text

YAML

CodeGen

Texy! text

PHP array

MediaWiki table

JSON

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

XML

Reading files from a web server upload directory

Displaying an upload progress bar

Configuring APC

Summary

8. Searching Data

Single-table searches

Entering the search page

Searching criteria by column—query by example

Searching for empty / non-empty values

Producing reports with Print view

Searching with wildcard characters

Case sensitivity and search

Combining criteria

Search options

Selecting the columns to be displayed

Ordering the results

Applying a WHERE clause

Avoiding repeated results

Performing a complete database search

Restricting 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

Emptying or deleting a table

Renaming, moving, and copying tables

Appending data to a table

Performing other table operations

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

Defining relations with the relation view

Defining internal relations

Defining the relation

Defining the display column

Foreign key relations

Foreign keys without phpMyAdmin configuration storage

Defining relations with the Designer

Over viewing the interface

Defining relations

Defining foreign key relations

Defining the display column

Exporting for PDF schema

Benefiting from the defined relations

Foreign key information

The drop-down list of foreign keys

The browseable foreign-table window

Referential integrity checks

Automatic updates of metadata

Column commenting

Automatically migrating column comments

Summary

11. Entering SQL Statements

The SQL query box

The Database view

The Table view

The Columns selector

Clicking into the query box

The Query window

Query window options

Session-based SQL history

Database-based SQL history (permanent)

Editing queries

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

Column 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 (internal relations)

Executing the query

The visual builder

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 Query 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

Passing a parameter to a bookmark

Creating a parameterized bookmark

Passing the parameter value

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

Adding a third table to our model

Producing schema pages

Page planning

Creating a new page

Editing a page

Exporting a page for display

Changing the font in PDF schema

Laying out a 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 Features Added in MySQL 5

Supporting views

Creating a view from results

Main panel and views

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

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

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

Managing users and their privileges

The user overview

Exporting privileges

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

Editing global privileges

Assigning database-specific privileges

Changing the password

Changing login information or copying a user

Removing a user

Database information

Enabling statistics

Sorting the statistics

Checking the database privileges

Dropping selected databases

Server information