WP-DBManager

By Lester "GaMerZ" Chan (http://lesterchan.net/)

• Why it's awesome: Quick access to your blog's database

• Why it was picked: Ability to run SQL Queries without phpMyAdmin

• Manual Install URL: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/wp-dbmanager/

• Automatic Install search term: WP DBManager

• Geek level: WP Ninja

• Configuration location: Top Navigation | Database

• Used in: Comments

Having a healthy database is instrumental in having a blog that's fast and stable. However, unless you're a database administrator, database optimization is often over-looked. With WP DBManager, optimizing, repairing, and restoring your database is a snap.

Understanding your database's health

If you're a database administrator, feel free to skip this page. For the rest of us though, it's important to have a basic understanding of databases and, specifically, how your WordPress's life depends on it.

What is a database?

At the highest level, a database is only a set of files that can be read and written to...