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Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management

You're reading from   Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management A complete guide to getting started with phpMyAdmin 3.4 and mastering its features book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517782
Length 394 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
1. Preface
1. Getting Started with phpMyAdmin FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring Authentication and Security 3. Over Viewing the Interface 4. Creating and Browsing Tables 5. Changing Data and Structure 6. Exporting Structure and Data (Backup) 7. Importing Structure and Data 8. Searching Data 9. Performing Table and Database Operations 10. Benefiting from the Relational System 11. Entering SQL Statements 12. Generating Multi-table Queries 13. Synchronizing Data and Supporting Replication 14. Using Query Bookmarks 15. Documenting the System 16. Transforming Data using MIME 17. Supporting Features Added in MySQL 5 18. Tracking Changes 19. Administrating the MySQL Server Troubleshooting and Support Index

Renaming, moving, and copying tables


The Rename operation is the easiest to understand—the table simply changes its name and stays in the same database.

The Move operation (shown in the following screenshot) manipulates a table in two ways—changes its name and also the database in which it is stored.

Moving a table is not directly supported by MySQL. So, phpMyAdmin has to create the table in the target database, copy the data, and then finally drop the source table. This could take a long time depending on the table's size.

The Copy operation leaves the original table intact and copies its structure or data (or both) to another table, possibly in another database. Here, the book-copy table will be an exact copy of the book source table. After the copy, we remain in the Table view for the book table, unless we selected Switch to copied table option, in which case we are moved to the Table view of the newly created table.

The Structure only copy is done to create a test table with the same...

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