Editing Database

Create Database & Table

To create a new Database or Table,

  1. Highlight the database / table where you want to create it, select on root database to create a new database or select on database / table to create new table.

  2. Press the Create button at the middle of the main section.

  3. Configure database creation.

    • Charset available:

      • utf8mb4

      • latin1

    • Collation available for utf8mb4 Charset:

      • utf8mb4_general_ci

      • utf8mb4_unicode_ci

    • Collation available for latin1 Charset:

      • latin1_general_ci

      • latin1_swedish_ci

  4. The new database will be created inside the root database.

  5. Alternatively, press the Create button on the top right section while highlighting the database root. The database will be created inside the root database.

  6. To create a table, press the Create button at the middle of the main section while highlighting any database that user has created.

  7. Configure table creation.

    • Engine available:

      • InnoDB

      • MyISAM

    • Charset available:

      • utf8mb4

      • latin1

    • Collation available for utf8mb4 Charset:

      • utf8mb4_general_ci

      • utf8mb4_unicode_ci

    • Collation available for latin1 Charset:

      • latin1_general_ci

      • latin1_swedish_ci

  8. The new table will be created inside the highlighted database / on top of the highlighted table.

  9. Alternatively, press the Create button on the top right section while highlighting a database or a table. The table will be created inside the highlighted database / on top of the highlighted table.

Rename Database & Table

To rename a Database or Table,

  1. Highlight the database / table which you want to rename

  2. Press the Rename button on the top right section. and for table

  3. Enter a new name for the database or table and for table

  4. The new name will then be used.

Modify Database & Table Configuration

To modify a Database or Table configuration,

  1. Highlight the database or table which you want to modify.

  2. Press the Configuration button on the top right section. Please notice that configuration button icon for configuring database and table is different: and for table

  3. Change the database / table configuration For root database configuration these fields could be modified

    • Host

    • Port

    • Username

    • Password For database configuration these fields could be modified

    • Charset available:

      • utf8mb4

      • latin1

    • Collation available for utf8mb4 Charset:

      • utf8mb4_general_ci

      • utf8mb4_unicode_ci

    • Collation available for latin1 Charset:

      • latin1_general_ci

      • latin1_swedish_ci For table configuration these fields could be modified (Please take note that Engine cannot be changed from InnoDB to MyISAM after a table has been created and has foreign keys linked to it as MyISAM does not support foreign keys)

    • Engine available:

      • InnoDB

      • MyISAM

    • Charset available:

      • utf8mb4

      • latin1

    • Collation available for utf8mb4 Charset:

      • utf8mb4_general_ci

      • utf8mb4_unicode_ci

    • Collation available for latin1 Charset:

      • latin1_general_ci

      • latin1_swedish_ci

  4. Confirm the configuration change. The item configuration will then be updated.

Delete Database & Table

To delete a Database or a Table,

  1. Highlight the database or table which you want to remove.

  2. Press the Delete button on the top right section.

  3. Confirm the deletion. The item will then be removed.

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