This week I've been using phpMyAdmin for what feels like the first time in
years. I'm happier at the command line, but needed some graphical
representation of information and easy ways to export example
queries for the book I'm working on. I noticed that phpMyAdmin
now has a Designer tab, which shows relationships between tables
and allows you to define them.
If your table types don't support foreign keys, you can still
draw links in here, and phpMyAdmin will show the id fields as
links to the data they represent, which is quite a nice touch
(MyISAM doesn't support foreign keys). If your database does
support foreign keys, then I found this post which explained that you must have an
index on the column that will …
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