When working with databases it's common to use a database administration tool.
It can be very tedious to administer a database to command lines using terminal a popular tool designed
for this purpose is p HP.
My admin this free tool allows us to administer our database through a graphical user interface or g
y at the same time.
It preserves the ability to directly execute sequel statements to our database
BHP my admin offers many commonly used administrative operations.
This includes the ability to create delete and modify databases tables columns relations indexes users
and permissions we can also do many other tasks including importing data from CSB and sequel exporting
data in various formats.
Creating graphical layouts of our database structures this list is not exhaustive and the tool provides
many other features as well.
Since HP my admin is an open source tool it's very popular in the web development community.
There's a wide range of documentation and support available for it.
If you're taking this course is part of the web development master class.
You don't have to worry about installing P2P my admin.
It comes standard with our installation of web or men.
If you're using a map we've also already installed it on our live testing server as part of one of the
packages we configured during setup in a previous section to access HP my admin on your local computer
click on the web or map icon.
Make sure the server is running so the icon should be green from the menu select BHP.
My admin
and once you do that you'll see that BHP my admin launches in your web browser another way of accessing
BHP my admin is typing in this address local host slash BHP my admin and it'll take you to the same
admin area.