jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Sep 19 08:24:35 CDT 2011
OK, so basically I had to click the MySQL Console (the typical black console window) which then asked for a password, and once entered the phpMyAdmin is a menu choice. Thanks for you help in all this! John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com On 9/19/2011 12:14 AM, Stuart McLachlan wrote: > phpMyAdmin is part of the WAMP bundle. There is no need to instal it separately. > > Once WAMP server is running, it just sits and listens on Port 80 on your localhost (127.0.0.1) > ready to server up pages. Just open a browser window and type in "localhost" - you should > see the WAMP configuration page with a link to phpMyAdmin. > > Alternatively, you should also see phpMyAdmin as one of items under the WAMP icon in your > taskbar. Clicking on it opens a browser window pointing to the same link. > > Once your browser is pointing at localhost/phpmyadmin, you don't need to know anything > about PHP or web servers, you just get a simple interface which lets you enter the name of a > database and click "Create", followed by another screen which lets you add a table with fields > which you define in the much the same way that as you would in SQL Server Management > Studio. A row of buttons along the top of the browser window lets you select databases, > modify them, run SQL commands, import/export data etc, etc. > > With your knowledge of SQL Server, it should only take a couple of minutes to get the hang > of it. >