If a web-based GUI is better suited to your admin skills, Jack Wallen wants to show you how to back up and restore your MySQL/MariaDB databases with one of the easiest tools on the market.

Database accessibility is a key part of Web-based applications and dynamically generated Web pages, so PHP's creators have made the language particularly effective in this area. In fact, even ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of enabling configuration storage for phpMyAdmin to gain added security features for the web-based MySQL tool.