On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Marc Delisle <marc(a)infomarc.info
<mailto:marc@infomarc.info>> wrote:
Le 2013-05-13 19:24, ayush choubey a écrit :
There were a couple of things that i wanted to
know
1) I was going through the this feature request
https://sourceforge.net/p/phpmyadmin/feature-requests/1387/
and i too wasn't able to figure out how to change database name. Has
that feature been implemented
Click on the database, then Operations. You'll find a dialog to rename
the database.
Well, i was thinking of adding a "export as" feature there for this
Feature request
that will take a name and thus generated sql file will have that
exported database name.
But i guess renaming it is better option.
2) while exporting the database there is no create database sql
statement
for example :
there is a db called test with certain number of tables. I
selected the
database, clicked on export, clicked custom and
exported it.
However only the tables were exported. There were no create statement
Shouldn't the entire database be exported with create database
statement? Is this a bug or was this not implemented intentionally
I guess nobody ever felt the need for this. The CREATE DATABASE
statement is generated when you export at the server level.
We have hierarchy in this fashion
Server->Database->tables
Now when we have to export a table, we click on export and we expect
that there will
be a CREATE TABLE statement and INSERT statement
But when we have to export a server there are just CREATE TABLE
statements and
INSERT STATEMENTS.
So, in case the user wants to export a DB named test and his target
machine has no test.
In this case he would like sql file to have CREATE DATABASE test
followed by tables
To achieve this he will have to go to :
server level -> click on export->select custom->select test-> export->Go
If we add one CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS at database export level, then
his steps would be
Select test->export->Go
From the user point of view, i guess, this will be much
more preferred as it has less number
of steps.