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Create a Database .................................................

The phpMyAdmin main page

opens.

3 Click Databases.

1 In Windows, click the WAMP

task tray icon ( ).

2 Click phpMyAdmin.

On a Mac, you can access

it by launching the MAMP

application, then clicking

Open Start Page, then

clicking the phpMyAdmin

link.

Create a Database

T

he MAMP and WAMP installations include phpMyAdmin, a Web-based tool for administering your

MySQL database. Although its overall design is not ideal, phpMyAdmin is an easy tool for those

getting started using databases. MySQL is not a database, but is instead a database server: It is

software that manages a set of databases. Therefore, your first step in using it will be to create a

database. You can do this by simply typing the name that you want to use for your database in the

phpMyAdmin databases page.

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