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Enabling advanced features on Windows

Enabling advanced features on Windows

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Enabling advanced features on Windows

- This course makes use of advanced features that require configuration storage to be enabled in phpMyAdmin. Configuration storage is a dedicated user account with its own database, which stores details of table relations, bookmarks, history and so on. Although the process for enabling configuration storage is very similar on Windows and Mac OS 10, I've created separate videos for each operating system. This one deals with Windows. If you're using Linux, you should be able to adapt the instructions for either Windows or Mac. The only difference will be the location of files. You can tell whether configuration storage has been enabled by looking at the list of databases in the column on the left. If you've got this one, phpMyAdmin, expand it and then, if necessary, expand PMA and you should be able to see about 17 tables, in there, each beginning with "pma__". If you've got these tables, configuration storage is almost certainly enabled. But there's one other way in which you could…

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