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Saving frequently used queries with bookmarks

Saving frequently used queries with bookmarks

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Saving frequently used queries with bookmarks

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- Earlier in this chapter, I showed you how to bookmark or save a Query by Example in the Query tab. We saved two, BMW Chrysler < 100000 and cars 2005-12. This feature has been available only since phpMyAdmin 4.2. But there's another bookmark feature that's also available in older versions of phpMyAdmin. To my mind, it's far more useful. Unlike these bookmarks in the Query tab which are limited to SELECT queries, the original bookmark feature can also be used with INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE queries. To use either type of bookmarks, you need to have enabled the advanced features in phpMyAdmin as described in chapter two. With the original bookmark feature, you first need to run the query. Let's switch to the SQL tab and I'm going to create a SELECT query that we would use to bookmark. So SELECT car_id, make, price, mileage, description, FROM cars, INNER JOIN makes USING, then in parentheses, make _id. And we'll have a WHERE clause where price is less than or equal to 10000 and we'll…

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