My Thoughts

Sometimes the update query needs to target a complex query and therefore you will need to use this. SQL Syntax: UPDATE      t1 SET      t1.field = value    FROM      t1     [INNER | LEFT] JOIN t2 ON join_predicate    .. WHERE      where_predicate; And MySQL Syntax: UPDATE t1 [INNER | LEFT JOIN] JOIN t2 ON join_predicate SET T1.field = value WHERE condition

This happened to me today. It looks like the license of my cPanel has run out and I need to access the database in urgent. Luckily the FTP access still working so I can install phpMyAdmin manually that way. However, being a lazy person, I found a quicker and less labour intensive. To open phpMyAdmin without cPanel, you will just need to open this link: http://www.yourdomain.com:2083/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/index.php Obviously, you need to change yourdomain.com to your correct domain and if your cPanel is on a different port, you need to change the port number as well, but other than that, the link should work.

With XAMPP when you have to import a very big mysql table, even though you have increase the script time in php.ini but sometimes it still does not cut the mustard. I found out another way to do this by going through the command line interface. For this example, I am going to use ms-dos in Microsoft Windows, however you can do similar thing with SSH. Navigate to your MySQL folder (by default it should be C:\xampp\mysql\bin) Run mysql.exe with this command: mysql -u yourusername -p yourpassword. Once you are in MySQL interface, then type use dataBaseName . If the dataBase is not set yet, run this command: create database databaseName; After the new database created, type use databaseName; To import, type: source pathToSQLData.  In PC, it will be something like source C:\xampp\htdocs\backup.sql It should start importing your data now. Extra tip: In the command line, you can do all sort of other things that you usually type in phpmyadmin sql section, it will be just fas...