MySQL and PHPMyAdmin 1

Make sure your MySQL service is running Make sure your MySQL service is running. If using XAMPP, open the control panel. If the button for MySQL says Start, click it to start the service. 2

Open PHPMyAdmin (PMA) by clicking the Admin button or by navigating a browser to http://localhost/phpmyadmin 3

If needed, resolve the root having no password issue If needed, resolve the root having no password issue. I followed Method 2 found at http://veerasundar.com/blog/2009/01/how-to-change-the-root-password-for-mysql-in-xampp/ 4

Method 2 User='root' UPDATE mysql.user SET mysql.user.Password=PASSWORD('secret') WHERE mysql.user.User='root' 5

Restart If you have changed the root user password in two places, then you may need to close the browser, stop the MySQL server, restart the server, and return to the Admin (PHPMyAdmin a.k.a. PMA) page 11/27/2018

Create a new database by clicking on the Databases tab 7

Where it says Create database, enter a name and click on the Create button 8

Check your new database and click on the Check Privileges link 9

Under New click on the Add user link 10

Enter a username, change host to localhost and enter a password (twice) 11

Scroll down. Note the Grant all privileges on database “dbstatcapital” is pre-selected. Click Go. 12

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Note there are ten columns. This database will have a single table with state-capital data like that found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_in_the_United_States Let us say that we will use the Abbr. column as the primary key that will uniquely identify each row/record. Note there are ten columns. 14

Create a table to hold the data. Give it a name Create a table to hold the data. Give it a name. Select a number of columns and click Go. 15

Start filling in the column names Start filling in the column names. Make the Abbr the primary key under the Index drop-down. 16

Finish entering the columns. Enter appropriate types. Click Save. At first I thought Year was the appropriate type for StateDate and CapitalDate. But the dates were too early to be easily accepted at years. 17

Result of saved file 18

Add data by going to the Import tab. Browse for the csv file provided Add data by going to the Import tab. Browse for the csv file provided. Choose CSV from the format dropdown. Scroll down and click Go. Changed automatically for me 19

Result of import 20

Looking at results in Browse tab. 21