I am new in database side,ple if u have any suggestions for me let me know ,and ple if u have any one database foundamentals ple send me.

My quction is i know data ,but i don’t no database and i don’t no table name. how can find databasename or table name,please help me

Kindly thankful

Thiru………

For me, I have a few blogs, or more like I have sites that uses blog engines but require modification.

phpMyAdmin helps me a lot by allowing me to browse the DB structure and also run SQL query here and there to test out the returned result.

With this, it’s not uncommon to see my sites having heavliy modified wordpress themes, and quite often modified down to even the core engine of WP.

It looks like a good product, but for a blogger, they only need basic use from their database. There isn’t much need for us to spend $99 on a database tool. phpMyAdmin covers what we need for free.

For example if your host comes with cPanel there are two ways to do this, one is the manual way through the icon entitled “Backups” and pick database backup there.

Another option is to do it through cronjobs so you can even set it to be run on whichever timeframe you desire, a topic which explains on how to do that to some extent can be found here. Although for most bloggers cronjobs will probably just make their heads spin .

So for safety sake, it might be worth making 2 backups? (One with BLOB as hexadecimal on, and one without). I’ll remember that, thanks.

So it makes it rather useless to make a backup as you can’t do anything with it. Doubt your average blog makes use of blobs though.

There’s not much need to it after all, blogs are mainly text. We dun store much else within our database. Whereas blobs are used to actually store binary, video and image files for example within the database. Unless you have any plugin doing that, there’s most likely not a single blob field within your blog to be found.

Also for command line backups that directly gives a reason though not to do daily fully backups with blobs on for that matter, you’re really not going to be thinking about several dozen or hundreds of megabytes in data but quickly running up into hundreds of gigabytes and even terabytes if you run for example a video site and store the data within a database. With old content not changing there’s no need to waste bandwidth that way then, instead simply backing up the latest only .

I looked into it, and found an explanation for what a BLOB is: “A BLOB is a binary large object that can hold a variable amount of data. The four BLOB types TINYBLOB, BLOB, MEDIUMBLOB, and LONGBLOB differ only in the maximum length of the values they can hold.”, but I couldn’t find any arguments on whether or not it should be enabled or disabled.

My guess is that in special circumstances, it should be disabled. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be on by default (I hope!)

Sorry I don’t have a good answer for you!

Abhijeet,
Another good example of needing to use the database. Well done for working it out yourself. You’ll be glad of the talent in future.

I found that I was safe and also spent some time exploring phpmyadmin and learnt new things. If there would have been a problem, then I would have taken no time in bugging my designer